can you get fungi toes from the pool?

In all my 30+ years of swimming and being around locker rooms, lakes, and the like the worst I've ever had is some athletes foot. Nothing a little "Fast Actin' Tenactin" wouldn't cure.

Causes of toenail fungus. www.permanente.net/.../541.pdf

Don't think it's from the pool probably the deck or the locker room. it's the same fungi as athletes foot but it grows in your nails and nailbeds. there's some topical treatments that will make it go away but you have to stay on it since nails grow so slowly AJ Today heard someone telling another in the elevator that he got fungi toenails from (he said he's sure) the swimming pool facility. Does that happen a lot?

maybe i'm wrong on this but i believe fungus likes warm, dark and moist. so if you're wondering why i'm still wearing flip-flops after labor day (halloween, thanksgiving, x-mas, etc)....thats why....well thats one reason anyway. i also figure that i save about six hours per year not having to don socks.

Here is something gross for you then..... My kid got a quarter size rash under his eye that turned out to be ringworm/fungal infection- and according to my pharmacist he most likely picked it up by always putting his goggles on the pool deck. Just think of the number of people that walk around the pool with gnarly toes and you will never want to set a bare foot or your goggles on the floor.:eeew:

Do you have a cat or dog at home, most ring worms are caused by pets. Have your pets checked. www.symptoms-ringworm-treatment.com/causes-of-ringworm.html Here is something gross for you then..... My kid got a quarter size rash under his eye that turned out to be ringworm/fungal infection- and according to my pharmacist he most likely picked it up by always putting his goggles on the pool deck. Just think of the number of people that walk around the pool with gnarly toes and you will never want to set a bare foot or your goggles on the floor.:eeew:

Very good odds of eliminating toenail fungus using an oral intake of Lamisil. But you gotta have a Rx for that. The cream version is over the counter but will probably not take care of it.

Probably should not share towels. I think the pools just put the towels in washing machine, which can hardly clean it. Sometimes see stains on towels :mad:

Laxity in swim pool staff. In the pool I swam in as a kid they used to have a lifeguard that checked the feet, they were not allowed in the pool if they had any thing wrong. If they did not have a complete shower, not allowed to enter the pool. That's the problem nowadays. The rules are posted. No Shower, No swim..... Bla Bla Bla........ and nobody enforces any of them. A couple of years ago I had to report to the staff a man swimming with numerous open, oozing, sores on his back. They said they couldn't risk offending him by seeming to target him (Political Correctness gone way too far) because he was of a certain ethnic group. I got out (I know I should have also sent a missive to the City, but I understood where the lifeguards were afraid of.)

We use to pick up funk of some sort from the beach sand. It was a long time ago and I don't remember what it was. My doc's recommendation: Keep a 'pan' of clorox and water beside the shower. Step into it before and after. DRY FEET COMPLETELY, with a hair dryer. Wear sandles when ever possible It did work wonders. Lainey