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fatfail
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States386 Posts
May 01 2012 05:31 GMT
#1
So, everybody in my family has it, and I've been trying to not get it for a while. Unfortunately, it is kind of hard to avoid since I'm in contact with it daily (carpet, shower, etc). However, I have a feeling that I've gotten it already, and there are no symptoms at the moment since my immune system is super strong (I eat food off the floor every day, work out daily, and eat super healthy). However, I can definitely feel a little bit of itching, and the skin on my feet keeps peeling off (new skin underneath, not raw flesh). Is there any possible diagnosis or recommendation about what to do?

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Sadistx
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
Zimbabwe5568 Posts
May 01 2012 05:48 GMT
#2
Depending on how it looks, skin peeling off can be quite normal. After walking barefoot on a rough surface I can sometimes peel off pieces of skin from my feet later, but it doesn't smell or look unhealthy, just old skin falling off.

If you're seriously worried, go see your family doctor and he'll probably give you some sort of cream for prevention just to make sure.

I would honestly just wash my feet after physical activity and keep them dry.
munchmunch
Profile Joined October 2010
Canada789 Posts
May 01 2012 05:58 GMT
#3
If you've got it, you'll know... major bumps and itchiness. Fortunately, it's easily cured with an antifungal cream. (Have your family members been to see the doctor?)
m3rciless
Profile Joined August 2009
United States1476 Posts
May 01 2012 05:58 GMT
#4
I EAT FOOD OFF THE FLOOR EVERY DAY!
White-Ra fighting!
Imabomb
Profile Joined June 2011
United States36 Posts
May 01 2012 06:03 GMT
#5
Soak your feet in apple vinegar to get rid of Athlete's foot fungus, smells bad, but it works for me.
"Whattt?!!?……… ohh wait, now it get it…kind of…"- myself in a 9am Sat. statistics class
red4ce
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States7313 Posts
May 01 2012 06:04 GMT
#6
Lotrimin Ultra or Lamisil at your local pharmacy should do the trick.
Excomm
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States152 Posts
May 01 2012 08:32 GMT
#7
The fungus that causes athlete's foot can live pretty much anywhere there is moisture, so the best thing you can do is thoroughly dry your feet and prevent the spread of the fungus by wearing socks or flip flops to and from the shower (if you are afraid it is on the bathroom floor).

The fungus is really contagious, but it also dies very easily to most common household cleaners. Scrubbing the places you think might be infected with some cleaner every couple of days (including washing bath towels etc.) will help prevent reinfection, but the best cure is the anti-fungal creams from the store.

As far as diagnosis goes you don't really need to consult a doctor for athlete's foot unless you develop some type of severe reaction like a ring like rash called ringworm which can be caused by the same fungus anywhere on the body, but don't worry it's not a worm. Areas of raw or whitish skin can also develop (particularly between your toes) that you might also want to visit a doctor for.

Most cases of athlete's foot are mild and can be taken care of without the need to see a doctor. Just keep clean and dry, good luck.
Silidons
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2813 Posts
May 01 2012 08:40 GMT
#8
i had athletes foot (dad had it, got it through standing on same shower mat) and i actually put lotion on my feet everytime i went to bed. oddly it healed it
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon Bonaparte
blade55555
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States17423 Posts
May 01 2012 09:12 GMT
#9
It's not hard to heal at all. I had it when I was younger and I just had to put some cream on my feet whenever I took a shower ( so everyday) and it healed pretty fast. Not hard to heal at all so take comfort in that
When I think of something else, something will go here
emjaytron
Profile Joined June 2011
Australia544 Posts
May 01 2012 09:18 GMT
#10
Well funnily enough I have a friend who is a podiatrist and she reckons that windex actually kills tinea (the actual name of the fungi) better than any foot cream or powder she's tried.
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Th1rdEye
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1074 Posts
May 01 2012 10:17 GMT
#11
My friend told me that peeing on your feet cures it...


Not sure if that's true or not, just sayin
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Fishgle
Profile Blog Joined May 2011
United States2174 Posts
May 01 2012 10:19 GMT
#12
I used to have the same problem. What I did is buy my own personal shower mat to step on, and always walk around the house in slippers or socks, never barefoot. Besides the creams and ointments, soaking your feet in Epsom Salt (aka, magnesium sulfate) helps a lot too.
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isleyofthenorth
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Austria894 Posts
May 01 2012 10:54 GMT
#13
On May 01 2012 19:17 Th1rdEye wrote:
My friend told me that peeing on your feet cures it...


Not sure if that's true or not, just sayin


lol i heard that you should do that if a jellyfish stung you. apparently pee heals everything :D
skunk_works
Profile Joined April 2011
United States109 Posts
May 01 2012 11:12 GMT
#14
lotromin ultra spray can works great
arioch
Profile Joined May 2010
England403 Posts
May 01 2012 12:23 GMT
#15
What on earth causes you to eat off of the floor every day?
Man with a Plan
Profile Joined January 2012
United States401 Posts
May 01 2012 12:24 GMT
#16
Warm salt solution. Foot powder.
Yo!
fatfail
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States386 Posts
May 02 2012 04:57 GMT
#17
On May 01 2012 21:23 arioch wrote:
What on earth causes you to eat off of the floor every day?


Uh, I dumpster dive for food at school. Sometimes, I get too lazy to put my food on a plate, so I just throw it in the microwave and then I scrape it off the microwave surface and eat it. When my friends drop food on the ground and won't eat it, I do. Yeah, so almost every day involves me eating food from a questionably sanitary source.
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