Health question

[UDT89]

Im having an argument with my brother......

I remember learning in health classes in college, that the fungus for athletes foot is the same for jock itch......and that the OTC medicenes for athletes foot would cure jock itch as well.


Can anyone verify my claims?

 

[blackdogdeek]

i have heard this as well but i can't confirm it with documentation yet.

 

[DrNoobie]

Correct. They're both of the Tinea fungus family. Tinea pedis is Athlete's foot, and Tinea Cruris is jock itch. OTC medicines for one type will work on both.

 

[Amused]

If you kept your bare feet off the floor, and your foot out of your crotch (or vice-versa), you wouldn't be having these problems.

 

[prvteye2003]

Originally posted by: Amused
If you kept your bare feet off the floor, and your foot out of your crotch (or vice-versa), you wouldn't be having these problems.

lmao

 

[blackdogdeek]

Originally posted by: prvteye2003

Originally posted by: Amused
If you kept your bare feet off the floor, and your foot out of your crotch (or vice-versa), you wouldn't be having these problems.

lmao

unfortunately, footwear is not allowed on dojo floors. that's where i contracted the virus the second time.

the first time, i contracted it while walking barefoot in the gym locker room.

 

[StageLeft]

They both taste the same, so I presume that they're the same fungus.

 

[bleeb]

that's discusting.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: Skoorb
They both taste the same, so I presume that they're the same fungus.

Um, yuck?