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.
"Athlete's foot" or tinea pedis is fungus growing on the feet. The bugs responsible are usually Trichophyton and also Candida. These are the same microbes that cause jock itch and ringworm. An interesting peice of fact is the song "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis was inspired by a very bad case of Tinea cruis.
Anyway, the spores are everywhere we live, work and swim, but infection requires warm, dark and damp areas. Irritated skin and areas that rub will increase opportunity for infection, and some people seem to be more resistant to it catch it than others.
Prevention - Keep feet dry and dont provide an environment for it to grow
"Athlete's foot" or tinea pedis is fungus growing on the feet. The bugs responsible are usually Trichophyton and also Candida. These are the same microbes that cause jock itch and ringworm. An interesting peice of fact is the song "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis was inspired by a very bad case of Tinea cruis.
Anyway, the spores are everywhere we live, work and swim, but infection requires warm, dark and damp areas. Irritated skin and areas that rub will increase opportunity for infection, and some people seem to be more resistant to it catch it than others.
Prevention - Keep feet dry and dont provide an environment for it to grow
