Home Remedies For Athletes Feet
Kevin Pederson
Quite a common skin problem, Athlete's foot affects mostly men and young
people. This skin problem can be found in the area between the toes, soles
of feet fingernails and toenails. Athlete's foot is caused by a fungus
called tinea pedis living off the dead skin cells and thriving in moist warm
places such as gyms, locker rooms, showers and swimming pools. If you come
in contact with wet floors or touch infected socks and shoes, you can
contract this disease.
Symptoms are burning sensation between affected areas, itching, redness,
scaling and blistering.
Preventing Athlete’s foot -
- To combat athlete's foot, keep your feet dry all the times. After
drying, remove any loose skin to allow penetration of medication to the
infected area.
- Use medicated powder or baking soda in your shoes and socks. It will
soak up some of the perspiration and help neutralize the skin.
- Wear cotton or absorbent socks and wash them in hot water with
bleach.
- Give your shoes lots of space to breathe and ample time to dry
before wearing them again.
- Wipe the inside of the shoes with white vinegar or spray a
disinfectant.
- Use antiperspirants to keep down the sweating.
- Dry them thoroughly with towel or hair dryer.
Natural Home remedies for Athlete's foot -
- Add 40 drops of tea tree oil to a small quantity of water or olive
oil and soak your feet in it for 10 minutes. Towel dry and blow dry to
ensure no presence of any moisture. If you still find area still moist, put
few drops of tea tree oil on the affected area.
- Dab diluted alcohol on affected area and allow it to dry. The
alcohol dissolves the water; helps dry the skin and reduce the risk of
attracting the fungus.
- Soak your feet in mixture of apple cider vinegar and water for 10
minutes daily until the symptoms disappear. Apple cider vinegar with its
antifungal properties will relieve the itching, peeling and kill the fungus.
Instead of soaking, you can also coat the fungus with a cotton ball dipped
in apple cider vinegar
- Immerse the affected areas in a solution of baking soda and water
for about 30 minutes daily.
- Mix six tbsp of dried chaparral to one quart of boiling cheap
whiskey or wine. Reduce and simmer for 20 minutes. Remove and steep for 8
hours. Soak your feet in this solution.
- Boil 4 cups of water, add 8-10 broken sticks of cinnamon; reduce
heat and simmer for 5 minutes; remove and steep for 45 minutes. Use as a
foot bath. Cinnamon effectively combats both yeast and fungal infections.
- Put some freshly crushed garlic on the affected area and leave it on
for half an hour; wash with water. Do this once a day for a week.
Alternatively you can use diluted garlic juice, garlic powder or a clove of
raw garlic. Garlic is an excellent antibiotic that can kill the fungus
causing athlete's foot.
- Add one ounce of chopped fresh ginger to one cup of boiled water and
simmer for 20 minutes. Let it cool and apply twice a day.
- Rub raw honey on the infected areas before bedtime. Cover the feet
with an old sock and leave it overnight.
- Soak the affected area in herbal tea foot bath of goldenseal and
thyme once a day.
- Mix approx 80 - 90 drops of Grapefruit seed extract to two ounce of
water and apply to the affected areas with a cotton ball two or three times
a day.
- Mix 2 tsp of salt to a pint of warm water and soak your feet for 10
- 15 minutes and dry thoroughly. The salt kills the fungus and reduces
perspiration.
The reader of this article should exercise all precautions while following
instructions on the recipes from this article. Avoid using if you are
allergic to something. The responsibility lies with the reader, not the
site, and the writer.
Kevin Pederson manages number of home remedies sites like
http://www.home-remedies-for-you.com Athlete’s foot, a contiguous
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mostly affects men. Read to know some home remedies for athlete’s foot.
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