Athlete's foot history and symptoms

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• The most common symptom of Athlete’s foot is cracked, flaking, peeling skin between the toes or side of the foot. Other symptoms can include:

1. Red and itchy skin
2. Burning or stinging pain
3. Blisters that ooze or get crusty

• Blisters and cracked skin may lead to exposed raw tissue, pain, swelling, and inflammation.
• Secondary bacterial infection can accompany the fungal infection, sometimes requiring a course of oral antibiotics.^[1][2]
• Affected areas appear erythematous with whitish scaly skin.
• Feet are usually malodorous.
• Rarely, patients can have ulcerative lesions, particularly in diabetic patients.^[3]
• The infection can be spread to other areas of the body, such as the groin, and usually is called by a different name once it spreads, such as tinea corporis on the body or limbs and tinea cruris (jock itch or dhobi itch) for an infection of the groin.
• Tinea pedis most often manifests between the toes, with the space between the fourth and fifth digits most commonly afflicted.^[4][5][6]

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