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OS athlete's foot remedy?
lady_lucan
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OH (honest!) is getting through a bottle of proprietary spray (2.75ish) a week (!) this warm weather. Any suggestions? Ta, L.
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Try making sure his feet are completely dry after a bath/ shower (use a hair dryer on a cool setting) and that he wears cotton socks - this should help a bit.
But the main thing that will help is tea tree oil. It's anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-bacterial. I used on DS's long standing athletes foot and it was like magic - completely gone in five days! Only problem is that as soons as he went back to school he got re-infected again so he uses tea tree oil everyday and this has stopped any problems.
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Cheers Thirty - tea tree could be the all round blokey ailments zapper!
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Hi,
At our home it's normally shoes off at the door, and we go around barefooted. No socks etc to hold in the moisture, which is what the fungus likes.
Possibly use flip/flops when he's got it, to stop it being passed around the family.
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I'm not too sure but i think Natural Yoghurt would work as it's a yeast/ fungal infection.
I know that ladies can use it when they get thrush so i'm sure if he can stand having his feet in a bowl of yoghurt for a couple of hours while watching the telly it would clear it up a treat.
HTH
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thirty_dancing wrote:Try making sure his feet are completely dry after a bath/ shower (use a hair dryer on a cool setting) and that he wears cotton socks - this should help a bit.
But the main thing that will help is tea tree oil. It's anti-fungal, anti-viral and anti-bacterial. I used on DS's long standing athletes foot and it was like magic - completely gone in five days! Only problem is that as soons as he went back to school he got re-infected again so he uses tea tree oil everyday and this has stopped any problems.
Hope this helps
how did you use the tea tree oil? neat? dabb it on with cotton wool?0
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