Symptoms of erosive and exudative foot moisture

Our feet are in a closed environment for a long time. If we do not pay attention to hygiene, it is easy to breed bacteria and cause various diseases. Erosive and exudative foot moisture is a typical one. The most typical symptom is small puddle between the toes and strong itching. Obviously, if you can understand the symptoms of erosive and exudative foot moisture and discover it in time, it will be very beneficial for recovery.

Symptoms: Immersion between the toes, covered with white skin, often with a foul odor. Or blisters may cluster on the toes and edges of the feet, causing dryness and desquamation. Or the skin on the heel, edge of the foot, or even the entire sole of the foot becomes thickened, dry, and cracked. I feel severe itching, especially in summer. People with excessive sweating on their feet are prone to this disease.

Causes

Damp feet are prone to secondary infection. In severe cases, the exudate increases significantly and has a peculiar odor. The local skin (mostly near the base of the toe on the flexor side) is easily scratched to reveal a red eroded surface. The local area gradually swells and may even extend to the sole of the foot, which is called "stinking snail." It is also called "athlete's foot". There is another type of foot dampness, dryness and itching between the toes, local roughness and desquamation of the skin, and chapped skin that is prone to occur in cold weather.

Reasons for the recurrence of damp feet:

1. Incomplete treatment: Although fungi mostly parasitize in the shallow layer of the skin, they can also be found in the deeper layers. If you apply medicine several times and see that the skin between the toes has dried and peeled off, and think that it is healed and stop applying medicine, the mold hidden deeper in the skin will continue to multiply in a few days.

2. Repeated infection: When the tinea pedis fungus is active, the shoes and socks will be contaminated with some fungal spores. The spores are tolerant to both cold and heat, and washing with soap will not kill them. When you wear these shoes and socks again, the mold will have a chance to become active again. In addition to self-infection, another possibility of reinfection is reinfection due to using public bath towels or public foot basins.

Treatment and prescription

Internal treatment method

Damp-heat: dense blisters, erosion and water discharge, soaking into patches, itching and pain or fever. The tongue coating is thin and yellow, and the pulse is slippery and rapid.

1. Treatment: Clear away heat and remove dampness

2. Prescription: Bijie Shenshi Decoction (Bijie, Coix Seed , Phellodendron, Poria, Cortex Moutan, Alisma, Talc, Tongcao) with additions and subtractions

Blood deficiency and wind dryness: The skin becomes thickened, rough, cracked, itchy and dry. Red tongue, thin coating, thin pulse

1. Treatment method: nourish blood and dispel wind

2. Prescription: Danggui Yinzi (Danggui, Chuanxiong, White Peony Root, Radix Rehmanniae, Saposhnikovia, Tribulus Terrestris, Nepeta, Polygonum Multiflorum, Astragalus, Licorice) with additions and subtractions

[External treatment]

1. You can apply compound radix scutellariae tincture externally.

2. For those with abscesses, apply indigo ointment externally.

3. For those with desquamation, dryness or cracking, apply realgar ointment externally.