how do you get rid of toe jam and foot odor if you have it real bad?
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To get rid of Toe Jam..try washing your feet.  For foot odor, try washing your feet and use medicated foot powder.  You can also spray your shoes with lysol and put medicated foot powder in them.
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toejam is a fungus which grows in thew moist dark areas between the toes. i don't get it i wash my feet regulaly and give my feet air to breathe(remove socks for awhile0
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Everybody is familiar with this phenomenon. Most of us have a friend or relative who can clear out a room when they kick off their shoes. And even the sweetest smelling person can do a decent job stinking up a pair of shoes by running a few miles in them. So what's going on here? Why do your feet have a stronger odor than the rest of you does?\n\nThe main thing that feeds foot smell is sweat. With more than 250,000 sweat glands each, your feet are among the most perspiring parts of the body. In one day, each foot can produce more than a pint of sweat! Sweat is basically just salt and water, though, so it doesn't have a distinctive smell of its own. The smell is actually caused by bacteria on our skin that eats the sweat and excretes waste that has a strong odor. It's perfectly normal to have bacteria on your skin, and it doesn't ordinarily produce a noticeable smell, but sweat attracts bacteria and gives them a whole lot to feed on.\n\nOf course we sweat all over -- our hands have a comparable number of sweat glands, for example -- and most of the rest of our body doesn't particularly stink (the armpits being a notable exception. See How Sweat Works for details.) So what's different about our feet? The answer is our socks and shoes. The sweat our feet excrete can't easily escape into the air like the sweat our hands excretes -- it all collects on our skin and in our socks. The bacteria love this dark, damp feast and have a sort of feeding frenzy. When you take off your shoes, the smell that hits you is all the bacteria excretion that's collected on your feet and in your socks and shoes.\n\nThe main reason some people's feet (or more precisely, some people's socks and shoes) smell worse than other people's is that some people sweat more than other people. This is just one of the many variable physiological qualities of human beings. This is also why sometimes your feet smell much worse than at other times -- it all has to do with how much you sweat.\n\nSo, since foot odor is caused by bacteria digesting sweat, there are two main ways to reduce the stink. You can:\n\n    * decrease the amount of bacteria on your feet\n    * decrease the amount of sweat that collects on your feet and in your shoes \n\nReducing the level of bacteria is really a matter of cleanliness. To control the bacteria population on you feet, you should:\n\n    * wash your feet with strong anti-bacterial soap\n    * wear clean socks\n    * don't wear the same shoes everyday - give a pair of shoes 24 hours or more to air out before wearing them again \n\nTo reduce the amount of sweat that collects in your shoes, you should:\n\n    * wear well-ventilated shoes instead of very constrictive shoes, such as boots\n    * always wear socks, preferably made of cotton or other absorbent materials that absorb a lot of the sweat so the bacteria can't feed on it\n    * change your socks a few times a day\n    * buy some absorbent Odor-Eater type shoe inserts\n    * apply an antiperspirant to your feet \n\nIf your foot odor is really bad and these solutions don't help much, then you should see a doctor. There are a number of prescription drugs that can treat serious foot odor, some by killing bacteria and some by reducing foot sweat
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Everybody's feet sweat all the time, but pantyhose aren't as good as other kinds of socks at absorbing the sweat.  This means the extra moisture can build up, leading to stinky feet, etc.  Not fun.  I use Dr. Scholl's Odor Destroyers spray.  It works well, but I recommend spraying it outside, since when I breathe it in I feel it diminishes my lung capacity.
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1) Clean feet thoroughly. Bacteria stinks.\n2) Check for fungus. \n3) Use pleasant-smelling foot spray.\n4) Air out shoes in the sun and let baking soda sit in them for a while. If that doesn't help them, get new shoes.
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try foot reflexology\nthe use of good massage therpy will help
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Gold Bond Medicated Foot Powder.  If they are athletic shoes machine wash, and air dry them.  Add a 2 cap fulls of Chlorox Bleach to the water.  If they are leather take a moist towel, with water and diluted bleach, and wipe the inner soles and insides with the moistened towel.  Let air dry.  Bleach will get rid of any odor!  Bleach kills germs, bacteria, and viruses!  In your shoes lurks bacteria that is causing the odor.  Just day to day sweating in a shoe can cause this.  Make sure you are changing your socks daily!  Also if you are experiencing an itch you may have athletes foot, which is a fungus that can be treated with over the counter meds at your local pharmacists!  Hope this works for you!
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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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I did the same and didn't want to go to the doctor and ended up going anyway.... This is what he told me to do..\n\n\n1. Soak it in warm water for about 5 to 10 minutes. (adding something to the water is not necessary)!\n\n2. Dry it really well.\n\n3. Take some Hydrogen Peroxide put some on a Q-tip and apply it to the affected area.\n\n4. Rinse off the peroxide. Dry really well (blow dryer suggested) but not necessary.\n\n5. Next you will need to have some (Betadine) (Povidone Iodine Topical Solution). Take another q-tip dip it in and apply to the toe making sure you cover the whole affected area. \n\n6. Dry with a blow dryer to make sure it is really dry! The only time it should be covered with a band-aid or gauze is if you have your shoes on.. The more air it gets the better..\n\n7. This will have to be done three times a day.\n\nIf you do this it will get better and you shouldn't have to go to the Doc.  This is what i did and it worked!...It will take a while since you waited so long, but it will get better.\nThe nail will have to grow out before you can do anything about it.  When you trim your nails let them stick out a little not too much....This will help.  I know from experience this is no fun so....Good Luck!! :-)\n\nHope this helps you!\n\nIf you do all of this it should go away!\n\nHope this works for you! Hope you feel better!\n\n\nForgot to mention that it was really bad and infected and the doctor told me that if it didn't work i would have to have the toenail removed.  This really worked because i didn't have any surgery at all and the doctor was impressed that it ended up getting better with no surgery!  It was really puffy also.  Again good luck!!
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tell her to spray the inside of the shoes with anti odor spray then air dry it...tell her not to use the shoes everyday...let it dry for at least 24 hrs before using it again...if all else fails, buy new shoes...before putting on socks, make sure the feet are really dry, especially in between the toes(you can dry them with a hair dryer)...bacteria loves moisture, its what they eat...what smells are their feces.
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soak FEET in SALTY WARM WATER,,then apply FOOT and TOENAIL lotion
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With athletes foot the problem is because its a fungus the spores live in your socks, shoes and carpets... basically anywhere your feet have been! So the best plan is to carry on treating it for at least 5 days after your symptoms have disappeared. Then switch to an antifungal powder which you can use on a regular basis to keep it at bay :-)
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The clinical name for athletes foot is "ringworm of the feet"\n\n"Athlete's foot is caused by a fungus that thrives in warm, moist conditions and the closed shoes present a good 'incubator' for these organisms, That's why athlete's foot is quite uncommon in primitive cultures where shoes are not worn.\n\nWhenever you take off or put on your socks, it's a good practice to rub a sock up and down your toe webs, That keeps the areas between your toes dry, which is essential in preventing and treating athlete's foot.\n\nBaking soda is a cheaper alternative to expensive foot powders, yet it does essentially the same thing. Either sprinkle it on dry or make a paste by moistening one tablespoon of baking soda with lukewarm water.  Rub the mixture on your feet and between your toes. After about 15 minutes, rinse it off and dry thoroughly.\n\nUse your hair dryer on your feet to dry them more effectively than you can with a towel.  And blowing air from your hair dryer into your shoes is a good way to dry them out after you wear them.\n\nRubbing or spraying antiperspirant on your feet can keep them from sweating, You can use the same brand you use on your underarms. As long as it contains aluminum chlorohydrate, the active drying ingredient, it will work.\n\nDisinfect your shoes, Lysol and other household disinfectants can kill off any living fungus spores. After you take off your shoes, rub the insides with a cloth or paper towel that has a dab of disinfectant. (Then use that hair dryer to dry out the insides of the shoes).\n\nDon't use creams. Antifungal creams have the right ingredients but the wrong way of presenting them. "The problem with creams is that they help trap moisture, especially between toes. Solutions are much better than creams.  While solutions are more effective for remedying, creams can be used to help prevent athlete's foot.\n\nRemove dead skin. When your condition starts to improve, remove any dead skin. Dead skin houses fungus that can reinfect you. To remove it, use a bristled scrub brush on the entire foot and a baby bottle "nipple brush" on toe webs. And brush in the shower, so the dead skin goes down the drain without touching other parts of your body.\n\nI hope this information helps you...  Good luck!!
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I am so glad you asked.\nEpson salt and really hot water-soak your infected foot. If you get them concurrently like I had in the past, go to the podiatrist, have him to a procedure on you that consists of numbing your toe up, cutting the nail off, jabbing huge q-tips with a chemical called phenyll on them down  into your  sides of the toe, and wrapping them up and wabam, ur done. Umm, I made that sounds REALLY painnful, but it is not at all, I watched the whole thing conscious, but then again, I was numbed up. Have fun, andif  you have any further questions email me at lawguy04_1984@hotmail.com... :-)
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it is a build up of bacteria due to moisture and heat try wearing leather shoes and put alum in them
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i would bring it to a professional dry cleaner.  if thats too expensive, they sell suede shoe cleaner spray and an eraser.  so depending on whats dirty or if its a stain that might be a cheaper alternative.  i just bought the eraser for my shoe from footlocker.  it works pretty well.  they have the spray also.
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Yellow toenails is an indicator that your body is out of ph balance.\n\nGet the nutrition basics down and your bodies signal will not have been in vain.\n\nDrinking 6-8 glasses of distilled water with a pinch of unrefined sea salt will help your toes and may cure what may have been coming down the line.\nhttp://www.curezone.com/foods/watercure.asp\n\nWell fitting shoes could help.\n\nSoaking your feet in Epsom Salts could help.\n\nSoaking your feet in apple cider vinegar(the cheap stuff from the grocery store) will help\n\nSoaking your feet in dilluted lemon juice will help\n\nDrinking Lemon Water will help\n\nA drop of Wild Oregano Oil on each nail could zap fungus.\n\nColloidal Silver externally could help.\n\nSunlight could help...let the sun shine in. Vitamin D from sunlight and not from mucous milk could help significantly. \n\nEating more raw fruits and vegetables will help\n\nI would drink a daily drink of half unsweetened apple juice/grape juice with a tablespoon of raw unfiltered apple cider vinegar, a dash of turmeric, cinnamon, turmeric, and one drop of wild oregano oil. When the yellowing fades, I would continue the drink but quit using the oregano oil.\n\nhttp://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=179&t=32541\nhttp://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=740&t=32560\nhttp://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=172&t=32588\nhttp://curezone.com/blogs/f.asp?f=605&t=30517\n\nIt is good that you are picking up on your bodies cues to hydrate itself and give your body good circulation. Do what works for you and stick with it to achieve