20 Ways To Get Rid of Toenail Fungus (Proven CURE & Home Remedies) 

Let us know know which remedy worked best for you, and WHY?

I had bad nail fungus for years. I ended putting on oil of garlic 3 to 5 times a day and before going to bed. In one month the two fungus nails fell off and revealed two healthy nails growing underneath. It was amazing.

Wanted to add two things that are working for me: drying the nail with a hair dryer after showering, and letting the nail get direct sunlight daily. Since fungi grow in dark, wet places, it makes since to do the opposite and do light and dry.

Castor oil worked for me. It was nice. Quickly absorbed and not messy

My toenail fungus (and thrush and dandruff) vanished when I started eating low carb/keto. Fungus loves carbs. Vegetables gave me diverticulitis and IBS.

Great advice. I have one more tip, but don't say it will work for everyone. I'm very fit, don't smoke, 22 bmi, 64 years old, and I got the fungus, 2 big toes from the gym, probably the changing room. I tried a brand name paint on liquid which did work to some extent, but slooowwwlyyy...lol. So talked to my fitness consultant (ok, not a podiatrist I know) and she recommended applying Povidon iodine once per day as she had anecdotal knowledge that it works. And boy did it work for me. It absolutely wiped it out at double the speed of the over the counter liquid. Now, maybe as I'm quite fit, and other factors helped it work for me, so not saying it's a miracle cure, but Povidon iodine is really cheap and might be worth a try. I think there even might be a colorless one if you don't want the temporary staining. It might help, however, listen to the podiatrists advice!

Love your channel doc. Wish more doctors were like you.

1. wash your hands don't spread fungus 2. trim your toe nails 3. file your nails 4. disinfect your nail tools 5. don't share your nail tools with family 6. get rid of infected shoe or socks 7. clean socks/ shoes wear mesh breathable shoes 9. breathable socks 10. no pools communal showers 11. good shoes right fit 13. home remedies 14. vicks, tea tree, manuka honey, listerine, soaks epson salt.😵🥴#17. see your podiatrist 18. oral medication 19. surgery 20. improve general health/ hygiene.

Thank you so much I actually bought a diy dremel tool and tool bit ground down my thick toe nail cleaned it all up and it worked I’m 71

I used Lamisil oral and it worked well. My liver hurt for years. I then tried essential oils each morning after a shower. Only a few drops on my dry feet Peppermint oil Oregano oil Eucalyptus oil Now my nails look beautiful

I thought I had fungi until I went to my doctor. Turns out my nail is just bruised. Hallelujah

Wow!!! Thanks. This was really informative. Great video!!

thank you for making this video, my family and i have had foot fungus for over 15 years and living in embarrassment we will share this information to the fullest for a healthy life

Wonderful advice ❣️

Thank you for this very informative video. I am going to get a head start on this before it gets really bad…..

Hi, thank you for the videos and explanations. When you are referring to filing the nail does this mean your would do it across the top surface of the nail, as well as the portion that you cut?

Tea tree oil, diluted in almond oil, one part tea tree oil to 10 parts almond oil. Applied in the morning and at night. Kills the fungus all the way in the nail bed

I just began searching the web for advice to cure my toe nail fungus. Loved your video. Your advice was basic and down to earth. Thank you Dr.Tom, I'm on my way to healthy toes,Lester

My Podiatrist recommended that I soak my feet in really warm/hot water with cheap black tea in it, 3 - 5 times a day. I couldn't keep doing it due to my disability. I have a new doctor I'll see soon in the city I'm now living in, about my fungus. We'll see what she says. Thanks for the informative video doc. 🦶👣

Great information!

Thank you 🙏 for explaining this so well !!! (Especially the part where you talk about how nail polish can cause toe fungus) Today I went to the doctor and she pretty much said that my fungus is very minimal and that for a solution,I should put “color nail polish” over it because it’s nothing to worry about, since she felt like it was more a “cosmetic thing”.😒( Never going there again)

I bought a 'traditional remedy" online that had 5 stars. I used it for 2 months - twice a day, and it worked. It took about a year for the bad nail to grow all the way out, but I could tell within a month it was working because new nail looked clear. I did it for 2 months just to be sure.

Fast forward to 10:00 minutes for the home remedies

I am a nail tech. I found this video very useful. Thanks Doc!

This was very well presented ! Very common sense. Thank you. Loved the part where you explained about great socks being " Out Standing " . Right up there with Fun Guy. Thanks again.

🤯 Mind blown Thanks for posting

Great Video; Doc I truly appreciate all this Sir.

You did a great job. I'm going to pass this on to my daughter she lost her large toe nail. Thank you.

Your videos are amazing, thank you so much for sharing, wish you were in TN

10:10 remedies

My nails grow very fast and i havent been looking after them very well abt 6 months ago i had my big toe w fungi and later i had 2 of my toes w fungi ive been so embarrassed of having my feet on show in class and stuff i will 100% use these tips tysm

I know this video was posted a while ago. I just want some people to know that most iodine has shellfish as an ingredient it might not say on the bottle but that might be why some people are allergic to it I myself do not use iodine that has shellfish in it. I found an iodine on Amazon that’s colorless and has no shellfish but it is a little bit more expensive. You get a lot more. thank you for sharing

I like your videos, those are really insightful. Anyway can u explain about brownish or darker colour skin and cuticles around nails? Thanks

I got this from my father when I was a kid. I’m about to be 42 I haven’t wore sandals or flip-flops since I was probably eight years old and I would absolutely love to because I am absolutely mortified by the size of my toes. I know my mom and dad when I was younger took Lamisil I believe it was but that can cause liver issues so I don’t want to do that and I desperately need this fixed and I’m Wheatus using toenail clippers I have to use wire cutters just to trim them and I feel lost. I’m not gonna lie. I really hope one of these home remedies work because I need help.

Probably the best, most thorough and honest video I have ever seen on this subject. I have done most of these things with minimal effect, buy for the last 2 months I have been using a Dremel on my nails to majorly thin them out and applying a 50% solution of Clorox bleach every morning. The results are amazing! My toe nails have not looked this good in decades!!!

Tea tree oil applied neat is pretty aggressive, and will flow into the hard to reach areas around the cuticle.

Your diet can feed fungus so cut off the sugars and carbs and let your feet see the sunshine and clean your shower where your feet soak and sanitize after showers spray it with cleaner and it helped me so much .

Good video

Peroxide soak and onion wrapped around the infected nail helps🤙🦶

I heard rubbing alcohol worked after you roughed up the nail surface. I couldn’t find rubbing alcohol anywhere, and the stores told me isopropyl alcohol was the same. Would you recommend isopropyl alcohol after ruffing up the nail?

Thanks!

Thanks for the fungi help

Σας παρακαλω βαλτε ελλημικους υποτιτλους🙂

Thank you doc!

Such good info thank you!! I just tried tea tree oil 2 days ago before I saw this video. My toenail is like 1 inch thick it’s so tall it’s so nasty and EMBARRASSING. No joke 1 inch high. The nail just fell off 2 days ago and so I applied tea tree oil . Wet, sweaty and too small shoes. Always had nice looking feet well not anymore. Will update. Thank you for taking the time to make this video!!

Neat tea tree oil , takes some time but it works .

What about shining UV-C Light on the toenail or nail fungus? Will that kill it?

I’m using uncolored listerin(soaking in one hour every day),it’s working slowly, but I see the result😀 …and you have to be patient because it takes months

can I try combination of treatments like natural and over the counter medication or will the mixing treatment be bad? or counter the over treatments?

Every time I get out the shower, I go underneath my nail and scrape out the fungus and then apply tea tree oil. I hope this will help. 🥺

Thank you

Please can u help .skin attached under my daughters big toe nail .please advice required

Should tea tree oil b diluted vid carrier oil or not b4 applying

thanks

ראיתי כמה מאמרים שלך ונישמעים מאוד מענינים. וחבל שאין תרגום לעיברית תודה

Michigan Foot Doctors, I landed here because I am trying to learn how to take care of a bare nail plate after a damaged toenail comes off. Could you make a video about that, please? I feel down 2 months ago and the nail got pulled back partially and it was damaged. It came off tonight. I thought I still had a long way to go, but it came off! Who do I take care of my bare nail bed. It looks kind of vulnerable. Help!

I cured my own and want to share how. Each evening (or every other?) I soaked my feet in the hottest water I could tolerate, after a few minutes when it cooled down a little, I added more boiling water from a tea kettle I had prepared. Got water back up to that point I could tolerate. Periodically took my feet out to dig out the fungus that had softened. At some point I added a dash of bleach to the water (maybe near the end of the soaking session). This was on my feet, and I had selected some chosen digging tools, what ever was small and worked well.

Thanks for that clever joke! And I am doing everything.. I weigh 105, am I live in a rainforest my feet rarely dry out, this is a problem for me. I am a healthy eater, very little carbs, no sugar and no smoke or drinking except lots of water. I also have..HAE/Type/1. I think the fact I have the genetic HAE may be why even with Epsom soaks, the tree oil and ciclopirox it never goes away on two toes. Okay so next.. I guess I’ll look for a podiatrist! Thanks again.

Has anyone found Vicks vapour rub useful? I’m just starting tea tree oil as a nail polish type treatment but not sure it’s having much effect. Would appreciate hearing if Vicks works thanks 🙏

It's best to file down the nails and also treat them topically, from the outside, if taking the oral medications to attack the issue from the inside. I tried clearing my toenail issues twice with oral medications. The issue came back because I didn't treat the issue from the outside also. Some of the infected nail remained after the oral treatments, enough to cause it to spread again. Looking back I should not have trusted the doctors wholly. I should have been addressing the issue from the outside at the same time that I was trying to treat it internally with pills. Best wishes.

I wish there was more specific information. Like what kind of disinfectant do you use to disinfect your shoes and hands and sheets? Even if you have new shoes, the same thing is going to happen, right? So what to do about that? How do you protect the uninfected toes? And I wish there were more specific recipes and information about how to use tea tree oil and vinegar and the other home remedies. And if I'm using my hands to clean my toenail fungus am I going to get nail fungus in my hands, how to prevent that?

u r a fun guy! 😁👍 thank u 💓

I need u for my treatments..❤

Toenail fungus is so hard to get rid of. Thanks for sharing this information. My nail fungus appeared on my big toe three years ago. I went to see a doctor who instructed me to use topical Loceryl nail medicine until the nail fungus disappeared. Loceryl contains the active ingredient amorolfine and I used it for over a year, which was of no help. I went to the doctor again, who prescribed oral terbinafine medicine. I have been taking terbinafine for 4.5 months now and the drug has been effective in nail fungus. There is only about 4 mm of nail fungus on my big toe and I will continue to eat terbinafine until it is completely free of nail fungus. My doctor estimates that terbinafine should be taken for at least 6 months until the nail fungus is completely healthy and no nail fungus is visible.

I have had fungus on the tip of my big toe nail and have tried everything. Finally I went to a podiatrist and she put me on Terbinafine for 3 months. I was only able to stay on the medication for 5 weeks. It caused me to have rapid heart rate, very scary. I also tried the laser, it didn’t work for me. So now I am just putting tea tree oil or iodine several times a day. Idk what else to do and I just have it on the tip, corner of my big toe.

Tell us what shoe spray to get!

You had me at fun guy 🤣🤣🤣

Urea cream and toe nail fungus liquid called fungi nail worked for me

Where in Michigan are you located? I live in Michigan as well

How many times can a nail regrow?

This dude is cool!

Mine is very early stages. I think it’s fungus? My two big toenails have orange on the sides of them. Mostly towards the front. Doctor said do Vicks vapor rub every day for two months and file the nail down. That’s it. So hopefully I’m getting this early. He almost even seemed annoyed that I was suggesting. I need to do something to treat it lol. He said, I pay attention to symptoms more than other people. But it’s like you said, Better to get it before it turns into something worse. He’s probably just used to people coming to him when things are already bad. Is it true that I shouldn’t worry about using the same towel for my feet as I do for the rest of my body after a shower? Somebody said I need a separate towel. But from my understanding, if I was going to get fungus on my face or the rest of my body, it already would’ve happened by now if it’s only on my feet. Especially when I am addressing it right now wearing Vicks. I’m also once per week, applying my Clorox bathroom cleaner gel for a couple minutes before I start my shower. Also, they say it takes a year to grow out a toenail, but after my doctor visit two weeks ago, I trimmed the toenails. Then yesterday they were already long enough to where I needed to trim them again. And I mean it’s looking like the toenail clipping in your video, it’s not just a little bit. It was a normal amount. So I guess my toenails grow fast. But I was excited thinking I was going to be able to just trim off most of the orange. And I guess I did but I look at them and they still look orange. Does this mean I’m not getting proper circulation for my immune system to fight this off properly? My left calf is missing hair on the left side of it. Like mostly all gone. And I have bad varicose veins there. The doctor said he’s not worried about it. Excuse me? And I even told him my feet get cold or sometimes they feel like they are cold but they’re not actually cold. He was trying to shoo me out the door and he said well if we want to talk about that more, we will have to do another visit. After he literally just told me he’s not worried about it and I’m too young to do tests about my circulation. I just don’t see how these could not be related. I also told him how my fingernails, you can see the vertical lines on my fingernails when you couldn’t before. He just said that’s hard to diagnose. He didn’t really wanna talk about that either. I wasn’t trying to give him a list of things to worry about. I was trying to let him know all of my symptoms, so if there were any links, he could try and find them. I also have low TSH And it’s been low the past three times. I’ve done blood test. And it’s gone lower each time. But he swears my thyroid is fine because T4 and T3 is normal. Anyway, I don’t have blue toenails or anything. It’s just orange on the edges. It’s been going on for a few months. And now it looks like there is some black on the edges. Or at least a little darker. But when I put my fingernail under the toenail, to kind of lift it up a little bit, the toenail looks white. So maybe it’s under the toenail. It might just be gunk. Because now I use a toothbrush on my feet in the shower. Well, my big toes mainly. But the problem with that is I think the bristles getting in between the nails, is pushing the gunk deeper, I guess. I say gunk, but it’s not like this horrendous thing. I take care of myself, probably more than other people do to most people my nails probably just look like normal feet. But normally I can put my finger nail under there and scrape out gunk in the shower and everything is good. It seems like lately it feels like the sides of my toenails are glued to my toes. I thought it was weird that my doctor told me to also file my nail every day. I’m definitely not going to do that every day. He didn’t explain why. But now, after hearing that people, with bad cases have super thick toenails, come to think of it whenever I trim my toenails they do kind of feel extra crispy. I always thought that was weird like due to lack of circulation but maybe it just means the toenails are starting to thicken up a little bit. So I bought a pack of like 20 files for like two bucks. So I don’t really use any of them. Maybe a couple times a week I just file the nail down a little bit.

You don't need to go vegan to get super healthy. Keto meat lifestyle works great if you need to lose weight. Key thing is to cut out sugar and reduce carbs, use intermittent fasting to really lose the weight. Trimming, filing the nails and using white iodine and Vicks vapour rub gets results. The process can take months but stick to it. Great video - thanks.

Do you dip your toe into bleach just once, and the fungus goes away in a week, or do you dip your toe into bleach every day for a week?

I'm sitting here in embarrassment cause it's been 5+ years and I e tried every OTC possible, I don't get my feet done anymore ,I definitely tossed every open toe shoe I had, this video gives me hope. thought they would eventually have to take my toes 😢

What about U.V. light on the nails.??

I was just speaking to my father, who has toenail fungus on both feet, quite bad, or did at least. He has now cured it on one foot, and it's clearing on the other. He uses a UK product called Germolene cream. I don't know the ingredients, but it is an antiseptic cream, so maybe any antiseptic cream would work? It does make some sense, because antiseptics are supposed to prevent the growth of different microorganisms like bacteria and fungus. I looked up Germolene and toenail fungus on Google, and couldn't find a thing, other than one post, that looked genuine from someone who said it cured them. My dad applies it every three days, under the end of the nail after trimming them a little. I guess he could do it more often, but he showed me his foot and it looks 100% clear, the other foot still has it, but he says it's improved like the other did. Now one foot is clear, he's sown a little thread onto certain socks to mark them, so he doesn't wear the socks from his infected foot on the clear foot. And he puts a little antiseptic cream on the nail clippers after using them. I also have it on one foot, so I might try it, see if it works. It will take months to cure though, his did, I guess because you can only really hope to slow it down, stop it's growth, and wait for healthy nail to grow. I'm gonna copy and paste this comment and repost it on other videos, because it has worked for my dad, I've seen it with my own eyes, so I'll spread the word, good luck with it! One thing I would add, fungus likes moisture and darkness, he doesn't take his socks off much, or wear sandals inside, but I think that would make sense to do as well as keeping nails short, and using the cream.

I'm going to start showering with a waterproof cast-protector to always keep the foot dry and apply Lysol Disinfecting Spray and Gold Bond Medicated Foot Powder to my shoes and socks. As far as treatment, any thoughts on this daily regimen: 1) Cut nail as short as possible 2) sand down the top of the nail with a dremel / electronic-foot-file 3) Soften nail by soaking it for 20 minutes using: 1Tbsp Epson Salt + 1/3 Cup Water + 1/3 Cup White Vinegar + 1/3 Cup bleach + 1 tsp Yellow Listerine (Thymol) 4) Then Thoroughly Dry Nail with hair dryer, or use a heat lamp or even fire from a lighter (thermotherapy) 5) shine UV light with one of those (covid?) sanitation devices. 6) Mix as much BAKING SODA as possible to Vaseline+VicksVaporRub (Thymol) and apply this paste to the nail 7) Apply 2 Drops of Iodine (Decolorized Povidone) + Tea Tree / Oregano / Clove / Garlic + Lavender Oil + Pro Clearz Toenail ‘polish’ (contains 1% Tolnaftate) 8) Gently wrap to prevent any water contact

Massaging petroleum jelly into nails and feet works brilliantly for this condition

Home rememdies mentioned: Tea tree oil, manuka oil, oregano oil, vinegar, garlic, listerine, vicks vaporub

I literally spent the past hour cutting my toenail off. It didn't bleed at all and didn't hurt, however there still is some white stuff left. I tried getting that ctap off but nah it hurt.

I had fungus under my thumbnails, rubbed Vicks on them, and that got rid of it.

I’ve tried everything out there to get rid of toenail fungus including podiatrist advice, tablets and expensive paint on ointments and the only thing that works and costs practically nothing is tea tree oil and filing my nails down. This simple technique is little known possibly because there’s no money to be made out of it. Good luck.

Try using vinegar, i justed use / 1 part vinegar and 2 part's of water so far it seems to be working do for 15-20 minutes a day and best of luck i had this problem maybe close to 10 years or longer on my feet and my hands too it started on my feet first , i hope i get rid of this fungus problem

I have to regularly rip off my nails at the base from the bedding because it only rots the top half..so my big toe is bloody and I have to tolerate torture literally.. I have read and watched the bleach Idea as well as garlic.. didn't work with garlic btw

I noticed that the time I had semi permanent nail varnish put on my toenail with UVA lamp my fungus disappeared!!

I have noticed my toes are red , painful, red, swelling. It is very uncomfortable. I started to read all these remedies, I am very stressed out about it. It is very uncomfortable at night . I am a healthy person , not sure why I got it . 😢

Mine is worse and am just 19😢😢

It was the pics of the toe behind him for me 🤭

I have a preexisting condition im 70 and my big toenail is falling off. I just got over the flu and now this.

The Only Thing That Worked For Me after 20 years of infection is Low Carbs Diet (Fungus Like Carbs) and IODINE 5%. It literally Destroyed My Heavy Tonail Fungus. Yes I trim and file my nails. One single drop each day for few months cured my 10 toenails. I’ve been consulting doctors tried many prescriptions oral topical. Iodine cost 2$ and it’s really good. Much better than exilor pen presented in this video.

Can lamisil cream cure toenail fungus

Eucalyptus essential oil works. I put 1 drop on each nail twice a day. It took about 20ml. Can't say how long it took. Tried Tea tree essential oil which helped but did not cure it.

I walk a lot. Big toe hit shoe, bruised, and eventually separated with another one growing underneath. It grew back ugly and some of the others started to thicken.. Finally went 2 months ago to a podiatrist who took a clipping and sent to a lab.. Came back no fungus or cancer. Prescribed 40% urea and sent me along my way. Since then one of my good nails started itching around the cuticle, turned black and fell off with blood underneath. Now my right toe is starting to itch and has a grey cast to it. Getting really getting frustrated. What should I do now?

What disinfectant is best and safe to you in shoes, please? Lysol spray or diluted bleach, does vinegar work ?

How to disimfect the shoes?? Thank you ❤

Lugol's solution works in one treatment

this guy's a certified dad

I got three toenails removed about four months ago and the toenails grew back with fungus. What did I do wrong? Any advice? I was applying topical lacquer to the skin where the toenail should be and still nothing has worked.

What about seawater.?