How to treat gray nails?

Gray nails are mostly caused by onychomycosis, which has a great impact on human health. So how to treat gray nails? Many people don't fully understand this. In fact, there are 6 folk remedies for treating it. The first method is to use fresh garlic, wash and mash it, and then apply it on the cleaned nails and the surrounding areas.

1. Folk remedies for treating onychomycosis

1. Garlic. Take fresh garlic, wash it and mash it into a paste. Then apply it on the nails and surrounding skin of clean hands. Wait for 10 minutes before removing it. Do this three times a day.

2. Impatiens. Impatiens also has the effect of treating onychomycosis. Take an appropriate amount of Impatiens, mash it, apply it on the nails, wrap it with clean gauze, and change it once a day.

3. Garlic and alum. Take purple garlic, wash and mash it, add some alum, apply it on the onychomycosis, wrap it with a clean cloth, or you can use plastic cloth, so that it is permeable and sealed, and change it every day.

4. Garlic and vinegar. Take appropriate amounts of garlic and aged vinegar, mash the garlic and put it in the vinegar, soak for a week, then soak the onychomycosis in the garlic vinegar liquid for 3 to 5 minutes, 4 to 6 times a day, until cured.

5. White vinegar. White vinegar has a good bactericidal and disinfecting effect and can be used to treat onychomycosis. After washing our hands, soak them directly in vinegar for 10 minutes. The vinegar should cover the nails. Do this once in the morning and once in the evening.

6. Take 500 ml of aged vinegar, boil and concentrate it to 150 ml, then add clean peppercorns (20 grams) and Sophora flavescens (50 grams), and soak for a week. After softening the onychomycosis with hot water, scrape the diseased part of the nail and then use a cotton ball to dip some medicine to soak the onychomycosis for about 5-10 minutes. Use it before going to bed every day until it is healed.

2. In the process of treating onychomycosis, we should also pay attention to the following matters

1. Patients should pay attention to keeping their skin dry. If the disease is on the hands, wash hands immediately after touching dirty things. If the disease is on the feet, pay attention to changing shoes and socks frequently, change shoes every day, and make sure the shoes are breathable.

2. Be careful to avoid infection. Daily necessities of patients with onychomycosis should be disinfected with boiling water to avoid infecting others. In addition, care should also be taken to avoid self-infection. If the hands are diseased, prevent foot diseases, and if the feet are diseased, pay attention to hand diseases.

3. Enhance resistance. The occurrence of diseases is related to the body's resistance. Patients with onychomycosis should also pay attention to enhancing their resistance, exercise daily, and have a balanced diet, especially ensuring protein intake.

4. In addition to onychomycosis, you must seek timely treatment. Don’t think that it is a minor illness and there is no problem. Onychomycosis is easily contagious. You must be responsible for yourself and others.