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Fingernail fungus is a highly transmittable disease. One must keep nails clean and dry to avoid infection. The preliminary symptoms of this ailment is thickening of nails, changing nail color to yellow. Borrowing nail cutter from a person infected by fungus may inject the infection to your nails as well.

To prevent nail damage and ugliest structure of your hand it’s better to detect and cure fingernail fungus in early stage. It can simply be cured by Home remedies and also by medication. Few remedies are as follows:

• You can take anti fungal medication like Diflucan and Lamisil for few months. But it has some serious side effects such as acidity, rashes on skin, headache and it is also heavy for liver. By taking medication it will cure infection temporarily but once you stop taking dose it may reoccur.

• Topical treatments, cream or cleanser may help you to cure fungus but topical treatment alone is not so much useful to cure fungus.

• By applying essential oils like olive and lavender may help to cure fungus. You can also go for disinfectant herbs like Neem which is mostly found in India.

• Soaking the fungus area in the solution containing Epsom salt is also useful remedy.

Precaution is always helpful than cure, so always follow some good practices like wear socks while washing, always keep your fingernail dry to prevent Fingernail Fungus.