Do you wear something on your feet in the locker room or not?
With all the icky stuff around, I started to wear plastic slides in the locker, shower & on to the pool deck since they let all the parents wear their outside shoes on the deck to watch their kids do lessons.
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Yeh, I've definitely had athlete's foot for as long as I can remember. Finally I've started battling it. Wearing flip flops at practice for past couple weeks and using Tinactin. Not sure this is a winnable war.
At meets, I've started wearing sneakers on deck and only taking them off right before I need to swim. I had chronic athlete's foot throughout my swim career until I got a secondary MRSA (drug-resistant staph) infection through the cracks between my toes. It made me very sick for several weeks and I was out of the water for about a month. The IV antibiotics I was on for 2 weeks cost about $600/day (glad to have insurance!). It is quite possible the MRSA infection came from the pool facility.
Since then, I have been very careful about taking care of my feet. I clean them twice a day making sure I rub off all dead skin and carefully dry between each toe. I use that hand-sanitizer gel after washing or swimming - it helps get moisture out. I wear sandals on the pool deck and in the lockerrooms and leave them poolside while I swim. They have better traction than my street shoes and are slides, not flip-flops so they don't twist around. My street shoes are selected for function more so than style; they have a wide toe box and breathable uppers.
I never had much luck with fungicides either topical or systemic, nor with foot powder.
Updated: yeah, I thought shower shoes were for wimps until I became one myself. :)
Yeh, I've definitely had athlete's foot for as long as I can remember. Finally I've started battling it. Wearing flip flops at practice for past couple weeks and using Tinactin. Not sure this is a winnable war.
At meets, I've started wearing sneakers on deck and only taking them off right before I need to swim. I had chronic athlete's foot throughout my swim career until I got a secondary MRSA (drug-resistant staph) infection through the cracks between my toes. It made me very sick for several weeks and I was out of the water for about a month. The IV antibiotics I was on for 2 weeks cost about $600/day (glad to have insurance!). It is quite possible the MRSA infection came from the pool facility.
Since then, I have been very careful about taking care of my feet. I clean them twice a day making sure I rub off all dead skin and carefully dry between each toe. I use that hand-sanitizer gel after washing or swimming - it helps get moisture out. I wear sandals on the pool deck and in the lockerrooms and leave them poolside while I swim. They have better traction than my street shoes and are slides, not flip-flops so they don't twist around. My street shoes are selected for function more so than style; they have a wide toe box and breathable uppers.
I never had much luck with fungicides either topical or systemic, nor with foot powder.
Updated: yeah, I thought shower shoes were for wimps until I became one myself. :)
