Would stepping in a solution of mild bleach water help prevent or help cure athletes foot?
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Soak your feet in 1 part vinegar and 5 parts water, for about 10 minutes daily.
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Baby powder works, I use it when I play Basket Ball to absorb the sweat.\n\nYou may want to use some medicated foot powder like Gold Bonds if you are really having an odor problem.
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Use a heating pad and make up a cotton compress with Castor oil (put a plastic bag around your whole foot, because it can get messy.) It should take about two weeks if you apply it nightly for 30 minutes. If that doesn't work, see a doctor.
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Vinegar....to kill foot odor -causing bacteria,soak feet in solution of one part vinegar(any type) and four parts hot water night;y for 15 minutes for one week. The feet should be immersed up to the ankles.  Rinse with cold water at the end of the soak...Repeat this routine as needed....i got this info from a book....try it
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Here's a website that can help.  It talks about how to get rid of foot odor and what causes it... If you'd like to know.\nAnd with a name like "footsmart" I think they'd know what theyre talking about.\nGood luck.\n\nhttp://www.footsmart.com/Foot-Hygiene-Foot-Odor-Remedy.aspx
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soak FEET in SALTY WARM WATER,,then apply FOOT and TOENAIL lotion
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Remedy for foot odor.\n\nTo eliminate foot odor, soak your feet several times a week in one-third cup of natural apple cider vinegar added to a small pan of warm water.\n\nOr, use tea. The tannic acid found in tea can help eliminate foot odor. Make a pot of tea, without adding sugar or lemon, and pour it into a dishpan. Wait until the tea is no longer too hot, then soak your feet in it for ten minutes. Soap and water should remove any stain the tea leaves on your feet.\n\nSprinkle baking soda inside your shoes to absorb moisture and odor.\n\nGet 15 to 30 milligrams of Zinc per day either alone or in your Multi-vitamin. This should reduce or eliminate the odor within a week or two. The zinc may make the skin more resistant to the bacteria causing the odor. Don't take more than 30 mg. of zinc without medical supervision since high levels of zinc can interfere with the absorption of copper and can damage the immune system.\n\nShoes made with natural materials like leather breathe better than man-made materials like plastic, allowing heat to escape.
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Interesting, so if it happens ONLY when you bath horses and you use water tight boots then it can't be related to anything in the water or soap your using. That would be my first guess that your sensitve to the soap or other chemical your using. If you mean sensitive by allergic reaction then you will have to narrow down whats toching your feet before it happens. It could be anything from your socks to the material in the boots thats causing the reaction. If it presists see your Dr.
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That amount of Clorox type bleach would probably not harm an adult provided it would be diluted  quickly by drinking a couple of glasses of water.
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The very best thing to do at this point - my son has the same problem from time to time & here's what his dr said (this way you get dr advice but don't have to go to the dr) Soak your foot in epsom salts dissolved in hot water a couple of times a day until the redness & soreness goes away. Don't bandage it - if possible wear open toed shoes until it heals. It won't get seriously infected if you keep doing the soaks. In the future, keep your toe nail trimmed straight across to prevent it from becoming ingrown again. The peroxide isn't as good an idea but it can't hurt to put some of the triple antibiotic ointment on each night. Good luck & I hope you feel better soon!!!
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Unless you are diabetic, I reckon you have athletes foot. There is a new cream that's just come out that tackles it in just one application but I can't remember the name of it. There are a lot of different treatments that you can get from your pharmacy & they don't cost too much.
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You have to make sure your shower, bath mat, shoes and socks have been treated/washed as well. They carry the bacteria so even if you are treating your feet, if you are still showering or using the infected surfaces (bath mat, shower, shoes etc) then the fungus wont go away. If you have cleaned everything and you still cant get rid of the fungus, id go to a doctor just to make sure it really is athletes foot and not something else.
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Alcohol on a cotton ball and scrub, scrub away. It usually works. If not then nail file and scrap the skin...EASILY and that will definitely do it! Don't wear those shoes anymore!
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Iodine is what my foot doctor gave me to put directly on it and bandage it up....issues went away after one use.
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Athlete's Foot is just a common nickname for tinea pedis, or tinea fungus infection of the foot. If it's on the body, we call it Ringworm (because it makes expanding areas like rings, but it's no worm, same fungus.) If you have jock itch, it's tinea cruris (tinea of the crotch, literally.) \n\nAnyone who walks on an infected area like a gym floor or hotel bathroom floor can pick up tinea pedis--Athlete's Foot, whether you are playing serious racketball at the gym or serious chess at a tournament in a hotel.\n\nThere are a number of sprays and creams for athlete's foot. Lotrimin, Tinactin, Niconazole to name a few. If you don't get relief from one of these ingredients, look at the one you bought and buy another brand with DIFFERENT active ingredients.\n\nMeanwhile, buy a pair of flip-flops or thongs or other rubber bathshoes and never go barefoot at the pool, the hotel or the gym on any of the wet surfaces. Dry your feet after washing them and wash your socks in hot water (white tube socks are best, you can bleach them.) Change your shoes every day, meaning have two pairs if you can afford that and let your shoes dry out after wearing one day--wear the other pair.
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This works! \n\nGet some Grout from home depot and apply to bottom of shoes.  You'll get better traction and feel when practicing... eventually, you'll get good enough to where you don't need the grout. \n\nAnd don't worry, the grout doesn't harden for at least 2 hours so If you wipe it off by then, it won't stain the board.
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It sounds like athletes feet. But no matter what it is go buy a gallon jug of Apple Cider Vinegar it's about $3.00 pour it all in a tub soak your feet for as long as you can sit there everyday till it goes away a day or two should do it . Vinegar cures a lot of things. Don't add water pure vinegar. NO ONE else answered your ? I was only trying to help I did say no matter what you have the vinegar will cure it.ASK YOUR DOCTOR