Athlete's foot

I think that anyone ever contracted athlete's foot. Very annoying as athlete's foot can be quite persistent. If I may believe my doctor this fungus can be controled with medication as miconazole, the active substance e.g. in Daktarin. However, I have a very different experience with athlete's foot. Perhaps the treatment described may be applied to you if you have this fungus.

How does athlete's foot arise and what are the symptoms?

Athlete's foot occurs in the moist skin. You need an infection and this may very often be found in (shared) showers.
After an infection, you see in the course of time a scaling of the skin between the toes, but there may also arise vesicles (e.g. under the feet) where a clear fluid comes out.

My athlete's foot and treatments

It is already a long time ago that I have been infected by this fungus. I know nothing about this fungus initially. It starts with small vesicles loosing indeed clear moisture. However, the areas under my feet are getting bigger and I decide to go to the doctor. The diagnosis is easily made: athlete's foot. The doctor advises Daktarin, cream for the infected areas and powder to straw in the socks (I actually sleep with socks). Do this several times a day and after a few weeks you are fee from this infection, the docter says. After a few weeks I went back to the doctor and I receive a second recipe. He doesn´t understand why this doesn´t help. The subsequent course provides nothing. Then I ask him whether it isn´t better to open the vesicles, for example, with a needle and then disinfect the area with iodine. Try it, is his conclusion, he really doesn´t know anymore. This action provides unfortunately not the desired result. In between I have tried homeopathic remedies as well, but also without any success.
Eventually, after some investigation, I find out that these fungi thrive very poor in an acid environment. What I have done then was the success formula for my problem and perhaps for you, if you have this fungus.

I have treated the infected areas, which has a size of about 6 to 7 cm in diameter, with vinegar. I have washed my infected feet in warm vinegar (1/1 diluted with hot water) and after a few minutes I have scratched open the vesicles with my nails until the acid runs into the wounds (this bites, as you might imagine !). Then I have dried the feet (not washed), washed my hands and put on my socks. I have repeated this procedure a couple of times a day. Surprisingly, I was lost from athlete's foot within two weeks.

Conclusion

According to my experience you will not need a drug for athlete's foot. Available drugs will undoubtedly have their effect, let there be no doubt about that. In my case miconazole did not worked. A (cheap) treatment with vinegar and hot water seems to be working like a miracle to me. Try it once and I like to hear how it ends.
By the way, preventively I use slippers in common showers (think of hotels, campgrounds, etc.).