what athlete's foot remedy worked for you?

[UnitedZingDom]

just that really.

I need something that gets rid of athlete's foot.

thanks

Lamisil Once

Whitfields ointment.

DO NOT TRY THIS!!

Years ago my dad had athletes foot and hard skin he steeped his feet in raw domestos!! It took the whole sole of his foot off!! Stupid man

weelady did it cure the athletes foot though?

tea tree oil in between toes twice a day for a few days. Clears it up very fast.

BeCool thanks, but it's not just between toes.
it's all over, side of foot, sole of foot (in patches) and side of big toe.

there are little bubbles under the skin that make skin very itchy and bumpy and when they burst there's clear liquid coming out.
can't use anything that says do not apply on broken skin

no smelly feet though - I wonder if it is even athlete's foot....

thanks for all replies btw

Pompholyx eczema?

Tiny little raised itchy blisters, full of clear fluid and then drying/ flaking skin.

I get it on my hands and feet. I made the mistake of looking in google images but there are some pictures of the mild version on there if you can stomach it.

I treated mine with everything on the market until I realised what it was. Now I just use heavy duty moisturiser until it goes away. It's related to stress amongst other things (warmer weather).

well tea tree oil is anti-fungal. If you can buy it locally apply it straight away. if it won't work, I doubt it will make anything worse.

Actually it might be nice to soak your feet in warm water with about 15 drops of the oil in for a while and then apply neat once your feet are dry. I've used tea tree on broken skin - its stings for a moment but then its fine.

it sounds dreadful and very uncomfortable for you - you need to start treating it straight away. Or perhaps a visit to the docs?

thanks BeCool I have tea tree oil. I'll try soaking them.

Zombies I think you could be right. I have it on my hands/fingers too. I'll check it pictures on google.

I've been using E45 at the moment and just this morning applied a bit of canesten.

I had athletes foot. A fungal nail infection and dichotic excema.

Nothing was working so I started soaked my feet in warm water and tea tree oil. For about 10 mins every day. Usually in a shallow bath.

It made a huge difference.

Zombies I looked

it's what you said. I've had it on and off for 2 years and it got really bad the last few months (yes I had a lot of extra stress!)

great, there's no known cause or foolproof remedy

I am distraught.

Moisturisers like Nivea make it look better. I've also had some success with Lansinoh, waitrose baby bottom butter and Vaseline I cotton gloves and socks overnight.

Germolene clears up the red sore bits quickly.

An outbreak starts to look better after two weeks on my hands, I ignore my feet as too much like hard work, but cleaning my shoe insoles with tea tree etc and making sure they are cleaned regularly helps.

I'm trying to work on being less stressed and improving my diet too as it disappeared when I started an incredibly healthy eating plan.

Zombies thanks so much for all that.

I'm interested in your diet as well, what you did /quit that helped.

(I need to loose weight anyway so I'm already planning a diet change)

I had every lotion and potion going from the doc when I was a kid.

Another doc said that I should wear sandals all summer and paddle in the sea every day.

We lived on the coast, so it was easy to do this in the school holidays.

It worked, and my athletes foot disappeared for 10 years. It came back when I wore a pair of sweaty boots all the time.

But I appreciate that paddling in the sea every day is not easy for most.

Smaller plates, filled half to 2/3 of the plate with veg and salad before I put on the meat/carbs.

Very little sugar, very little high fat processed products.

Lots of nuts, seeds, lean meat, vegetables and grains- quinoa, couscous, bulgar wheat, barley, spelt etc. I cut out a lot of milk (I'm mildly intolerant anyway) and tried to avoid anything overly processed, or with more than four or five ingredients.

Lots of Japanese (sushi in particular, making my own turned out to be a million times easier than I thought), stir fries, interesting salads, soups, risottos. Lots of meat/fish/grains/veg meals. Less pasta and bread. I went to our local ethnic supermarkets and have bought all sorts of things I haven't tried before for variety. I don't drink alcohol, tea, coffee, fruit juice or fizzy drinks anyway as they exacerbate my IBS and reflux.

I have lost four inches around my waist since February and honestly, I feel really good, I stopped craving the sugar etc quite quickly but now I eat only small amounts if I fancy it. I don't really deny myself anything, but I consciously only eat smaller amounts of things I know aren't good for me. The aim is to change my eating habits for life, rather than in the short term.

I am really really stressed at the moment and have pmt so I have just eaten a huge bag of crisps and I feel bloated and tired and lethargic, horrible. I have other health problems (I'm a right catch me) so I need to eat like this to keep me well, if I continue to eat junk like I did tonight it starts to affect me physically and mentally (moods, energy levels, digestive problems, irregular periods, disturbed sleep, dry skin/hair/nails, eczema, sensitive bladder etc) , but its a long process to change ingrained lifetime habits.

But the side eeffect of the diet was that the eczema disappeared for months.

Tea tree oil works really well for me

It popped back for a lovely visit just in time for me to start university again next month and take my driving test next week. Creams have helped but I've also been moisturising every time I wash my hands which makes it look less contagious.

thanks, I'll try tea tree in a minute.

oh you poor thing Zombies!

is it contagious though?
I know the skin on our palms and soles are slightly different (no hair and don't get sunburnt) so I'm not worried about spreading to other parts of body but is this eczema be infectious to others?

good luck with your driving test - when is it?

Driving test in about four days.

My instructor says it would be an injustice if I don't pass, but so nervous. I have moisturiser in the car already so the examiner doesn't recoil in horror.

It is definitely not contagious. Neither or my kids or my DH have it and we are a very huggy, cuddly family. Plus obviously I hold the kid's hands with mine and our shoes are all in one big pile etc.

My dad has had it for as long as I can remember so I guess there is a genetic predisposition of some sort. I didn't develop it until after I had DC1 though, which is gutting.

It just looks horrible.

Hi United I've had a similar problem to that you've described all summer too. Think I've had it underlying for ages actually.

Since April I've tried every heavy moisturiser I could think of and nothing worked, and also Canesten (strongest anti-fungal they'd give me as am pregnant) which only worked in between my toes, not anywhere else), and Canesten Hydrocortisone, which also didn't really work. I went to the doctor and he said it mine a type of eczema which is common to hands and feet (can't remember what it's called).

What has been working for me is soaking feet in Oilatum before bed (relieves awful midnight itching), putting on a steroid cream morning and night (I was prescribed Betnovate, you might be able to get something stronger), and then finishing off with Aveeno cream, half an hour after applying the steroid.

I was using Flexitol for a while too which worked wonders for my dry heels but I have now switched to Aveeno to soothe the itching. It's def been a case of trial and error though. Fungal infections and eczema/dermatits can be very similar. Nice project for the summer!

If it is fungal, my mum swears my Daktarin/Daktacort. And I've read that Lamasil v good.

My Dad has this on his hands and feet and after it's got under control with medicated cream he controls it with La Roche Posay shower/moisturising products, which you can get from Boots.

Sorry long post but I really sympathise, it's been horrible!!!

ps the plus side of all this trial and error self-medicating is that my other non-eczema/fungally foot is now beautiful! Flexitol and regular moisturising have transformed it. I have come to the conclusion that feet are a constant work in progress if you want to keep them nice, so don't worry about needing to apply stuff forever - you'll find something that works and be able to control it.

And ref diet, my diet is pretty healthy... stress (and prob pregnancy in my case) is known to exacerbate eczema but don't beat yourself up about it. It's hard to avoid stress! I am sure skin stuff is partly hereditary/genes.

thanks ratqueen

we are going on holiday tomorrow so I will have a bit more time to pay attention to myself [hopeful].
also I'm hoping that seawater will help - a lot of skin problems improve with sea salt baths, what can be better than the real thing?

I'm going to see GP when back and will ask to get a swab - I think some bits are infected.

thanks for taking the time.

thanks for all replies so far everyone!