Common active ingredients include miconazole, econazole, clotrimazole, and tioconazole. You may also note that an antifungal cream contains a second active ingredient to reduce itching. This is usually hydrocortisone, which may help relieve discomfort caused by fungal infections before the medication can...
In addition, for clinicians comfortable with Echinacea as an immune enhancer, it is used as an addition to antimicrobials to improve the therapeutic outcome. For example, Echinacea added to an antifungal regime of topical econazole nitrate reduced fungal reoccurrence rates from 60.5% to 16.7%.55 ...