Learn to distinguish between athlete's foot and ankle in life

Usually, people often describe their ankles as beriberi, so that the mixed use and misuse of the words “beriberi” and “ankle” is common. In fact, "beriberi" and "ankle" are two different types of diseases.

Beriberi is a systemic disease caused by the lack of vitamin B1 in the human body. According to the symptoms can be divided into: limb paresthesia, allergies, dullness, tactile hypoesthesia, muscle aches, muscle strength, walking difficulties, with multiple peripheral neuritis as the main performance of the "dry"; with limbs, body and visceral edema And slurry exudation is the main performance of the "wet type." Most patients are subacute and have mild conditions. The treatment of this disease is mainly oral or injection of vitamin B1.

The athlete's foot, also known as the foot of Hong Kong, is a kind of infectious foot skin disease. It is very itchy, and even the pus is turned into pain and erosion. The disease is more stubborn and the course of the disease is longer. At present, there are many people with tinea pedis, and the prevention of tinea pedis to avoid contact with the patient's feet or items contaminated by the patient. Footwear, socks, footbaths, and the floor of bathhouses used by patients may have pathogenic fungi that should attract attention. The treatment of athlete's foot is not timely, and may also spread to other parts, such as causing hand ringworm and hyperthyroidism, and sometimes due to itch scratched, secondary bacterial infection, can cause serious complications. The treatment of athlete's foot mainly uses antifungal drugs. While treating, also pay attention to the following points:

1, insist on medication. Athlete's foot is a chronic infection that grows in the fungal fungus stratum corneum and requires long-term medication to kill it.

2, do not use drugs. Medication should be based on the specific conditions of the lesion, can not use tincture at the site of ulceration, skin thickening, cracking the ointment. Some people use corticosteroid creams to treat athlete's foot. The result is more diffuse. When the water is raged, it should go to the hospital and the doctor can perform appropriate treatment according to the specific situation. Some people crush the aspirin tablets between the rotted toes, resulting in ulcers and long-term pain.

3, the occurrence of secondary infection in the athlete's foot, local acute inflammation, can not be treated as a general tinea pedis, should first deal with secondary infection. Anti-inflammatory drugs can be applied topically, antibiotics must be applied systemically when necessary, and should be properly rested.