Re: Vicks Vapor Rub Treatment
Question for Ted.' I have read a lot about Vicks Vapor Rub for nail fungus. Have you any comments on its effectiveness?
The active ingredients that kills the fungus in the Vicks Vapo rub is the eucalyptus oil. The eucalyptus oil will degrade to a very weak form of hydrogen peroxide. Therefore using hydrogen peroxide 3% with vinegar would be a far more faster way to deal with it. Just today I suspect my foot was getting a fungus.
If I were to use this with vicks it would take me one week instead of 5 minutes. Under this fungus thing, the foot will have some irritation or skin problem or itchiness BEFORE a toe nail fungus starts. So what I did was wash my foot with 3% hydrogen peroxide and the fungus came off like mud! It won't do that if you just wash your feet with soap and water! A hydrogen peroxide and borax solution works too, and a hydrogen peroxide and vinegar works also. Both works differently. Borax works by alkalization, vinegar by acid. Most fungus are acid resistant, but often not in presence of borax. It should take no longer than 3 months maximum, instead of a year. My own experience has been less than a month. The source of the problem I found is that the shoes harbor an awful lot of fungus if the lining of the shoes are felt, clothed, instead of straight leather. It is best to avoid those shoe with felt or cloth otherwise I will end up peroxide treatment on the shoes endlessly. Of course doing the vicks vaporub will work but it takes more than a year from my own results (closer to three years) for it to bring results.
The Vick's vaporub is rather a mild therapy. A stronger one is to add 50% tea tree oil+lavender oil to the vaseline. This means 50% (tea tree oil and lavender oil) plus the 50% vaseline. This will be a more powerful mixture and should take it half as long. Still hydrogen peroxide protocol along with clorox and tea tree will often take a lot faster as per previous posting.
Columbia, MD
08/02/2008
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