Is tinea pedis highly contagious?

Tinea pedis is contagious, which is what we usually call athlete's foot. It can be divided into different types, such as blister type and immersion type. If you want to prevent it effectively, you must pay attention to cleanliness and hygiene to avoid viral infection.

1. Most types of athlete's foot that are contagious are: Blister type: blisters ranging in size from millet to mung bean size appear on the palms and soles, with thick walls and itching. When secondary bacterial infection occurs, the blister fluid changes from clear to turbid, and the surrounding area becomes red and swollen. Keratotic and scaly type: The palms and soles are obviously keratinized, the skin is thickened, rough, desquamated, and cracked. Immersion type: The areas between the fingers and toes are damp, whitish, with moist desquamation and itching. Erosion and bacterial infection may occur, which manifests as local redness, swelling, heat and pain. Treatment method: Usually, after the symptoms of athlete's foot are eliminated, the fungus still survives in the skin scales or shoes and socks. When encountering a humid and warm environment, they will multiply in large numbers and cause a recurrence of athlete's foot.

2. Therefore, when using topical antifungal drugs to treat athlete's foot, you should still continue to use the drugs for 1-2 weeks after the surface symptoms disappear. Keeping shoes and socks dry and paying attention to hygiene can also reduce recurrences. Methods to relieve itching; The most troublesome thing for patients with athlete's foot is "itching". Mild itching can make people anxious, while severe itching can make people feel helpless. When they can no longer bear it, they will just scratch, rub, and even break the skin with their hands, as if they can only feel relieved by scratching into the muscles. So how can we relieve the annoying itch of athlete's foot? To solve the "itch" of athlete's foot, we must first understand the cause of athlete's foot. Modern medicine has proven that athlete's foot is caused by fungal infection. The skin on our feet, like the skin on other parts of the body, is constantly metabolizing every day and dandruff is shed at any time. These dandruffs mixed with sweat, dust, etc. accumulate between the toes and in the skin folds. If you wear shoes and socks that are not breathable, the temperature and humidity of the feet will increase, and fungi will breed and multiply in them, thus forming athlete's foot. From the above causes of athlete's foot, it is not difficult to know that "itching" is only a superficial symptom of athlete's foot, and it is a symptom. To achieve the goal of eliminating "itching", the key is to completely eliminate the fungi that cause athlete's foot, that is, to cure the root cause.

3. So how can we cure the root cause? In other words, how can we kill these athlete's foot fungi? There are many kinds of medicines on the market for treating athlete's foot, and their chemical compositions and therapeutic effects are also different. Because fungi have extremely strong vitality and reproduction. Therefore, it is difficult for general drugs to completely kill fungi. Therefore, many patients have reported that after taking the medicine, the symptoms of athlete's foot "itching" gradually weakened or even disappeared, but then continued to occur. The main reason is that the medicine is not strong enough and fails to really kill these stubborn athlete's foot fungi. Therefore, when choosing athlete's foot medicine, you should choose one with strong bactericidal effect and long duration of efficacy. In fact, most people have athlete's foot, but the degree varies. As long as you don't wear non-breathable shoes and socks for a long time, use other people's foot basins, slippers, bathtubs and towels, and walk barefoot in public bathrooms, swimming pools and carpets, you can avoid athlete's foot infection.