Natural Cures For Jock Itch
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Itching in the groin area can be downright annoying. And, God forbid, if you get caught in public, it can become downright embarrassing too. No amount of twisting, turning or squirming is likely to bring relief; you’ve to reach out for your unmentionables. If it is any consolation, men are affected more than women. But, you don’t have to suffer this humiliation, since there are some natural remedies for jock itch available.
How do you get jock itch?
Jock itch is a fungal infection that thrives rather well in the warm and moist environment of the groin area. The culprit, Trichophyton rubrum that causes this condition, is quite capable of doing the same to your toes and body.
How does jock itch appear?
Most of you must be familiar with the jock itch symptom. It starts as a rash in the groin fold usually on both sides and, if left to itself, will usually advance down the inner thigh. The advancing edge is bright red, scaly and more raised than the skin already conquered by the fungus, which is usually reddish-brown and less scaly.
The good news for males is it spares the scrotum and penis. If they’re affected then, most probably, the culprit is Candida albicans, a type of yeast that causes vaginal yeast infections.
Preventing jock itch
The best home cure for jock itch is to not let it occur in the first place! So, take the following preventive measures on the first sign itself:
a. Shower:
Wash the suspected area thoroughly with an antibacterial soap and rinse well.
b. Keep area dry:
To prevent the fungus from spreading, keep the crotch area as dry as possible and don’t let the area collect sweat under any circumstances.
c. Use powder:
Powdering the area well will prevent the moisture from accumulating in the groin area. So, lightly dust the powder whenever you change your underwear.
d. Cotton clothing:
Wear loose fitting cotton clothing or synthetic materials designed to wick moisture away from the surface. Those wearing athletic supporters should put on a pair of clean, all-cotton shorts under it to prevent rubbing of skin and accumulation of perspiration.
e. Change sweaty clothes:
Sweat generally collects in the groin area despite best efforts. To keep it sweat-free, change your sweaty workout clothes and undergarments as frequently as possible. And please don’t put them back on without washing them first!
f. Avoid sharing clothes:
One of the sure shot ways of contracting jock itch is to share your clothing or towel. So, don’t borrow them and be firm about letting others use yours.
g. Shed extra weight:
If you’re on the heavier side you tend to have more skin folds that give a damp and moist environment to the fungus. So, shed those extra pounds.
Home remedy for jock itch
Before you reach out for over-the-counter creams, try some jock itch natural cures:
a. Salted bath:
Prepare a hot bath and sprinkle it with a generous amount of salt. Soak yourself in it for fifteen minutes to let the salt work on the affected areas. The salt draws the liquid from the blisters and dries them up. By repeating twice daily for two to three days you’ll find your jock itch disappear.
b. Washing:
To cure jock itch, wash the affected area in chlorine bleach or vinegar.
c. Tea tree oil:
Tea tree oil is a deep cleansing and stimulating oil with strong antibacterial properties. It helps relieve burning and itching, when it’s applied to the infected area.
d. Garlic:
Garlic has been used for jock itch treatment for a long time. You can either take it orally or make a compress by blending it with olive oil and apply it to the affected area.
Jock itch can make life a living hell. However, it doesn’t take much to cure the condition. Although over-the-counter creams are generally recommended, natural cures are as effective. However, let your physician decide what’s best for your condition.
 
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How much bleach and/or vinegar is required?
Obviously the bleach must be dilluted, but what about the vinegar?
I have heard alcohol works for athletes foot too, as alcohol draws moisture away from the feet.
I heard that hidrogen peroxide also helps with jock itch, as well as the alcohol.
where can i buy that product?
all 3 are good cures
water bottle 3 parts water 1 part bleach (shake well) (do not straight up put bleach on your junk as it is a sure fire chemical burn and holy mother of god ER time) Get a washcloth/dropper like an ear syringe and apply every few hours. fyi if it lives bleach kills it so for other things it is useful, just think of it as liquid death.
for garlic take capsules as the taste of raw is unpleasant in needed quantities for most. triple whatever the bottle says as you are not taking as a supplement and it is a food product so your not going to OD or anything. blending/mincing it in olive oil is a great idea. putting garlic powder (herb for cooking) straight on junk area causes great irritation but does relieve future pain/kill it. using olive/tea tree oil will get rid of the pain from application and stick it on there.
the creams are virtually the same. pick one (lotrimin,etc..) apply as directed and use an antifungal powder soon after as the cream helps the powder stick instead of falling off with movement (zeasorb). make sure you get the inner thigh creases.
Nuke underwear and all bedding with bleach. Also while applying all of this go ahead and apply to your butt crack to prevent it from spreading there (you already have 1 sensitive area threatened, 2 is twice as bad)
Also when possible be naked and in the presence of light (be it sun or artificial). Tanning bads are very unhealthy but if you are a tanner (bleach it clean if shared) the light can help kill it. (naked again)
After treating yourself in such ways for 1 week or so if it isn’t gone/going/relieved see a doc because you may have some other wonderful thing.
Also when I slept I positioned a 400w halogen bulb as close to my groin as I could get it without worrying about burning myself (I rigged up a flex-neck type light to it and the ballast)
I can’t credit that to my recovery as I was frantically doing things to it but I believe it helped. (it is a fungus and I don’t see too much growing in full sun so nuke and light it up)
I couldn’t figure out what was bothering me since my symptoms didn’t quite fit any of the usual culprits for women. It wasn’t until my doctor suggested I try lotrimin that it even occurred to me that it could be some form of jock itch. I’ve been using tea tree oil for about 24 hours now and it has had a more immediate and drastic effect than anything I have tried over the past month! (btw- BLEACH? that just sounds dangerous)
My husband used 3 per cent hydrogen peroxide (35 per cent food grade hydrogen peroxide diluted 1:10 with filtered water) sprayed onto his groin area, then left to dry, morning and evening. The spray did not sting in any way. The jock itch soon went away, and has never come back (about 2 years now). This is an effective and cheap remedy.
just do a search on natural remedies for jock itch, the same things keep reoccurring: salt baths, tea tree oil, garlic along with all the common sense personal hygiene recommendations.
eg. http://naturalmedicine.suite101.com/article.cfm/natural_jock_itch_remedies
Try boxer briefs instead of regular jock briefs (the elastic absorbs the most moisture and it rubs right agains your groin crease - and also after washing this elastic retains moisture and and remnants of the fungus. And as HGF said, dry your clothes in the sun to make sure they are 100% dry.
If you have to wear a jockstrap for sports, get some antifungal powder like ego resolve and coat your sweaty jockstrap after (and before) use. Carry powder with you when at sports to put around your balls after a sweating or showering to absorb as much moisture as you can before you get home to change into your clean jocks.
Of course all other things apply, like good diet, and apparently it is good to avoid white starchy foods and yeast if you find you have a stubborn case (although avoiding this crap is a good idea in general as our bodies are naturally intolerant to yeast and white starchy foods aren’t natural and just make you fat anyway). In order to get rid of your ball sack foes, you need to make a plan of attack and be vigilant, not just for a couple of days, but for one month to ensure every last sign of the fungus is dead and once dead, further care to build up the natural process and immunity of those affected cells so they aren’t compromised allowing the fungus to return - it only takes one microscopic individual (viruses are asexual remember!!!) As anything in life, half assed efforts will get half assed results, you only need to do it once if you do it properly.
Ok, due to the huge amount of information out there regarding jock itch, this is for those who think jock itch is the end of the world for them:
For f*cks sake use common sense, i.e. dont bleach it, then an hour later put tea tree oil, then the next hour use a pharmeceutical cream, then have a shower with soap, then after that put garlic on it …. because you think it will speed things up - you know what I mean, we all think we can outsmart nature; dont be a jockitchhead, regardless if you’ve got a hot date or a fricken dick togs photo shoot the next day, be patient and use your brain, trying to rush and get rid of them just ends up making them worse.
Remember those teenage zits where you thought: ‘if i just squeeze that little bit out it will be fixed and I will look perfect again’, only to end up with a red scabby welt 3 times the size - leading you into a downward spiral where you smash the mirror with your fist, slice open two fingers, then retreat under your pillow crying like a man whore thinking your life is over and that God has singled you out and is punishing you for that horrible thing you said to Jenny four eyes the week before…
Despite what you read on the internet, you won’t cure your jock itch in 24 hours or less, e.g. Vincent Hess is a loser praying on your urgency and insecurities (http://www.myjockitchcure.com) just like all the others trying to make you feel bad about your small cock. They should be shot!
Sorry, bit of a tangent there, but to sum it all up most of the major symptoms of jock itch will reside in a few days. Either use the natural remedies, or a pharmaceutical cream, be methodical and consistent and most importantly keep up your regime for at least 2 weeks after the symptoms subside because even if the symptoms are gone, the fungus can still be there.
Bleach is a BAD Idea!!!! Don’t put that on your skin
If you read the bleach bottle, it states that it is a skin irritant. Even diluted, it’s still toxic and lethal. Would you drink it if it was diluted? Also, bleach is not natural, at least not Chlorox.
The OTC creams are NOT all the same. I was using a generic version of Tinactin for almost 2 weeks to no avail. My doctor prescribed LAMASIL as it has a different ingredient and is more effective against tougher cases of jock itch. Also, in my line of work, I get very hot and sweaty and I’m not allowed to wear anything other than jeans so getting my groin some fresh air is out of the question. I use Monkey Butt Powder and it does a great job of keep me dry. It contains calamine powder and is heavier than regular baby powder. Also, washing your sheets and making sure you have clean clothes is key. Cleanliness is a very good way to not only cure jock itch, but also to keep it from coming back!
Im fat and had to go about three days without a shower. Ill admit im fat and now i have this burning itching feeling around my testicles and innner thigh. I dont know if this is jock itch but after three minutes of contact it becomes damp and foul smelling in the area. I have taken 2 showers in the past three hours and am planning on another. It is very unpleasant. If anyone could help me it would be deeply appreciated.
Kerosene totally rid me of the nasty fungus….. I tried everything and I mean everything. I haven’t had an episode of jock itch in 2 years now…..serious…. I lived with that nasty itch for 20 yrs….tried every product imaginable.
tea tree oil didn’t work for me..As a matter of fact nothing has worked..Not over the counter cream , not peroxide,,,nothing so I’m going to a doctor this week…
If you have ringworm (jock itch) for an extended amount of time you will need to see a physician and get a prescription for an antifungal cream or oral treatment. NOTHING will kill this fungus completely. I literally tried EVERYTHING. Tree tree oil, peroxide, vinegar, salt baths, none of these could kill it. I had contracted jock itch from my husband and had it throughout my entire pregnancy. I couldn’t treat it with anything harmful…it was hell!! I would wake up in the middle of the night with a burning itch. Finally after I was finished nursing my child, a dermatologist prescribed oral lamisil for two weeks. It finally was gone after over a year!
I heard that apple cider vinegar works too.
My mom had made this type of liquid with Garlic and Boric acid. At the time, I had had a horrible fungus down there. it started small, then it started increasing more and more, to the point where it reached my legs. i started seeing these red herpes looking type of things on my legs, and it was just horrible. I had been suffering from it for a whole year btw. So then it accured to me to try the rememdy that my mom made, since I had tried it on my athlete’s foot a year back and it had cured it in les than an hour; athletes fot that I’d had for about three years! So I finaly tried it….Oh my god!!!! it hurt soo badly.BUT it was worth it, because within the day, I had no more itch.
I had constant jock itch and creams and powders were just temporary remedies. I tried putting ajax on a sponge and rubbing the area a couple of times and the cure was instantaneous. This cure really does work.
bleach is a lot better then an itchy red ass crack