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Wrong! Of course you can pick up the athlete's foot fungus while going barefoot! Just depends on where you're doing it: public swimming pools, gym or school locker/shower rooms, other warm humid environments where other people who already have the fungus are also walking barefoot. Even your own bathroom at home if someone who lives there brought it home from somewhere else. You can also pick the fungus up from soil that tends to stay wet enough. The fungus is pretty ubiquitous. Oh, BTW, you can get fungal infections on your hands too. Ever heard of ringworm or nail fungi? Both can occur on hands as well as feet or other places on the body. It is less common partially because your hands tend to stay drier and exposed to air most of the time.
Note the highlighted sentence...You don't "catch" athletes foot. The bugs are always there. Some people just react to it more or less vigorously than others. Diabetics tend to have a delayed/weakened immune response, so bugs can more easily get established than in non-diabetics....and "local conditions" can make a difference-- warm & wet make for good growing condtions.
Going barefoot is certainly more likely to cause skin trauma than wearing shoes (and if you live down south, you can pick up pin worms that way too). If your shoes cause problems, get shoes that fit, and the problem will be solved.
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Athlete's foot is not the same as dishydrotic eczema. I have dishydrotic eczema, and it cannot be cured, while athlete's foot can be cured with an antifungal treatment.
I am sure that symptoms of the two conditions can mimic each other, but dishydrotic eczema isn't a fungal infection. Fortunately, mine is limited to specific parts of the fingers and only flares up once or twice a year when the weather is particularly hot and humid.
As I said, Athlete's Foot is a specific form of the more generalized diagnosis DE (read my reference article)... An episode of DE can be treated and brought under control, but the pt has a tendency to get it again due to his particular status of genetic +/- environmental conditions.... Compare it to, say, DM-- you can control it but you can't cure it.
As I said, Athlete's Foot is a specific form of the more generalized diagnosis DE (read my reference article)... An episode of DE can be treated and brought under control, but the pt has a tendency to get it again due to his particular status of genetic +/- environmental conditions.... Compare it to, say, DM-- you can control it but you can't cure it.
I read the article. It does not say that athlete's foot is a form of DE. It says that DE can be triggered by a simultaneous fungal infection like athlete's foot. That's a big difference.
As I said...I have DE. I know all about it. It has a specific trigger for me (hot, humid weather) and treating it is pointless. It goes through a specific familiar cycle (itching, then blisters, then peeling skin) and clears up on its own in about 10 days.
Athlete's foot on the other hand is definitely a fungal infection and can be treated/cured with antifungals. Antifungals do nothing for the vast majority of cases of DE since it is not a fungal infection.
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Of course you can pick up the athlete's foot fungus while going barefoot! Just depends on where you're doing it: public swimming pools, gym or school locker/shower rooms, other warm humid environments where other people who already have the fungus are also walking barefoot. Even your own bathroom at home if someone who lives there brought it home from somewhere else. You can also pick the fungus up from soil that tends to stay wet enough. The fungus is pretty ubiquitous. Oh, BTW, you can get fungal infections on your hands too. Ever heard of ringworm or nail fungi? Both can occur on hands as well as feet or other places on the body. It is less common partially because your hands tend to stay drier and exposed to air most of the time.
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