Home remedies · Mouth, teeth, eyes & feet
No home remedy here replaces treatment, and none is talked down. What has done good for generations does good — even if no one ever measured it. Where something is well studied, it says so. Where it is only experience, it says that too.
Dry after every shower, change breathable socks daily, air shoes between days.
Fungi need warmth and moisture. Removing both takes away their basis — more effective than any cream alone.
An existing fungal infection also needs a treatment, and for longer than until the symptoms disappear.
With diabetes or circulation problems take every redness and crack seriously and have it looked at.
To the doctor or dentist: facial swelling with fever, toothache with trouble opening the mouth, a knocked-out tooth — that is an emergency with a short window. For the eye: sudden loss of vision, severe pain, flashes of light. Sore places in the mouth lasting beyond three weeks.