Nail Fungi

Nail fungi are actually more common than most people realize. Most people are probably familiar with toenail fungi such as that which causes yellow toenails they may not know that these fungi can also infect fingernails.

The best method of preventing the spread of nail fungi is cleanliness and disinfectant. This means that you should wash your hands immediately after touching or examining a toenail you believe is infected with fungi. It also means that you should clean your feet and hands regularly. Simply washing hands and feet everyday can get rid of nail fungi.

Washing your feet with a disinfectant after you go to wet and damp public places is a good idea. So is always washing your socks after you wear them, washing socks with bleach can help get rid of nail fungi. If you or somebody else in your home has nail fungi wash down the bath room with bleach or some other strong disinfectant.

Some Other Things You Can Do

Something else you can do is to soak your feet in a disinfectant that kills nail fungi if you have toenail fungus. Believe it or not one of the best liquids for this is a strong mouthwash such as Listerine.

Soaking feet or hands in vinegar mixed with water can kill also kill nail fungi. Treating your nails with natural cures such as oregano oil and tea tree oil can also work.

Not wearing nail polish and exposing hands and feet to the sunlight can also work. Fungus hate light so wearing sandals and open toed shoes with no socks is a good way to keep fungi away.

Treating Nail Fungi

If you think that you have a nail fungus infection you should go to the doctor right away. In most cases you will need to get medical treatment because nail funguses are strong and most over the counter remedies won’t work on them.

The doctor should be able to get rid of most nail fungi with antibiotics. You’ll want to go to the doctor fast because if you wait too long the only treatment available to the doctor will be removal of the infected nail. If antibiotics and other normal methods won’t work the doctor’s only recourse will be to remove the nail.

Nail fungi can be a very serious and painful problem. Fortunately medical treatment and some good old fashioned cleanliness can get rid of nail fungi or at least keep them at bay.