Six to nine million Americans are suffering from toenail fungus especially athletes as they tend to have higher rate of infection.
There's lot of toenail fungus symptoms to indicate that you had been infected. It may be cause by hereditary (genetic), natural aging process, fungus bacterial infections, poor circulation, some systematic disease, or perhaps due to injury. The toenail fungus start nesting under the nail and cause ugly discoloration along with crumbling effect.
This fungus (yeast) regularly affect their patient scalp, body, feet or nail which then become the main culprit for the most "uncomfortable looking" diseases such as athlete's foot, jock itch and also the most common among Americans; the toenail fungus. Imagine if your toenail fungus grow 1/4" in thick and curling, you have to take surgery to remove it. This will cost you a lot!
This is why you must keep your to nail clean all the time. Trim them as fit. If not, the fungus will start building their base underneath there. Always keep your feet dry and clean. However, there's no surefire way to keep the fungus away from your toenail. It also necessary to stop using toenail polish as it trap moisture under the polish and then can be the ignite spark for the fungus fuse to grow. When they start to grow, they will keep on growing!
Toenail Fungus Home Remedies
The nail fungus usually target your toenail rather the finger nail. This may due to the toenail normal condition where they are suffocated inside dark moist sock and shoes daily.
Before you waging your war cry toward the fungus, isn't it better to stop it before it start?. However, in case you start seeing some discoloring in your toe nail, you can try to apply Garlic Powder to that nail area. It may or may not be the fungus army, but at least you had prepare yourself to combat them and Garlic Powder may become the most important weapon of destruction that you ever need.
Further increase your arsenal with the Tea Tree Oil. This new treatment method has become quite a buzz for a while now. Also, consider Sporanox to be your weapon of choice as it the most oldest and the most used treatment to fight toenail fungus.
How about toenail fungus ointment or cream?. Well, for the first stage, when your toenail fungus just starting to build their "castle of freedom", it might be effective but as the fungus already establish the fungus kingdom, then the effectiveness of the ointment are not that reliable.
The best form of toenail fungus treatment is prevention. Prevention i spoke here not only applied for those who not been infected but also to other that had been infected.
If you're not infected yet, prevent it from happening.
If you had been infected, prevent it from spreading!
