Has anyone actually cured toe nail fungus with Star-San?

[Jolly McStanson]

You know as I'm sitting here at the computer on Home Brew Talk. I could be soaking my feet / toe nails in Star-San. Its just that its so cold in my house. Its winter and all and when my feet are cold...im cold. Flip flop season is quite away off anyhow.

 

[buckeyebrewer]

get the turkey fryer out and get the foot bath going......

 

[AnOldUR]

Can StarSan fix this?

 

[BioBeing]

Fungal infections of the nail can cause discoloration and abnormal growth

FUNGAL INFECTIONS (ONYCHOMYCOSIS)

When a nail infection develops, the most common cause is a fungus. More frequent on the toenails than on the fingernails, fungal nail infections affect about 12% of all Americans. Onychomycosis tends to run in families because of an inherited tendency, but not everyone is susceptible. It is rare in children unless one or both parents are infected.


The two most common types of fungi affecting the skin are dermatophytes and yeast (Candida). While both types infect nails, dermatophytes tend to be more common in toenails. Yeast infections are seen more frequently in fingernails. While some fungal nail infections may respond to topical antifungal creams, lotions, gels, and lacquers, most infections of the nail plate require oral medicines such as itraconazole, terbinafine, and fluconazole.

Nail Fungus & Nail Health

I doubt it would work. Might be OK for athletes foot though... I tend to get that.

 

[BioBeing]

And from the Mayo clinic

Treatments and drugs

Nail fungus can be difficult to treat, and repeated infections are common. Over-the-counter antifungal nail creams and ointments are available, but they aren't very effective.

Oral medications
To treat nail fungus, your doctor may prescribe an oral antifungal medication, such as:

* Itraconazole (Sporanox)
* Fluconazole (Diflucan)
* Terbinafine (Lamisil)

These medications help a new nail grow free of infection, slowly replacing the infected portion of your nail. You typically take these medications for six to 12 weeks but won't see the end result of treatment until the nail grows back completely. It may take four months or longer to eliminate an infection.

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Lifestyle and home remedies

Sometimes, because current treatments can take a long time to work and aren't always effective, people turn to home remedies. Two remedies purported to help nail fungus infections are vinegar and Vicks VapoRub.

* Vinegar. While there's no direct evidence that a vinegar soak can cure nail fungus, some studies have shown that it can inhibit the growth of certain bacteria. Experts suggest soaking your feet for 15 to 20 minutes in a mixture of 1 part vinegar to 2 parts warm water. You can soak your feet like this daily. But if your skin becomes irritated, try soaking only two to three times a week, or increase the amount of water in the mixture.
* VapoRub. As with vinegar, there have been no controlled clinical trials to assess the effectiveness of Vicks VapoRub on nail fungus, but there have been numerous anecdotal reports that it works. However, there's no consensus on how often to apply this product, so check with your doctor before using this product in a way it wasn't designed to be used.

 

[Jolly McStanson]

OMG!!! I must not have toe nail fungus because my toe nails dont even look like that. EEEEEEEWWWWW man.

 

[AnOldUR]

OMG!!! I must not have toe nail fungus because my toe nails dont even look like that. EEEEEEEWWWWW man.

Hey . . . but them's me tows! Can em be fixed?

 

[BioBeing]

OMG!!! I must not have toe nail fungus because my toe nails dont even look like that. EEEEEEEWWWWW man.

It doesn't have to look that bad:

 

[bell0347]

Ok, first of all this is just kinda gross and weird. The absolute last topic and place I thought I would be talking about this. However, I did have toenail fungus for a few years and was highly embarased. I finally made my mind up to kill it and did. Star-San would definitaley help. It is a broad spectrum antimicrobial. Soak in it a couple times a day or soak a cotton ball in it and wrap a band aid over it on top of toe nail while you sleep. Keep it well trimed, filed, and take your shoes off as much as possible. Change socks mid way through the day and spray lysol or something in your shoes every night. Go to Dr. and get the pills to cure it. You can't have liver probs. though as the medicine is hard on your liver. They say it can take a year or so to kill it, with aggressive treatment my went away in a couple of months.

 

[Jolly McStanson]

It doesn't have to look that bad:

Ya thats closer to what I have, lololololol:rockin:

 

[mgo737]

dermatologist here. Need oral terbinafine (lamisil) for toenail fungus. Not actually hard on liver. Though very rarely, can cause liver probs. Most docs check baseline just to be sure... Topical treatments do nothing for nail fungus.

 

[farmist]

Pharmacist here. +1 on oral Lamisil. It is generic now and a lot cheaper than it was. VapoRub is used for everything anymore and is the new 'tussin' or windex, however it is only good for one thing: rubbing it on your chest for clods. Although it is also good for rubbing under your nose right before you change a diaper.

 

[alex_wilkosz]

vaporub is also good to put right under your nose when you want to run away from someone with some scary **** on their feet

 

[Papinquack]

Dr. Papinquack here, I'd slice a clove of garlic and tape it to the affected toe nail. Seriously, my daughter was plagued by a plantars wort a few years back and if you've ever had one of those you know the discomfort they cause. We took her to the Dr. and continued to do the acid scrape as recomended by traditional medicine. Anyway, this method did nothing for her over a period of about 2 months, it just pissed us all off. Knowing the healing properties of garlic, I rubbed the wort with a little olive oil, sliced a clove a little thicker than a penny, then placed the garlic on it and taped it to her foot, put her sock on and sent her to bed. She woke up the next morning and it was totaly gone! No bulls**t.... If you try this just use straight garlic, the olive oil was only used to tenderize the area, you wont need that with a nail. Good luck!

 

[Jolly McStanson]

I'm going to try the garlic just to see. My liver is taking a beating with all my beer drinking and it doesn't need to process any more toxins, lol.

 

[bob1852]

when the fungus hits -- you hit back with, BOOM!, tough actin' tinactin.

~ John Madden

 

[nibiyabi]

I've only read the first page so this may be an out-of-date answer, but I doubt it will work -- external anti-fungal treatments tend not to work very well anyway, so I'd recommend it in pill form. Ask your doctor during your next checkup.

 

[bracconiere]

I've only read the first page so this may be an out-of-date answer, but I doubt it will work -- external anti-fungal treatments tend not to work very well anyway, so I'd recommend it in pill form. Ask your doctor during your next checkup.

i was actually looking for "what i'm listening too now", but i like zombies, or at least a friend of mine does...so i'd say when i washed dishes and had my hands in sanitizer for 6-8 hours a day, cleared up my worts, planters on my finger, and even one that kept coming back on my elbow...

 

[Dave Sarber]

Sea water soak. Great for pimples too. But bodysurfing abrades your nipples.

 

[bracconiere]

damn it google....i just thought it'd be funny, people like the walking dead!

 

[RPh_Guy]

 

[bracconiere]

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homebrew is the best!

 

[Miller4]

Fitting zombie thread. I had some serious toenail fungus that I tried to get rid of with topical stuff. What finally got rid of it was trying to high jump in shoes that were three sizes to small after not high jumping since college 6 years ago. A couple weeks later the toenail fell off and now it is growing back without fungus. So that’s my recommendation.

 

[IslandLizard]

Thanks to all for posting. I just threw up in my mouth 8 times.

To prevent more of this, hopefully, I've moved the thread to General Chit Chat.

 

[tellyho]

At the risk of taking this zombie thread seriously, while I haven't used star San, I have used iodine. Worked great, if messy.

 

[Pkrd]

You won't believe what happens when you rub a little Kveik on your toes every night before bed!

 

[Soulshine2]

In order to cure toe nail fungus you have to take medication and sometimes that doesn't even work. Well I have have the fungus and I dont ware flip flops any more because my toe nails look disgusting.

Iv heard that Star-San cures the fungus.

If I have to soak my feet every night in Star-San I will if I know it will cure it. Has anyone tried it or had any luck?

go buy some CHEAP vodka...and a bucket ...pour vodka in bucket, soak your feet. I've read numerous times that it works.

 

[Soulshine2]

I heard B-Brite makes your p3nis longer. I've been soaking mine in it for 10 minutes 3 times a day for a month now and nothing yet.....................

reminds me of a joke - guy goes to his dr and asks what he can use to make his penis larger. Doc says go to the grocery store and buy a tub of lard, rub it on twice a day for a month and come back and we'll see how it went. Guy comes back a month later ,doc measures it and its smaller...Doc says this can't be I gave you sure fire method that always works ,what did you do wrong...Guy says ,well, I couldnt find lard so I bought Crisco .
Doc says well that explains it, Crisco is SHORTENING !!

 

[smata67]

Back in about 1995, I had a very bad case of toe nail fungus on my left foot big toe. Entire toenail turned gross and basically fell off. I was hiking a lot at the time and this put a real damper on that. I had Kaiser Permanente, an HMO, and they somehow decided to cover the treatment. I had a real good nurse practitioner back then, she somehow swung it, because I was hearing cost for treatment was about $1500 and I basically paid nothing. Wiped out the fungus completely and 24 years later have never had a relapse or any trace of fungus issues on my nails. I keep checking, though. Anyway, I beat the system that one time and I would recommend the drug I got, Sporanox. It did the job and is probably somewhat cheaper now. Probably can get it on Amazon. I don't remember having any side effects at all from it, but I was a strapping young man in his 30s then. A bit older now.

 

[JimRausch]

Can't believe I'm contributing to a TOENAIL FUNGUS thread!
Had a bad case on about 1/2 of the nails on both feet. Wasn't going to pay the +/- $900 for the oral stuff (which says 75% effective and takes about 9 months), so bought a bottle of Tea Tree oil on Amazon for about $9. Every night I applied a dropper full to each toenail. Took that same 9 months, but it did clear them up completely. And I used the $ saved to buy brewing supplies!