OT-treating nail fungus with ethylene

Penlac worked for me once on a toe after multiple months. Then I got that stuff on TV foget the name perscription liquid. It worked. It was 500 plus for tiny tiny bottle. Used two of them. Doctor told me cure rate is 17% lol got a grand mind bending. Best prevetion throw out all your cotton socks…

It was Jublia was what I used. Crazy price. Bottle was half the size of my pinky and half empty when new.

Cost… you can’t get much cheaper than vinegar… and toxicity… well it’s on our healthy salads.

A middle toe nail got really thick. Dermatologist said there was no vinegar fix for it. Just clip it and file it.

Vicks Vapo Rub
It will cure toe nail fungus
but may keep all but your most devoted fans away

Problem is penetrating the nail. Vapor rub isn’t doing it.

@kayamedic said:
Vicks Vapo Rub
It will cure toe nail fungus
but may keep all but your most devoted fans away

I don’t have any foot sniffing friends.

@PaddleDog52 said:
Problem is penetrating the nail. Vapor rub isn’t doing it.
We tried it from hearsay.
Then we checked with primary care provider who said that over the long run it works.
You a doc? I know not all docs agree.

If it was working Vicks could repackage it and sell to make millions. It’s BS.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/staying-one-step-ahead-of-toenail-fungus

Claims 5 in 18 but I doubt it.

My insurance company didn’t spend 1200 plus with my doctor for Jublia if vapor rub worked. Jublia was months long process to work.

I’d rather try Vicks than antifreeze g y day.

This thread is starting to grow on me.

yup
Paddle Dog has not found the edit button
And I know what has worked for me
Why sid this thread rise from the dead?

@Sparky961 said:
This thread is starting to grow on me.

:smiley:

Propylene glycol is a non-toxic antifreeze and is used in some nail fungus meds, though I don’t know if its an active ingredient or just the solvent/carrier. And the bonus: you can also use it as an oral drench for ketosis in your pet cow.

@ said:
This thread
is extremely informative, but I wish we had those emoticon faces on this board cuz I’d use the green smilie barf face one at this moment.

Squeemish on the west coast sends…

So this :stuck_out_tongue: is not the one you were looking for to express your feelings on toe fungus? Are you sure? :stuck_out_tongue: How about this one :#

While things approved by the FDA are not 100% safe I would recommend going with any treatment that your doctor recommends over ethylene gylcol.

First of all it’s an alcohol that is an irritant and can macerate your skin providing another source of infection. The reason why it may kill the fungus is that it’s generally toxic and not as specific, so while the antifungals have some side effects, not that bad, and that can be monitoried easily, the antifreeze just dissolves and kills everything.

Look up “drinking antifreeze”. It’s not safe. In the quantities you’d put on your finger I don’t think it would be that bad but a fatal dose is not that much.

Also please look up “antifreeze disposal”. It’s considered a hazmat item, albeit a lesser one. At least put something in your body that was designed to be there, however side effect prone, versus something that is a known human poison.

That said I had a bad case of toenail fungus years ago because I was working long hours with big, thick shoes. Toenail fungus is due to excess moisture. Make sure you apply talcum powder, always wear socks, change foot wear at least once daily such that a pair of shoes or boots is never worn more than one day in a row and never twice per week allowing it to dry. By switching to Geox brand name shoes that “breahe” I basically cured my foot (and toenail fungus) problems without ever resorting to meds or creams.

A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. For your own sake please seek the help of a qualified healthcare professional!

Ten drops of gas and a match daily and it will be gone after a two week period. Puff!

@CA 139 You wrote:

" I basically cured my foot (and toenail fungus) problems without ever resorting to meds or creams."

You must have had a mighty wimpy strain of cootie if you could make it go away with just dry shoes and talcum powder. I think most folks get a tougher bug.

Fungi nail from Walmart.

@Rex said:
@CA 139 You wrote:

" I basically cured my foot (and toenail fungus) problems without ever resorting to meds or creams."

You must have had a mighty wimpy strain of cootie if you could make it go away with just dry shoes and talcum powder. I think most folks get a tougher bug.

No, it was the worst case of foot and skin fungus (not counting people that get inner fungal infections, I mean like septic joints, fungal meningitis, fungal abscesses, fungus in the lungs of different kinds and/or opportunistic HIV infections) I have ever seen in my nearly 20 year career as a physician. Most of my nails were involved which was one problem (onychomycosis) and a huge amount of the surface area of my feet was all red, scabbed, irritated, cracking and itchy being another problem (tinea pedis).

This was from working 24-30 hour shifts during residency while wearing clogs which were stupidly recommended to me by others glowing reviews who were not in my field and working my hours. I see the same type of problem in people who work long hours on their feet, especially if they keep wearing the same pair or two of boots or shoes.

The truth is that yeast is supposed to live in your skin and should not overgrow unless you subject that body area to excess enclosed moisture like wearing the same pair of moist shoes repeatedly. The meds will work short to intermediate term but these issues tend to be from an underlying cause which addressed can keep it from coming back which is what the ventilated Geox shoes did.