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Whether you’ve been upping the ante with your fitness regime, spending more time in the pool and gym showers, or just prefer to live your life in trainers, we can create the perfect warm, dark and humid environments that fungus requires to thrive. And as annoying as athlete’s foot can be, there are simple treatments: topical creams, sprays and lotions. Below are our tips to help look after your hard-working feet so that you can stay active and try to avoid athlete's foot fungus.
Also known as tinea pedis, athlete’s foot is a contagious fungal infection that that can affect the skin in between the toes as well as the sole of the feet.
It can appear as dry scaly skin so people could mistakenly assume they have dry skin. Athlete’s foot can make the soles and sides of feet itchy and sore. Common signs include: itchy white patches between your toes; red, sore and flaky patches on your feet, and skin that may crack and bleed. Athlete’s foot can also cause fluid-filled blisters.
Athlete’s foot is very common and anyone can get it. It is estimated that up to one in four people have athlete’s foot* at some point in their lives. It is frequently seen among people who sweat more. However, anyone could get the infection from other people, for example if walking barefoot in changing rooms and showers.
*Figures from Patient.info Athlete’s foot. Accessed June 2019
Anyone can get athlete’s foot, but certain actions can increase the risk of getting or developing it. These include:
Treating athlete's foot can involve applying regular antifungal treatments (available from pharmacies) often around twice a day to the infected area for as long as the instructions say or as advised by a healthcare professional. Although symptoms tend to go quite quickly, you may need to apply the treatment for up to a fortnight after the rash has disappeared to help protect against reoccurrence. In the meantime, try not to scratch the affected skin as this may spread the infection to other areas of the body.
To help avoid athlete’s foot in the future:
If the above advice and treatments don’t work, you’re in a lot of discomfort, your feet are red, hot and painful, you have diabetes or a weakened immune system, please contact your local healthcare professional such as a podiatrist for further medical advice.
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