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	Home Remedies For Fingernail And Toenail Fungus Infections

If you are suffering from fingernail and/or toenail fungal infection, it can become very embarrassing, as you cannot prevent others from noticing your infected nail. Hence people hate this fungus. The infected nail is thicker than the uninfected one and is either yellowish or brownish (sometimes blackish) in color. The fungus can also infect the nail bed and cause inflammation and pain. The main reasons for infection is decreased immunity [AIDS, old age] and presence of factors supporting the growth of fungus like damp hand, tightly fitted glove. The best remedies to treat fingernail fungus infection are the home remedies that we discuss here.

Home remedies for fingernail fungus infection are very effective and have been used for a long time. Fingernail infection is not a modern disease. It has been around for over thousand years. Our ancestors used home remedies for fingernail fungus because the science in those days was still in infancy. Moreover the drugs used today have adverse side effects and are quite costly.

One of the effective home remedies is to soak the infected fingernail in a solution that destroys the fungus. The solutions normally used for this purpose are: diluted vinegar, bleaching powder, and hydrogen peroxide.

Keep on soaking until the fungus infection is completely cleared, as it can take some weeks or even months. For quick results, try thinning the infected finger nail, to allow higher absorption of the solution.

Tea tree oil is one of the highly popular home remedy used to eradicate fingernail fungus. This oil is obtained from the stem and leaves of the tea tree of Australia. This oil has been scientifically shown to possess very strong antifungal properties. Apply this oil directly on the infected fingernail. This tea tree oil penetrates the fingernail far better than any other oil and promotes healing by killing the fungus. You can get tea tree oil either in the pure form or blended along with other ingredients.

Another effective home remedy for fingernail fungus is antifungal mud [saprox] from Czech Republic. Like the tea tree oil, you can apply this mud on the discolored fingernail. For better results, soak the fingernail in any of the solutions like hydrogen peroxide, bleaching powder along with applying the mud.

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