Athlete’s foot is a common foot health problem during the rainy season, especially if you have to wade through floodwaters contaminated with germs and return home and leave your feet wet for a long time without cleaning or drying them thoroughly. However, the problem of athlete’s foot is not serious and is not difficult to treat. You just need to take care of yourself properly along with using the right medication, and your foot health will return to its original good condition.
Symptom
- Itching or burning sensation in the feet or between the toes.
- Dry, cracked, flaky or peeling skin on the feet
- The skin between the toes is pale, cracked and rotten.
- Cracked skin between the toes, soles of the feet, UFABET, or heels
- Smelly feet
- There are blisters on the skin.
- Inflammation of the cracked skin occurs
- There is a strong odor on the feet.
Prevention of foot athlete’s foot
Wear clean, dry socks if you have symptoms of the disease. Boiling the socks will help reduce the amount of germs. Avoid wearing socks made from certain allergenic substances, as they will worsen the itching.
Wash your feet with clean water after walking in water, wading in water, or getting them wet. For dirty socks that cannot be washed normally immediately, wash them with clean water to remove dirt from the water first. Wring them out and hang them in a windy place. Do not let them ferment before having a chance to wash them normally.
To clean, especially wounds with swelling, redness, and cracks, soak your feet in a container with disinfectant. However, do not use a strong solution that will burn. When bathing, rub the wound area with scabs off with a soft, rough cloth. Then dry thoroughly, especially between the toes. Once dry, apply the medicine so that the medicine can penetrate and destroy the germs and remove stains, including the medicine applied previously. Do not apply the medicine repeatedly if it does not reach the germs.
Do not share personal belongings. with others, such as towels, socks, shoes, or even flip flops, especially if you have the disease, as it can be transmitt to others.
Infection from objects, public equipment or those used by service recipients, such as from using swimming pools or public baths, containers used for soaking feet, nail clippers, foot towels, and foot mats. If they are not take care of, kept clean, and there is no adequate elimination of microorganisms. These share items can become a source of germs from people who have fungus.
Scratching an area of the body using hands and nails that previously scratched a wound. With fungus may cause the new area that was scratch to become infect with another spot. This is an infection that spreads from one’s own body through scratching.
Lack of clean water or insufficient water for consumption, such as not being able to wash away dirt from the water, not having water for bathing, leading to poor personal hygiene, and promoting fungal skin diseases and many other diseases.