If your hands and feet are itchy and have blisters, be careful of tinea pedis! Preventive care tips

Tinea pedis and tinea manuum are called "goose palm wind" in traditional Chinese medicine, while tinea pedis is also called "foot dampness" in traditional Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that this disease is mostly caused by damp-heat in the spleen and stomach, which goes up through the meridians to the hands and causes ringworm, and goes down to the feet and causes tinea pedis. Tinea pedis is contagious. So how to prevent tinea pedis?

To prevent tinea pedis, you should try to:

① Wash your feet and shoes and socks frequently, apply foot powder frequently, and keep your feet dry, clean and hygienic.

② Do not scratch if you have tinea pedis to avoid flying scales and infecting others or your own hands.

③Do not share bath towels, shoes and socks with others to avoid mutual infection.

④ Try to persuade the tinea pedis patients around you to actively take effective treatment measures.

Prevention measures for tinea pedis

1. After washing your feet or taking a bath at night, wipe the moisture between your toes and apply disinfectant powder. The purpose is to keep the space between your toes as dry as possible to prevent reinfection of epidermal fungi.

2. Pay attention to personal hygiene. Do not use public slippers, foot basins, cleaning cloths, etc. Sterilize shoes, socks, and foot cloths regularly to keep your feet clean and dry.

3. Shoes, socks and foot cloths should be sterilized regularly to keep feet clean and dry. Bathrooms, swimming pools and other public places are the main places for the spread of tinea pedis, and the disinfection management system should be strictly implemented.

4. Excessive sweating and injuries of hands and feet are often one of the most common causes of tinea pedis or tinea manuum. In normal times, it is necessary to reduce the adverse stimulation of chemical, physical, and biological substances on the skin of hands and feet. If the patient is a patient, drink less irritating beverages, such as strong tea, coffee, alcohol, etc., because these beverages stimulate the secretion and excretion of sweat glands, and provide a favorable environment for susceptibility to epidermal fungi.

Daily care for tinea pedis and tinea manuum

Tinea pedis is a common infectious skin disease, which can easily induce other diseases. Therefore, tinea pedis should be prevented and treated. How should we prevent it at home?

1. Pay attention to personal hygiene. Do not use public slippers, foot basins, wipes, etc. Sterilize shoes, socks, and foot cloths regularly to keep your feet clean and dry.

2. Excessive sweating and injuries of hands and feet are often one of the common causes of tinea pedis or tinea manuum. In normal times, you should reduce the adverse stimulation of chemical, physical, and biological substances on the skin of hands and feet. If you are a patient, drink less irritating beverages, such as strong tea, coffee, alcohol, etc., because these beverages stimulate the secretion and excretion of sweat glands, providing a favorable environment for susceptibility to epidermal fungi.

3. Generally, dry types can be treated with athlete's foot medicine, and wet types can be treated with ointment. Keep using the medicine and wear clean socks at night to avoid contaminating the bedding.

4. If erosion or infection is found, go to the hospital for treatment. Pay attention to keeping your skin dry and clean, wash your feet every night, wash and change your socks every day or every other day, keep your shoes dry, and expose them to sunlight for ventilation frequently. It is best not to wear rubber shoes.

5. When the itching is severe, do not scratch with your hands. You can press and rub to relieve the itching. You should continue to apply the medicine for about a month until the local skin no longer peels. When the weather turns warmer the next year, if you find blisters and peeling on the affected area, you need to apply the above medicine for another 2-4 weeks. You can puncture the small blisters with a sterilized needle and then apply the medicine for better results.