Thursday 7 May 2015

When Fungus Isn’t Fun

The whole fungi family includes delicious truffles and mushrooms and yeast to make bread and beer.
Unfortunately it is the same family that gives us annoying toe fungus. It’s also the type of yeast that lives inside us but can escalate into thrush outbreaks.

The fungus we get on our toenail more frequently than our fingernails takes a long time to fully eradicate. Curanail is a product obtainable from the pharmacy that in many cases is the best form of treatment but if being used for the first time it is probably wise to have a professional opinion.

This is mainly because there is more than one type of fungus that can attack the nail. Curanail ingredients are the result of many years trial and error before the usual process before they can be sold on the open market.

Like any new medical product it had to go through a series of strict trials and years of testing before it arrived in the chemists and could only be sold with a doctor’s prescription.

This is the normal route in the UK for any of the products you eventually see in the pharmacy. After a number of anything between five and ten years it is assessed and reaches the point where it does not need a prescription.

It will still need to be kept behind the pharmacy counter away from the customer. The pharmacist can then sell at his or her own discretion.

Eventually if it passes all the tests it can be sold generally in any store off the shelf. Curanail is such a product although when you buy from the online store of the St. Georges Pharmacy you know that the business is run by qualified pharmacists.


The nail is a curious piece of anatomy as it is structured by the same protein that makes our hair as well as being a part of our skin. The fibrous protein is known as keratin and it is only the amount of amino acids that determine whether it turns out hard as a rhino’s horn or as soft as fine hair.