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| TOENAIL FUNGUS |
Hey friends. Today we want to talk about
fungal infections. Either toe fungus or toenail fungus or the other thing which
is called athlete's foot and really trying to figure out how to treat that
through natural means.
Treat Fungal Infections
Absolutely. Naturopathic medicine has many
different ways to help treat athlete's foot and fungal infections and it's not
just treated at the site but actually treating it throughout the entire body.
Usually, if we have a fungal infection on
the foot it may just be on the foot but it may also actually be throughout the
rest of the body and that may, it's also called candida at that point. Candida?
Which is like an overgrowth of yeast.
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Overgrowth Of Yeast
An overgrowth of yeast? So, don't name your
child that name. (Laughing) Doesn't even sound pretty now that you know what it
is. So, when, yeah, if somebody's coming in with an athlete's foot or a toenail
fungal infection it could be from the shoes that they're wearing.
So that maybe that they're in socks all day
their foot is actually getting sweaty and it's never actually getting that
chance to dry out. Fungus and yeast love hot, warm, wet environments and that's
why you see on the feet a lot of fungal infections.
So getting people into like shoes that are
more like airy so like wearing flip-flops I don't know you may have some.
Sandals, I mean switching your shoes on a daily basis as well, right? I mean
obviously, you do want to change, definitely your socks. If it's really bad
maybe twice a day, but at least once a day, right?
Cause Of Bacteria
Just to make sure that you don't fungal
infections growing inside the sock and the next day when you get into the shoe
with those socks on its going to cause you to have all that bacteria and all
that junk inside the sock that you don't want to have there but other than
that, making sure you can clean your feet and dry it in between your toes as
well, I find that's really important.
Just because if you don't dry in between
the toes and you start to kind of get you know all that flaking and the skin
opening up which can mean resulting in more infections getting into the foot
right because now you have open lesions and stuff. Yeah, and depending on the
age of the patient I also take that into consideration when I see people.
So, young people definitely have a lot
better circulation then as we get older and especially into our extremities.
So, I mean for the most part to keep us alive we need it most within our like,
our core but we also need that circulation down to our feet into our hands, and
if we're not getting that circulation that's also when we don't get that same
healing response and for wounds to take longer to heal if we don't have that
good circulation.
Circulation In Feet
Yeah. So again this is where I might
actually recommend, yeah, drying between the toes, making sure the feet are really
dry, putting on new socks and also doing foot baths and those foot baths if we
alternate between hot and cold it brings the circulation into the feet.
When we have that hot and then when we put
them in the cold water it contracts all the blood vessels to pull any of those
toxins that have come down or that we want to flush back out and get out of our body that cold constricts all those vessels in the feet and it allows it to
come back to the heart and then our body to actually like the process to get rid
of that this stuff that's no longer necessary in those cells.
So, alternating that back and forth between
the hot foot bath and the cold foot bath it can be very beneficial for bringing
that circulation in then contracting and taking it out along with anything that
we don't need and then bringing that circulation in and then closing it up
again.
Improve Your Sweat Glands
Yeah, the hot and cold foot baths are also
great to help improve how your sweat glands work just because of the fact that
you're training the foot to kind of be able to withstand hot and cold and then
allow the body to figure that out again. Oh, excellent, that's a great tip.
I also find that putting like tea tree oil
a little but not too much so that you don't burn the skin but a little bit of
tea tree oil in and it acts as an antimicrobial and antifungal. It's a really
strong kind of like natural medicine.
What’s About Diet?
How many drops per gallon would you
recommend? Maybe two or three. Two or three drops per gallon. What about diet?
An absolute diet is huge in this case. So, if we're talking about a fungal
infection or we're talking about any kind of like athlete's foot.
We're also wanting to treat the entire body
as if it's through the entire body we may not notice it like we do on our food
but it's really important to have really healthy nutritious foods and to get
rid of the things that the yeast feed on. Okay.
So that would be like simple sugars and
wheat again, because we can definitely, it just like ferments and wheat is also
made of yeast. Wheat and then simple sugars would be just the white sugar
basically?
Yeah, anything that's very like simple inflammatory,
anything that raises blood sugars if we have any like blood sugar dysregulation
that also causes yeast and bacteria to grow because they feed on those sugars
whether it be in the bloodstream or from the foods we eat.
Antifungal Drugs
Excellent, anything else you want to add?
No, I think that's it. If you have it it's so much easier to deal with if we
treat it early and then you don't have to go on as many kinds of like
antifungal pharmaceutical drugs and yeah so you can definitely prevent it and
treat it early and it's a lot easier to kind of get control of before it gets
out of control.