Week before last
I stayed in a hotel room with a slow running drain. End of the week I had a particularly virulent case of athelete’s foot. I used a whole damned tube of gyne-lotrimin getting rid of it. Don’t know why but the cooch version of the stuff seems to work better than the commonly available hoof version. Talk about pussyfooting around.
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As someone who has no problem using a pink or yellow razor if it happens to be cheaper/better than a blue or grey one, I’ll have to remember this tip.
Don’t waste the money, just use witch hazel. Works
And … clean out all of your tub/showers with a bleach solution. The athlete’s foot fungus loves those places and will hang out there happily.
A simple bleach and water solution will dispose of the fungus. (You do know not to use it full strength on stuff, right? I’m always amazed at the people who think if a cup of bleach in water is good, a bottle of bleach by itself is better. It’s not.) If you want to follow up with some Lysol that’s good too. For those rare times I’m in a hotel bathroom I often carry Lysol and spray down the fixtures before I use them, especially the tub/shower area.
Good luck.
Jenny
Bleach on some plastic tub enclosures might not be so good.
Witch hazel? Man, haven’t heard of that for a while. In the ’60’s my mother thought all ailments could be cured by liberal application of Phisohex, witch hazel, or merthiolate. My father would pour whiskey on it behind her back to make sure it took.
Witch hazel is not a fungicide.
Neither is the other old wives’ tale standby.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2700/can-urinating-on-your-feet-in-the-shower-cure-athletes-foot
Jenny
Never heard of gyno-lotrimin…
… for athelete’s hooch…. ain’t that what Sandra Fluke was complaining about?
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
It wonders me how I made it to the ago of 68 never having a case, dose, waddever of Athlete’s foot? I showered with everyone else in Hah Skrool, Boy Shouts and before and after swimming lessons at the “Y”. Half the guys there were miserable with it. Maybe is was because my Ma was fanatic about diluted sodium hyperclorate (1/2 C clorox in a gallon of water) to scrub out the tub and the bathroom floor at home. I also had to wash my widdle footsies with Lifebuoy soap.
Gerry N.
Can’t speak to Witch Hazel being a fungicide or not, but I’ve used it several times and it has worked every time. Don’t care about the mechanism, just the results.
We don’t use witch hazel, but I have become rather enamored with Tea Tree Oil as a universal ‘external owie/rash/zit’ cure.
The cooch fungicide is Miconazole 2%, try to buy it without the dam syringes which make it more expensive.
Ketoconazole is far more effective, you can get it in shampoo or cream form OTC at 1%, or a doc can R/X it at 2%. I have a chronic foot-rot I got in ‘Nam War One, and it is compounded by the lesions causing a local allergic reaction. I use the 2% shampoo as a topical dressing and they are gone two days after they pop.
Dad told me: in the 30’s we’d go barefoot in the pasture. That fixed it for him. Fresh, green, slick manure would kill it. I’ve run that stuff through my fingers, been splashed all over with it, had it in my hair and eyes, but never on my bare feet, so I can’t attest to it’s efficacy.