Treatment of athlete's foot

Athlete's foot is a very common and extremely stubborn skin fungal disease, which is often called tinea pedis. Patients with athlete's foot will have many small blisters on their feet and they are very itchy, but if you scratch them directly with your hands, the area of ​​the disease will expand, and some will even be transmitted to the hands. Athlete's foot is very difficult to treat. Even if it is cured after using certain medicine, it will relapse again after a short time. It is difficult to cure it completely.

I believe that many people have tried various methods to treat athlete's foot, but many of them gave up treatment halfway because they did not persist in the treatment. In fact, there are many treatments for athlete's foot. The key is persistence, because athlete's foot is stubborn and requires long-term treatment to recover.

1. Those with erosion and exudation between toes

Do not use any strongly irritating medications externally. It is best to allow the wound to dry and astringent before applying medication. You can apply a 1:8000 potassium permanganate solution as a wet compress, then apply external oil or powder, and after the skin is dry, switch to creams or ointments such as terbinafine hydrochloride.

2. Small blisters on the feet that have not broken

You can first soak it in 3% boric acid solution, and then use antifungal creams such as bifonazole cream.

3. Tinea pedis combined with bacterial infection, in principle, should be treated with local antibacterial agents first

You can use furacilin solution or 1:2000 berberine solution for wet compress. For severe infection, you can take antibiotics orally, such as cephalexin capsules, erythromycin, etc.

4. Treatment of athlete's foot: systemic treatment

For stubborn tinea pedis, oral medications can be given if there are no contraindications. Such as terbinafine, itraconazole, fluconazole, etc. These oral medications are effective, but attention should be paid to their possible side effects and they should not be used by people with poor liver function.

5. Take your medication consistently

Tinea pedis is a chronic infection in which fungi grow and multiply in the stratum corneum and require long-term medication to completely eliminate it. Therefore, after the symptoms of tinea pedis are relieved, you still need to continue taking the medication. The skin's metabolic cycle is about 28 days, so the medication must be taken for more than four weeks.

The above is an introduction to the treatment methods of athlete's foot. Although athlete's foot is not a serious disease and will not cause much pain to patients, athlete's foot often causes itching, peeling, and affects the appearance, so it still has a great impact on people. Patients with athlete's foot must seek timely treatment when the disease is discovered. In addition, when using medications, they must use them under the guidance of a doctor and must not use medications without authorization.