Is foot odor a disease?

Maybe many of you don’t have a good understanding of the concept of disease in life, so you don’t even know that foot odor is a fungal skin infection. In the case of foot odor, we can use some methods to treat foot odor in our daily life, so we recommend that you wear some cotton and silk socks or add some quicklime into your shoes, or you can add some tea leaves or orange peels.

Foot odor has a great impact on the patient's life, because patients with foot odor have a barrier in their hearts. They will think it is shameful to have smelly feet in front of friends. So you may use some folk remedies to treat foot odor in your life, but it is best for you to stick to it.

Foot odor is caused by the large number of sweat glands in the soles of the feet, which make them sweat easily. In addition to water and salt, sweat also contains lactic acid and urea. Under conditions of excessive sweating, the bacteria on the feet multiply and decompose keratin, which, together with the urea and lactic acid in the sweat, produces a foul odor. If the shoes are not breathable and the air is not circulating, the odor will accumulate and become stronger and stronger.

Athlete's foot is a very common fungal skin infection. It is recommended to wipe the area with iodine cotton balls after washing your feet every night. After three to five minutes, use 75% medical alcohol to deiodine. Afterwards, wrap dry cotton strips between the toes before sleeping to keep the area dry. Athlete's foot is prone to recurrence after seven to ten consecutive days. You should pay attention to wipe it frequently with iodine and alcohol, iron and wash socks frequently, try to wear less hiking shoes, and wear more cloth shoes.

Athlete's foot is a common disease in people's lives. Once the disease occurs, patients often feel unbearable itching, and red spots and scaling appear between the toes. In patients with severe symptoms, the entire soles of the feet will become red and peel off. Athlete's foot not only seriously affects the patient's daily work and life, but is also easily contagious to others. However, not many patients seek medical treatment for athlete's foot. Zhao Junying, director of the Department of Dermatology at Beijing Friendship Hospital, said that most patients with athlete's foot only come to the hospital when their symptoms are more serious. In the early stages of the disease when the symptoms are milder, they usually use some folk remedies for self-treatment.

As the article introduces, foot odor is a skin infection disease, and everyone should know that foot odor is a disease. Foot odor is more common in the summer, mainly because the hot weather in summer can easily lead to sweating on the soles of the feet, which aggravates the foot odor. I hope you can pay attention to the treatment methods for foot odor.