What is the best medicine to treat athlete's foot

When facing the problem of athlete's foot, if you want to solve it effectively, you cannot use the methods blindly, but must use scientific treatment. For common erosive athlete's foot, you can soak it in 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution, or use tinea versicolor ointment.

1. Erosive type:

First soak in 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution or 0.1% refonal solution, then apply gentian violet or athlete's foot powder externally, twice a day. After it dries, apply athlete's foot spirit or tinea versicolor ointment externally, twice a day.

2. Blister type:

Apply clotrimazole tinea lotion or compound salicylic acid tincture once a day after soaking your feet in hot water. After the skin is dry, apply athlete's foot cream or tinea pedis ointment.

3. Keratinic type:

You can use compound benzoic acid ointment externally or alternate with compound salicylic acid alcohol for external use, once in the morning and once in the evening. It is best to wrap the area with plastic film after applying the medicine so that the medicine can penetrate into the thick skin and facilitate peeling off the thick skin.

4. Misunderstandings about athlete's foot treatment:

a. Refuse drug treatment: After the skin is stimulated by these stimuli, the itching becomes more severe, forming a vicious cycle of scratching, the more itchy it becomes, and the more itchy it becomes, the more scratching it becomes, until the itching can be stopped by scratching. In this way, the bacteria and dirt on the hands and nails will naturally fall into the affected area, easily causing secondary bacterial infection. Therefore, once athlete's foot is discovered, medication should be used for treatment as soon as possible.

b. Randomly apply medicine: Many people think that they can just look at the advertisements and buy some medicine at the drugstore. In fact, this is very likely to lead to misdiagnosis and delayed treatment. Patients should go to the dermatology department of a regular hospital for a confirmed diagnosis first, and then receive scientific treatment according to the treatment recommended by the doctor.