Antifungal Drugs are prescribed to treat fungal infections of the skin, hair, and nails. You can buy antifungal medications from a pharmacy without a prescription from your doctor. Antifungal Drugs can be used to treat infections.
Antifungals are often used to treat the following fungi:
- Some types of severe dandruff include ringworm, athlete's foot, fungal nail infection, vaginal thrush, and ringworm.
- Some fungal infections can grow within the body and require medical treatment.
- Aspergillosis is a fungus that affects the lungs, whereas fungal meningitis is a fungus that affects the brain.
- If your immune system is weakened – for example, if you're using medicines to suppress your immune system – you're more likely to contract one of these more serious fungal infections.
Antifungal medications include:
- a lotion, a gel, an ointment, or a spray
- an injection in the form of a capsule, tablet, or liquid
- a pessary, a pessary, a pessary, a tiny, soft tablet that is inserted into the vaginal canal
- Clotrimazole is a drug that is used to treat clotrimazole (Canesten)
- econazole
- terbinafine miconazole (Lamisil)
- ketoconazole (Diflucan) fluconazole (Diflucan) (Daktarin)
- nystatin is a kind of nystatin that is (Nystan)
- amphotericin
Antifungal medications function in one of two ways:
- Preventing the fungus from developing.
- by killing the fungus.
When should you see a pharmacist or a doctor?
If you suspect you have a fungal infection, see a pharmacist or your doctor. They can help you choose the right antifungal medication for you.
Call 111 or see a pharmacist or GP if you take too much antifungal medication.
If you're told you need to go to the hospital, bring the medicine's packaging with you so the doctors can see what you've taken.