Friday, December 11, 2009

Getting Rid of Nail Fungus

By Anna Latrobe

Nail Fungus is an unpleasant condition to cope with, especially considering that it can effect your nails on your toes and your fingers. The condition is caught by the fungi getting underneath your nail bed through a small crack or cut in the skin close to your nails.

Once you have caught the fungi the nail starts to discolor, the shine of the nail disappears and the surface becomes rough, the edges of your nail start to crumble and eventually the nail loosens from the nail bed.

The great news is that there are numerous options you can select to treat this condition, and you should do so as soon as possible, as it is important not to disregard this fungal infection as it will worsen if left untreated and it will proliferate, as it feeds on your nails and skin.

Certain people try to get rid of it by removing the nail, however this will not solve the problem, as when the nail grows back the infection will reoccur. Nail fungus is very contagious so you need to treat it right away as when you leave it, you put other people in danger of of contracting it and it can also transmit other parts of your body.

Remedies for nail fungus can be oral medications, or topical ointments, even though these may successfully treat fungus they can take from 6 to 12 weeks to work.

If you go to see your doctor and they don't offer you medication they may suggest removing your nail or using photodynamic therapy, which is form of laser treatment that kills the infection.

These methods of curing nail fungus although they are sometimes effective they can create problems. The problem being that whilst they stop the symptoms they do not kill the fungus, so often people find that the nail fungus reappears. Taking this into account it suggests that you need to find a treatment which builds your body's immune system, kills the fungus so that it doesn't return and doesn't have any bad side effects.

To treat nail fungus naturally you need to use a natural oil which has healing properties, the best example of this is tea tree oil, which when used in combination with botanical ingredients will permit you to be free from nails that are infected. - 14130

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