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Boating and toe nail fungus


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Place your feet in Saltwater for an hour or so.... but if your feet look like the picture by ludricous, place your feet in boric acid!!!!!!

Saltwater is free, but here is a link for the boric acid!!! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boric_acid

PS: No guarantees, or medical help is provided by this post, if the consumer/customer decides to put his feet in boric acid, he assumes all responsibilities from hear on out. Saltwater is the recomendation but is not guaranteed.

DJW :1992_beer_cheer::rb-rules:

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98 percent of the people who have a nail fungus will take it to their grave irregardless of which treatment or therapy they use. The "cures" are only a temporay cure for a long term problem.

There are several problems with trying to irradicate fungus. Funguses are tuff to kill, it is hard to get medicine into the tissues that are commonly affected, and finally the fungus is a much faster replicator than nail tissue is.

Good luck

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The fungus infects the nail bed, i.e. gets imbedded throughout the tissue beneath the nail...

Topical agents have to first diffuse through the nail, then into the nail bed tissue, and then affect the fungal mycelium before the body fluids percolating through the tissues can dilute or carry the drug off... Too many barriers for certainty of treatment and the fungus is too deep for topical agents to be effective in most persons...

Oral drugs are the only effective treatment... They have drawbacks of course, possible liver damage and cost... Most have to be taken for 4 to 6 months without too many skipped doses, the one week a month until the infected nail has moved foward and been trimmed off... Then, when the nail is completely clear all shoes and socks have to be discarded and replaced with new - this includes waders, running shoes, etc... Most folks don't do this and after the antifungal has cleared from their body tissues (6 to 12 months later) get reinfected from exposure to the spores in these items... The other issue is infected persons in the house who are not concurrently treated will be leaving a cloud of spores everywhere they walk, like land mines in a war... Treating only one is always doomed to failure...

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one can remove the nail and the nail bed. that will cure it. the problem is only that one may leave a tiny bit of nail bed and that may cause a tiny bit of nail. but as long as the nail and bed is removed, the cure is guaranteed.

jan

I have heard of people using Vicks Vapor rub applied nightly, to the nails, for a period of 2-3 weeks. Smells pretty strong, but I know of at least one person who used this successfully.

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