Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site rduxb.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!cord!hudson!bentley!ihnp1!ihnp4!rduxb!smh
From: smh@rduxb.UUCP (henning)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: athlete's foot
Message-ID: <653@rduxb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 26-Aug-85 10:18:42 EDT
Article-I.D.: rduxb.653
Posted: Mon Aug 26 10:18:42 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 27-Aug-85 06:23:05 EDT
References: <440@sdcc12.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA
Lines: 19

****                                                                 ****
From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA rduxb!smh

> For nearly two years now I have been battling athlete's foot
> between the same two toes and I can not get rid of it.  I have tried 
> nearly every over-the-counter medication ... without success.
> Cheers,

Are you perhaps getting reinfected before it can heal.  Whenever
I use a shower where the floor is wet like at the YMCA I always 
wear shower shoes.  I also wear them in motels and hotels.  I have
never gotten athletes foot since I was a kid over 25 years ago
and I see it all the time at the Y.  I fact I feel like saying
something to people who heap on the foot powder and ointment after
they get out of the shower.  Perhaps they should put their feet
in bags before they shower.  In schools, when a child gets athletes
foot of the head, which is ring worm, the kid is usually sent home.
The best cure for athletes foot that I have seen used is potassium
permanganate.