I literally just got symptoms of athletes foot today. I wore the flip flops for about 3 hours. Should I throw them out or should I be okay?
2007-07-12 09:27:15 · 7 answers · asked by :-) 3 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Skin Conditions
Just wash them in the washer in hot water. They will be fine. It is a fungal infection that cannot live on dry flip flops. It likes the toes and feet because it is warm and moist.
2007-07-12 09:31:29 · answer #1 · answered by Snuffy Smith 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Are you sure it's athlete's foot? I mean, have you already used an anti-fungal and it's already helped?
In order to be sure what's wrong, you have to separate your feet from the flip-flops and also from athlete's foot fungus. If you were about to get it, the flip-flops wouldn't matter. I suppose you're thinking that the flip-flops gave it to you.
If that's the case, treat the feet and disinfect the shoes. You can use a bleach solution if they're bleachable, or you can use a disinfectant cleaner (I mean, if they're like, foam soles. If they're washable.)
But if you got it...you need to treat all the surfaces you can--disinfect the bathroom floor, the shower floor, whatever your feet touched to get the fungus.
But if it's not really athlete's foot and it's merely an unsuitable pair of shoes that make your feet all hot and itchy, then, yeah, toss the shoes. Tough-actin' Tinactin won't cure a bad pair of shoes.
2007-07-12 16:33:59 · answer #2 · answered by SlowClap 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Just spray them with an antibacterial like lysol. Let them sit in the sun. If your feet are experiencing a problem, use desitin or some other athletes foot cream. You might have just observed the symptoms today, but it usually is something that develops over at least a little bit of time. I'd clean out the shower and spray or mop the bathroom floors as well.
2007-07-12 16:32:29 · answer #3 · answered by Blip B 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
rub them down with bleach. that will kill the fungus.
Or continue to wear those until the fungus is gone and then replace them but remember to put the stuff on the flip flops aswell as your feet.
2007-07-12 16:31:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Go to a pharmacy and ask for the bottle of the pink surgeons soap (what they use in hospitals). Scrub your feet and sandles with it. Works in a snap! and imediatly takes away the itch and irritation from you feet.
2007-07-12 16:36:12 · answer #5 · answered by waswap 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Keep them outside tonight and spray them with lysol they should be alright -
2007-07-12 16:31:54 · answer #6 · answered by kelly e 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
you could.. or you could disinfect them or keep them until you figure out if its really athlete's foot.
2007-07-12 16:30:43 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋