How To Cure Toenail Fungus Once and For All

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How To Cure Toenail Fungus Once and For All

Friday, June 12th, 2009    Subscribe To Our Feed

If you’ve been diagnosed by your doctor with toenail fungus, but are worried about starting a potentially risky drug treatment program, you’ve got lots of company. Millions of people just like you suffer from the same condition–commonly called onychomycosis, or for the rest of us, nail fungus.

How do you know if your nails are infected? A good way to start is by looking at their appearance. Are they yellow in color, separated from the underlying nail bed, or are they a bit crumbled or cracking along the edges? If this is what you’re experiencing, be sure to verify your condition by seeing a physician. Most physicians, not surprisingly, will recommend a drug-based treatment. But before you go with those, consider that you have options of the non-drug variety, as well. These are typically referred to as “natural” remedies, since they rely on non-manufactured ingredients.

Can natural solutions actually work? Absolutely.

Thousands of people are ridding themselves of onychomycosis every year. Keep in mind that this condition is one that requires months to recover some–governed by the fact that nails grow so slowly. However, if you can follow a simple daily routine, we’ve found, you may be able to successfully treat your condition using long-tested and proven natural solutions.

Do these home remedies work for everyone infected with nail fungus? No, of course not. Some, however, may be more effective than others. Possibly even as effective as costly drug treatments, though we haven’t been able to identify independent studies that could verify this. Some of the remedies that people have found to be especially successful include the following.

Treatment No. 1: Vinegar—The All-Time Favorite
There are any number of popular home remedies for toenail fungus, including tea tree oil, Vicks Vapor Rub, Listerine and more. But the one that seems to work most reliably is plain ole vinegar. Yes, the same ingredient your grandma used for everything from cleaning to cooking.

Vinegar has been shown to be especially effective as a relatively easy and inexpensive way to get rid of the most ingrained cases of nail fungus. The fungus spores start dying out as soon as they are reached by the vinegar, that’s how quickly it works. Plus, it’s very inexpensive. Unlike drugs that can cost you hundreds of dollars (rarely covered by your health insurance policy), you can pick up a year’s worth of common vinegar for less than $5 at just about any local food store.

But that’s only part of the story. You’ll also want to know how to apply this treatment, as well as critical steps you must take to prevent the fungus from returning. Many people have attempted to use vinegar, only to see it fail completely as a cure. In fact, some report that previously uninfected nails became infected and were soon looking as bad as the one or two originally infected nails.

This happens only when you use the wrong application techniques, and is easily avoided.

Others have tried vinegar a few days or weeks, then have stopped the treatment when they saw no results. Realistically, however, you have to give it a chance to do its thing on those hard-to-eliminate spores. Most proponents of the vinegar treatment agree that you need to stay with the applications for at least 3 or 4 months before you see improvement, while others reported seeing a healthier appearance to the infected nails in just a few weeks, possibly in as short a time as a month before you see a pink, healthy nail growing back in. Considering that it takes toenails a full year to grow out, it makes sense that any treatment will take at least that long for a complete cure.

One of the most comprehensive and best selling ebooks describing the vinegar treatment (and one other highly effective treatment) as well as the conditions that may have caused you to get the infection in the first place is “Nail That Fungus Forever,” available at http://www.how-to-stop-nail-fungus.com.