What to do if your child has itchy feet

Tinea pedis, also known as athlete's foot, is a fungal infection on the skin surface. Many children run and jump for a long time, and do not pay attention to changing shoes and socks in time, which will cause damage to their feet and athlete's foot. Children's athlete's foot needs timely anti-inflammatory and sterilization, and appropriate treatment and conditioning to prevent and control the phenomenon of athlete's foot from continuing to worsen.

The cause of tinea pedis in children is due to the invasion of the toes by epidermal fresh fungi, trichophyton or trichophyton pedis. Trichophyton rubrum has strong resistance, is difficult to control, and is associated with the Wei Qi and body fluids.

It gathers and does not disperse, causing the skin to become dry and moist. Tinea pedis is caused by thick stratum corneum, lack of sebum, abundant sweat glands, excessive sweating and moist feet, which are conducive to the growth and reproduction of fungi. It is also easy to infect each other when using public baths, public slippers, foot basins and towels.

What are the treatments for tinea pedis in children?

Tinea pedis and tinea manuum are not difficult to treat, but they are not easy to eradicate. One of the reasons is that people lack the perseverance to persist in treatment and forget to apply medicine as long as the itching stops. Therefore, you must persist until the skin no longer turns white and becomes normal and smooth. You must also persist in applying medicine or soaking your feet for 1 to 2 weeks. The second reason is that some people think that tinea pedis and tinea manuum are health-related diseases and that if they are cured they will lead to other diseases. In fact, this is not recognized in medicine. Some people lose confidence due to repeated infections, so it is also extremely important to use separate towels, basins, slippers, etc.

Oral western medicine for treating tinea pedis must be metabolized by the liver and kidneys, and has a relatively large impact on liver and kidney functions. Therefore, it is also crucial to choose the right medicine during the treatment of tinea pedis. Medication should be selected reasonably and accurately according to the patient's specific condition. Some drugs, such as Neosep, are quite effective in treating tinea pedis. It has a strong targeting effect, reaching the skin lesions from the outside to the inside, clearing blood toxins and deeply detoxifying and treating the internal organs, completely removing toxins from the body and improving blood quality.

Tinea pedis in children can seriously affect their quality of life. Tinea pedis can cause itching and pain in severe cases. Although mild cases will not cause obvious discomfort, it will cause a sense of inferiority when in public places such as swimming pools and gyms. In addition, tinea pedis and onychomycosis are contagious and will inevitably affect the health of the family, so foot disease prevention cannot be underestimated. Due to the lack of attention paid by patients, serious foot fungal infection is not only difficult to cure and easily cross-infected, but is also closely related to systemic diseases such as diabetes and vascular diseases.

Tinea pedis can also lead to secondary infections in other parts of the body. If treatment is not active, scratching can easily cause fungal infections in other parts of the body, such as tinea manuum, tinea corporis, tinea capitis, etc. What’s more serious is that scratching can lead to local bacterial infection, which can develop into lymphangitis, cellulitis and erysipelas, with endless consequences.