Best fungal nail treatment - Page 2 (2024)

gettingtheresometime Posts: 6,911 Forumite

29 April 2018 at 1:11PM

4 May 2018 at 5:25AM

Greylocks Posts: 65 Forumite

12 November 2018 at 3:21AM

In reply to op:

Diagnosis of a fungal nail is not straightforward. But if you think it is fungal and is only present at the far tip of the nail then consider treating the skin as the first priority. There is a possibility the fungus will grow out of the nail.
To treat the skin: use lamisil cream every day for one week, repeat once a month.
A topical nail treatment might help as well, eg. Curanail.

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Pollycat Posts: 35,148 Forumite

8 January 2019 at 7:23AM

edwards142 Posts: 2 Newbie

6 March 2019 at 9:31AM

Have issues with both big toes – the tablets from the docs didn’t do anything. Just to describe how bad it is – my left nail is very brittle and grows but is so thin it breaks off very easily – pretty much no real toenail to speak off, there is then something else underneath the nail that almost peels off in strips. Right nail is not attached to toe but is pretty thick – both look hideous.

Finally, I treated it with the help of some OTC medicines and application of natural remedies regularly. And also realized that I needed better shoes that didn’t give me sweaty feet. I chucked some old shoes out, bought some leather soled and upper shoes and wore those as much as possible, and sprayed athletes foot spray into any old shoes I kept to kill the fungus spores.

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6 March 2019 at 9:45AM

I recommend Emitrix. My other half has very bad fungal nails and with this they’re slowly improving.

Also, as others have said, treat your shoes with antifungal powder, and your feet with something like lamsil once.

georgewhittington Posts: 4 Newbie

21 May 2019 at 7:15AM

A.Penny.Saved Posts: 1,832 Forumite

21 May 2019 at 2:56PM edited 21 May 2019 at 3:03PM

I tried all over the counter items for athletes foot and none would clear it.

I used lugols iodine in a small finger/thumb pump hand spray bottle and it cleared it in a few days like magic.

The biggest problem was lugols is brown and can stain everything! Therefore it needs to be used cautiously ie not getting it onto the floor/carpet or towels etc. I used some plastic to protect the floor.

I never tried it at the time because I did not have any but potassium iodide which is clear and sold as crystals which needs to be mixed with distilled water

have a similar effect without the risk of staining. I do have some now but the athletes foot has never returned in well over 2 years so I have never been able to verify that potassium iodide works as well.

Fungal infections of the nails depending upon how deep it has got, could be harder to clear and might require more persistence.

Potassium iodide might be a good option to destroy the fungus inside socks and shoes by washing in a potassium iodide solution which will not stain the shoes/socks etc. If you fail to destroy the fungal spores then it could come back!

MoneySaver123 Posts: 62 Forumite

23 June 2020 at 4:49PM

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23 June 2020 at 5:32PM edited 23 June 2020 at 5:33PM