# Chlorine and toenail fungus.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlorine-and-toenail-fungus/546976>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [July 17, 2010, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlorine-and-toenail-fungus/546976 "2010-07-17T00:44:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2013, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlorine-and-toenail-fungus/546976/41 "2013-03-14T23:00:47Z")

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> [@jharvey963](#):
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> I THOUGHT I had toe nail fungus for many years. I finally (can’t remember why) went to a podiatrist for it (not a GP), and he said it wasn’t fungus – it was a damaged nail. So all of Pen-lac, vapo-rub, tea tree oil, etc. treatments I had tried for years were pointless. The solution: surgery to have the nail and nail bed removed. No problems with it since.
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> My point: go see a good podiatrist to CONFIRM that it is actually fungus and not something else before you waste all that time on money on ineffective self-treatments.
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> J.

Nail and nail bed removed? So there is nothing there now but skin? (I’m not sure what “nail bed” refers to)  
Roddy

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**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\
**Post date:** [March 15, 2013, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chlorine-and-toenail-fungus/546976/42 "2013-03-15T02:50:56Z")

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> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Nail and nail bed removed? So there is nothing there now but skin? (I’m not sure what “nail bed” refers to)Roddy

I just had a fingernail removed a couple of months ago. I think he’s referring to the “nail matrix” (that’s what my Doc called it); after the diseased nail was gone, the matrix was doused with silver di-something to prevent new nail regeneration. The matrix is under the skin closer to the knuckle; the nail bed (where the visible nail used to be) now looks like smooth skin.

By the way… Lamisil is now available as a generic, at a _tiny_ fraction of the exorbitant former price. I paid $900 for a 6-month Rx twenty years ago; last year the same Rx was about $20.

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