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One of the most common areas affected by fungi and bacteria is the feet. Since it prone to being warm and moist, the foot is usually home to the fungi known as “dermatophytes”—the kind fungi that causes athlete’s foot.

Athlete’s foot also known as “tinea pedis” is considered one of the very common skin problems experienced by people all over the world.

Statistics say that adult males compared to women commonly experience athlete’s foot. This condition is also known to affect young boys and girls before they enter puberty stage. Experts also say that people who have weak immune systems also become prone to infections such as athlete’s foot and they have to take precautions and preventive measures to avoid further infection.

The fungi that cause the foot infection usually thrive in warm, moist, and dark environments that include shoes or places where people use the same facilities because these are ideal breeding grounds for the germs to easily multiply.

The usual symptoms of athlete’s foot include scaling and peeling between the toes, mild pain, odor, blistering and itching. If remained untreated, harmless athlete’s foot can lead to severe athlete’s foot that causes extreme pain, bleeding, large amounts of scaling, painful foot blisters, stinking odor and may also spread in the different parts of the body once it is become associated with bacterial infection.

AVOIDING SEVERE ATHLETE’S FOOT

You will know if the athlete’s foot becomes severe when the fungus has already set off a reaction that lead to tissue breakdown. Characterized with soggy, softened, and whitened skin, eroded toe webs, severe itching, foul odor, painful cracking and blisters with bleeding, severe athlete’s foot should be examined by a physician before it becomes associated with a more complicated condition such as onychomycosis or the fungal infection of the toenails.

Before it becomes a severe and complicated infection that can result to allergic reaction when it infects the blood stream, take these precautionary measures in treating the skin condition:

1. Make sure that you always keep your feet dry at all times especially the toe webs.

2. Use athlete’s foot products such as antifungal cream, powder, lotion, or spray to kill and delay fungal growth.

3. Start wearing socks preferably made of cotton or absorbent fibers and make sure that you change once they get soak with sweat.

4. Try wearing waterproof sandals or athletic slippers when you have to use public showers and or stay in public pools.

5. Go barefoot or wear open-toe sandals when you could especially if the weather is hot or humid to keep your feet dry.

6. Don’t wear shoes that are too tight and poorly ventilated shoes.

7. Make is a habit to expose your shoes at night to provide it proper ventilation.

8. If possible, try not wearing the same shoes everyday to avoid the growth and spread of fungi.

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