What is the most effective way to treat rotten feet?

In fact, rotten feet are often a type of athlete's foot, especially the erosive type of athlete's foot. If you want to treat it, you can soak it in 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution or apply some ointment, such as clotrimazole topical tinea solution, and change your shoes and socks frequently.

1. Home medication

(1) Erosive type: Soak in 1:5000 potassium permanganate solution or 0.1% revulol solution, then apply gentian violet or athlete's foot powder twice a day, wait until it dries, then apply athlete's foot spirit or tinea ointment twice a day.

(2) Blister type: Soak your feet in hot water and apply clotrimazole anti-tinea lotion or compound salicylic acid tincture once a day. After the skin is dry, apply foot-repellent or anti-tinea cream.

(3) Keratotic type: Compound benzoic acid cream or compound salicylic acid alcohol can be used externally, once in the morning and once in the evening. It is best to wrap the skin with plastic film after applying the medicine so that the medicine can penetrate into the thick skin and facilitate peeling of the thick skin.

(4) In recent years, foot powder has been used clinically to treat various types of athlete's foot, with significant efficacy. Soak your feet once a night for three times to be effective. For specific usage, see the instructions.

2. Chinese medicine and folk prescriptions

(1) Grind any one of alum, phellodendron, gallnut, or cuttlefish bone into powder and set aside. Sprinkle on the affected area after washing your feet. Suitable for erosive type.

(2) Sophora flavescens, white moss peel, purslane, plantain 30g each, Atractylodes lancea, Phellodendron amurense 15g each, decoct and wash 1-2 times a day. It has a good effect on blister type or infection.

(3) 30g of Impatiens balsamina, 30g of sapodilla, 15g of pepper, any one of them, put into half a pound of vinegar, soak for one day, and soak your feet for 20 minutes every night before going to bed. Continuous treatment for 7 days has a good effect on keratinization.

3. Athlete's foot is a contagious skin disease. Avoid scratching to prevent self-infection and infection. Use foot basins and foot towels separately to avoid infecting others.

4. While taking medication, the shoes and socks worn by the patient should be disinfected. They can be exposed to sunlight or washed with boiling water. It is best to use a piece of cloth dipped in 10% formalin solution to stuff it into the shoes, put them in a plastic bag and seal them for 48 hours to achieve the purpose of sterilization.