What is the best medicine for treating athlete's foot?

Because our feet are wrapped in socks and shoes for a long time, they are likely to breed bacteria in an airtight environment for a long time. Moreover, some people do not pay attention to personal hygiene and do not wash their feet before going to bed every day, which further accelerates the reproduction of bacteria and viruses. Once athlete's foot develops, it is difficult to cure it. Athlete's foot is basically cyclical and will recur at a certain time every year, affecting our life, work and even mood. So what is the best medicine to treat athlete's foot?

reason:

Tinea pedis, commonly known as "athlete's foot", is called "foot dampness" in traditional Chinese medicine. It is a skin disease caused by superficial fungal infection. It can be divided into two types: dry and wet. The main manifestations of dry type are dry, rough, thickened, peeling skin on the soles of the feet, and easy cracking in winter; the main manifestations of wet type are small blisters and erosion between the toes, moist and white skin, flushing after the old skin is scratched, and exudation of yellow water. Both are extremely itchy, and both may exist at the same time, with recurring symptoms that are worse in spring and summer and better in autumn and winter.

Athlete's foot is a very common fungal skin infection. 70% to 80% of adults have athlete's foot, but the severity varies. It often gets worse in summer and gets better in winter, but some people never get better all year round.

Athlete's foot is usually divided into three types: erosive, blistering, and keratotic.

Erosive type: often occurs between the third and fourth, and between the fourth and fifth toes. Initially, the spaces between the toes are damp, whitish or small blisters appear. After drying and scaling, the dandruff reveals a moist, flushed eroded surface that is extremely itchy and prone to secondary infection.

Blister type: often occurs on the edge of the foot. Initially, they are small blisters with thick and full walls, some of which may fuse

It forms large bullae with transparent blister fluid and no redness around them. The patient feels extremely itchy, and scratching often leads to secondary infection, such as erysipelas and lymphangitis.

Keratinic type: often occurs on the heels. The main symptoms are rough, thick and dry skin, keratinization and desquamation, itching, and easy cracking. This type of disease has no blisters or suppuration, and the course of the disease is slow and does not heal for many years.

1. If you like sports, your feet sweat a lot, you often wear sneakers or other non-breathable shoes, and you don’t change socks frequently, as fungi can easily multiply in a damp environment.

2. Sharing towels, bath towels, foot basins, slippers, etc. with others, resulting in cross infection.

3. The treatment is not thorough, and the patient stops taking the medicine because he thinks the symptoms have improved. The fungi are not completely killed and grow again in large numbers. Therefore, even if the symptoms improve, you should continue to take the medication for a period of time.

4. If you suffer from systemic diseases, such as diabetes, and your body's resistance is poor, you should first control the systemic disease.

5. Athlete's foot can also be caused by a lack of vitamin B in the human body.

Drug treatment:

1. Erosive type:

First soak in 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution or 0.1% refonal solution, then apply gentian violet or athlete's foot powder externally, twice a day. After it dries, apply athlete's foot spirit or tinea versicolor ointment externally, twice a day.

2. Blister type:

Apply clotrimazole tinea lotion or compound salicylic acid tincture once a day after soaking your feet in hot water. After the skin is dry, apply athlete's foot cream or tinea pedis ointment.

3. Keratinic type: