How to prevent and treat itchy athlete’s foot in children?

Since athlete's foot is easily contagious and children have relatively poor resistance, many children are infected with athlete's foot and have to endure the pain of it. In order to reduce pain, parents must take their children for active treatment. At the same time, in daily life, they should also pay attention to changing and washing their children's socks frequently, not letting their children wear other people's shoes, and ventilating used shoes in time. This can prevent children from getting athlete's foot!

Causes of athlete's foot in children

There are many reasons for children to get athlete's foot. Wearing other people's shoes is the easiest way to get athlete's foot. The survival ability of athlete's foot bacteria is particularly strong and it is easy to spread. Therefore, it is best not to wear other people's shoes. Not changing and washing socks frequently will also breed bacteria and cause athlete's foot. The bacteria on the feet are super powerful, so everyone must change socks for children frequently, and wash the socks with boiling water to kill the bacteria. Also, adults with athlete's foot should not wash their own socks with children's socks, as cross-infection is easy. Do not use the same basin. If someone in the family has athlete's foot and his shoes are placed in a damp corner of the shoe cabinet, the fungi in the shoes will multiply and be transmitted to the children, so you need to pay more attention to ventilation after wearing shoes.

What to do if your child has athlete's foot

Children should still receive active treatment after contracting athlete's foot. If children are not treated in time after contracting the disease, their lives will inevitably be affected. If we directly give children some medicine to treat it, we should buy some foot powder for them in time and put it in the foot washing water at home, which can help children get rid of athlete's foot. We should use boiling water, not warm water. We should wash and scald our feet slowly. At first, a layer of dead skin will fall off the soles of our feet. This is normal. If you do this once a week, the athlete's foot will naturally disappear.

How to prevent and treat athlete's foot in children?

1. Mothers should start paying attention to the intake of vitamin B from the time of pregnancy;

2. Babies should be given supplementary food in a timely manner;

3. Do not add alkaline substances when cooking porridge or noodles;

4. Actively prevent and treat gastrointestinal diseases of Zhaibao;

5. Correct children’s bad habits such as anorexia, partial eclipse, and picky eating.

6. To prevent fungi from adults from being transmitted to children, even if the adult does not have athlete's foot, do not put adult and children's clothes together. It is best to dry children's clothes in the sun with an open window.

7. Even if the father does not have athlete's foot and the mother does not have gynecological inflammation, they must not hold the child in the bathtub together. It is best to wash your hands before bathing the child and before holding the child after doing housework. Children's shoes should be placed in a ventilated and dry place. It is best to put them outdoors to dry and blow before wearing them. When friends and relatives come to visit, it is best to have the guests wear shoe covers and avoid using slippers, which can cause cross-infection of fungi.