I am looking for an alternative to lamisil tablets to fight nail fungal infection. What can I use instead?
The lamasil treatment will take 3 months. Taking a pill every day for 3 months doesn’t sound too good. I don’t like taking a lot of meds. Is there anything out there that can defeat this nail fungal infection that won’t ruin my liver?
What can be done about fungal nail infection?
Because the fungus grows slowly, it can be hard to eliminate. Anti-fungal medications are available to combat fungal infections; however, they are strong oral medications that must be taken consistently for months in order to be effective. The medications also have potential side effects to other body organs (especially the liver, skin and/or bone marrow).
To monitor side effects your physician must order periodic blood tests (usually monthly) during treatment. Any of the symptoms (listed below) suggesting organ damage should be reported immediately to your physician.
Unusual fatigue
Severe loss of appetite
Nausea
Yellow eyes
Dark urine
Pale stool
Skin rashes
Bleeding
Enlarged lymph glands
Signs of infection
Unfortunately, anti-fungal creams applied to the nail do not penetrate the nail bed to kill the fungus at its source and are generally ineffective.
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How effective are medications at curing the fungus?
The anti-fungal medications usually suppress the nail infection when taken as directed. Unfortunately, they cannot guarantee a permanent cure. At least 1 in 5 patients, or 20 percent, will have a recurrence of the original nail infection at some time, making re-treatment with medication necessary.
You may want to search Yahoo!Answers for this topic (nail fungus, yeast infection), as it is asked regularly, and has gotten some great answers.
If you treat it from the outside in, you need a prescription from the podiatrist. That takes about 6 months, but does not use meds. To help from the inside out, eat plain yogurt about 3 times a week.
The most effective is the scariest, but fastest. Go to a podiatrist that will use a Dremel to shave your nail off. Then he will prescribe the stuff to keep killing the fungus.
Nail fungus is caused by yeast. This is also the same fungus that results in jock itch, athlete’s foot, Thrush (white tongue) vaginitis (in women), ringworm and other skin rashes. It is the Candida Albicans fungus (yeast).
For basic information on the systemic yeast syndrome, check out the link on the Welcome page of http://www.hufa.org.
I was afraid to take that medicine too. The doctor suggested a dreamel type tool to grind the white off the nails. It is an ongoing job unless you can throw out all your shoes. After grinding use a strong disinfectant on the nail . When wearing work boots put rock salt in for the day.