antifungal treatment
Kills yeast infections
Antifungal treatment is medical intervention to combat fungal infections—whether topical creams for athlete's foot, oral medications for systemic infections, or antifungal nail lacquers.
The term covers both the medication itself and the course of therapy: The antifungal treatment lasted six weeks.
Also called antimycotic treatment.
- mycosisFungal disease
- skinBody's outer layer
- skin rashIrritated skin condition
- itchy skinEpidermis causing scratch reflex
- infectionPathogen invasion causing illness
ringworm · tinea · fluconazole · candidiasis · yeast infection · nail · cream · over the counter · foot · oral · fungicide · prescription · topical · antifungal · burning · yeast · jock itch · spores
- Ringwormringworm, tinea, athlete's foot, jock itch, trichophyton
target pathogen type
antifungal treatmentantibiotic
Bacteria-killing medication
antiviral treatment · antibacterial · antiviral · antiparasitic · antimalarial