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Athlete's foot history and symptoms

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History and Symptoms

History and Symptoms

  • 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]
References

References

  1. ↑ Gupta AK, Skinner AR, Cooper EA (2003). “Interdigital tinea pedis (dermatophytosis simplex and complex) and treatment with ciclopirox 0.77% gel”. Int. J. Dermatol. 42 (Suppl 1): 23–7. doi:10.1046/j.1365-4362.42.s1.1.x. PMID 12895184.
  2. ↑ Guttman, C (2003). “Secondary bacterial infection always accompanies interdigital tinea pedis”. Dermatol Times. 4: S12. doi:10.1046/j.1365-4362.42.s1.1.x. line feed character in |title= at position 37 (help)
  3. ↑ Akkus G, Evran M, Gungor D, Karakas M, Sert M, Tetiker T (2016). “Tinea pedis and onychomycosis frequency in diabetes mellitus patients and diabetic foot ulcers. A cross sectional – observational study”. Pak J Med Sci. 32 (4): 891–5. doi:10.12669/pjms.324.10027. PMC 5017097. PMID 27648034.
  4. ↑ Al Hasan M, Fitzgerald SM, Saoudian M, Krishnaswamy G (2004). “Dermatology for the practicing allergist: Tinea pedis and its complications”. Clinical and Molecular Allergy. 2 (1): 5. doi:10.1186/1476-7961-2-5. PMID 15050029.
  5. ↑ Hainer BL (2003). “Dermatophyte infections”. American family physician. 67 (1): 101–8. PMID 12537173.
  6. ↑ Hirschmann JV, Raugi GJ (2000). “Pustular tinea pedis”. J. Am. Acad. Dermatol. 42 (1 Pt 1): 132–3. doi:10.1016/S0190-9622(00)90022-7. PMID 10607333.

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