Posts Tagged ‘toenail fungus’

Prevention Tips for Toenail Fungus

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012

Toenail fungus is a common nail disorder caused by a group of fungi called dermatophytes. The fungus affects both fingernails and toenail however toenail is more susceptible to infection. It provides favorable environment for the fungus to thrive and grow. The fungus thrives into the nail through wounds, cuts, and injury and fed on nail keratin and gradually destroys the whole nail. The condition is very annoying leading to nail discoloration, distortion, itching and jagged looks. Toenail fungus is contagious disease and therefore spread easily from one person to another. Therefore, toenail fungus prevention is really important to get rid of nail turmoil.

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Signs of Toenail Fungus

Friday, January 27th, 2012

Toe nail fungus is also known as dermatophytes due to its presence nail bed gets infected. In case this disease is not treated on time then toenail gets spoiled. This type of problem is seen in adults and in rare case in children. This type of problem is in general seen due to water, humid or hot temperature. Main reason of growth of fungus is thrive in moist regions like shower, beaches, swimming pool etc. (more…)

Listerine works in toe nail fungus treatment?

Monday, November 9th, 2009

Does Listerine helpful if I have toe nail fungus? Is it a natural cure of toe nail fungus? Does it have any negative effects? Is it reliable and inexpensive?

There are so many such queries have occurred in mind when I talked to my sister when she had toenail fungus. She is a college going girl and caption of her college cricket team. So she always used tight fitting shoes in her kit-bag. I always advised to avoid such shoes but she always denied it.

When she got the attack of nail fungus and her toes get affected than she trusted me. But she preferred medical treatment for this. At this time, I also stopped but she ignored and went under the medicinal treatment. But after a long period she didn’t get expected results, she depressed and had a lot of stressed. These are affecting her cricket carrier and her confidence level is going down rapidly.

Again, l given advised to move towards natural option in order to treat her nail fungal. But she didn’t trust me and had thought her nail could never treat. But when I motivated she become ready for natural treatment. I took Listerine (a powerful natural antiseptic) for her to get rid of toe nail fungus.

I advised to wash her feet using an anti-fungal soap at night. It really worked and made a huge difference. Now I poured a munificent amount of Listerine in a sink to cover her toe. Now she soaked her toe in the Listerine for 20-30 minutes. The time may be up-down. More time will give you quick results within a short time while short time will take a long period to give results. So it depends on you.

After soaking her toes, she dried without using any cotton. In the morning, I advised to use spray of Listerine. She did and applied under and top of the nail. And again, she lifted her as open till tried to air. She repeated this for a few days, after that she realized that her nail is growing normal, healthy and looking once again. I can’t express her happiness and my pleasure to help her.

So, I request to all of you, if you anyone has toe nail fungus, Listerine is all in one solution. It is purely natural, inexpensive and has no any side effects. It is absolutely helpful for every age group of male and female.