Whats the evidence for terbinafine cream or spray?
There’s good evidence that terbinafine cream, a type of treatment called a topical allylamine, can cure athlete’s foot. (Treatments you put on your skin are called topical treatments.) We found one big summary of the research (a systematic review) that included 19 studies of terbinafine and other allylamines. [1] The studies looked at 2,078 people with athlete’s foot. In the studies, about 7 in 10 people who used a topical allylamine, such as terbinafine, were cured within six weeks. But only 1 or 2 in 10 people who used a dummy treatment (a placebo) were cured in the same time.
