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!
" 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.
" 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.