Athlete's Foot

Susanna Cellucci

Susanna CellucciFounder

Published June 28, 2025 • Updated October 7, 2026

Athlete’s foot is a fungal skin infection usually found between the toes or on the soles and sides of the feet. It is caused by dermatophyte fungi which feed on keratin in the top layer of skin and thrive in warm, damp environments.

 

The infection is contagious, it get thought in contact with infected skin or indirectly via contaminated surfaces like locker room floors, showers, public pools, towels, and shoes. To avoid to get it and spread it, wear  sustainable flipflop in the gyms and lock rooms and in hotel rooms, and in any other public spaces shared with others.

 

Athlete’s foot synthonms: 

  • Itching and burning: Intense itching, stinging, or burning sensations, particularly between the fourth and fifth toes or immediately after taking off shoes and socks.

  • Flaking and peeling: Red, scaly, cracked, or peeling skin.

  • Blisters or ulcers: Fluid-filled blisters or painful skin fissures that can crack and bleed.

  • Dry, chronic scaling: Moccasin-type infections cause dry, powdery, thickened skin spanning the heel and bottom of the foot.

 

Athlete’s foot types:

  • Interdigital: Between the smallest toes. Peeling, cracking, white macerated skin, intense itching
  • Moccasin: Sole, heel, edges of foot. Dry, scaling, thickened skin mimicking eczema
  • Vesicular: Instep or bottom of foot. Fluid-filled blisters, acute redness, sudden onset

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