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Foot Tinea
It's small, it's invisible, it feeds on your toes. Alright! It's not a tropical version of Jack Frost. It's tinea!
Don't you hate tinea? You just decided to get fit and go to the gym and what do you get for your troubles? Tinea! And now the whole family is getting it. And it never ever wants to go away!
Do I have a treatment for it? Does Sydney Harbour have a bridge?
First The Environment
- Clean all wet surfaces. You knew that, but I bet you did not know to do it with Potassium Permanganate, did you?
- Potassium Permanganate is also known by its pet name of Condy's
- Crystals. You get it from your friendly chemist and it works like a charm.
- Follow the direction on the packet to dissolve the crystals.
- Clean the bath/ shower/ bathroom floor.
- For those of you lucky enough to have a pool, clean the area around the pool, especially in spots where water tend to stagnate or not dry off easily, that's where they breed.
- Keep up the above for several weeks, it's amazing how the little beggars can hide.
- After a spell of wet, hot weather do another Condy Crystals purge to avoid recurrence.
Now The Feet
Tinea can go from a bit annoying to looking like a leper with every stage in between. So here are treatments for your tootsies in increasing degree of potency.
- Soak your feet in warm salty water, a handful per bucket. Once a day for a least ten minutes.
- Paint the affected parts with lavender oil.
- If lavender oil makes it giggle, move up to tea tree oil.
- If it eats tea tree for breakfast, hit it with lemon oil.
- If it trembles but does not die, crack a few capsules of garlic oil on it (sorry about your socks, you needed new pairs anyway!)
We are getting close to the leper end of the spectrum now. No more Mister Nice Guy!
* Remember the Potassium Permanganate? Well, use it on your toes, it works wonder. You have to use it for a while, depending on the gravity of the situation, sometimes for months. The only drawback with this remedy is that it makes your toes and nails look... well.. black!
Do all of these oily things daily of course. Preferably after a shower and before bed. Replace shoes and socks with bare feet, sandals or thongs whenever you can. You need to be persistent to really beat the little nuisance but it's worse a little trouble to avoid the rotten toe syndrome.
PONGY FEET? NO PROBLEMS!
Do you live with one of these people who only take their sneakers off to go to bed because you MAKE THEM DO IT and whose feet smell like a container full of French cheeses forgotten on seaside docks for a week? Have no fear Granny is here!
The Magic No More Pong Powder
Here is a really good and cheap way to remedy the problem (apart from throwing out the sneakers).
A container of baby powder, they are about 200grms
Epsom salts, about 100gms
One teaspoon of Lavender essential oil and/or one teaspoon of Peppermint oil (or half of each).
Mix the above in a bowl; the oil must be completely absorbed, and put back in a dusting container. Sprinkle generously in the sneakers and on the offending feet (if their owner will let you). Voila!
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