Yesterday, we learned from some of the major hospitals in the Second Hospital of Jiaotong University that the number of patients who came to the hospital due to athlete's foot was increasing. Some patients even caused lymphatic and lower extremity erysipelas, etc. due to insufficient attention to the athlete's foot. disease.
According to Wang Wanju, a professor of dermatology at the Second Hospital of Jiaotong University, the incidence of athlete's foot has increased significantly as the climate gets hotter. According to incomplete statistics, the incidence of summer athlete's foot in the normal population is 30% to 40%. Some groups of people, such as athletes and miners and soldiers who wear gas-tight shoes for a long time, have an incidence of footbirth of up to 60%. Professor Wang explained that the reasons for contracting foot rot fungi are related to the following factors: bathing in public baths, wearing public slippers, and indirect contact with infections with public towels; the current popular bath foot, if the foot box, slippers and Socks can be infected with the disease; other patients believe that the athlete's foot is a "little disease" does not go to treatment, which led to the delay of the disease; some immune function or other diseases are also susceptible to disease.
Prof. Wang reminded that athlete's foot can not only be transmitted to others, but also can infect itself, causing genital warts, hyperthyroidism and hand, foot and ringworm, if not treated in time can cause lymphatic, lower limb erysipelas, and even sepsis and other complications. Prevention of tinea pedis should pay attention to personal hygiene, do not share towels, slippers, footbath, etc., frequently change socks, do not wear shoes that are not ventilated and breathable, and actively treat foot hyperhidrosis, if the symptoms of athlete's foot have already emerged active treatment, currently The medical community has reached a consensus on the treatment of athlete's foot. It is entirely possible to completely cure the athlete's foot by taking both medicine and medicine.