PEELING FEET MOST COMMONLY CAUSED FUNGAL INFECTIONS

According to Rebecca Pruthi, DPM, the most common reason patients have peeling feet is a fungal infection (like athlete's foot)—although they might not always realize it. "A lot of times it just presents itself as peeling skin and patients don't have the itchiness, so they don't know it's a fungal infection," Dr. Pruthi says. So if your skin starts mysteriously peeling all of a sudden, get it checked out sooner rather than later. Once you have a fungal infection on your skin, it can easily infect your toenail. Pruthi warns can be very difficult to get rid of.

 

Dr. Rebecca Pruthi

 

"What I find that happens is that the skin infects the nails, the nails re-infect the skin, back and forth, back and forth. So whatever presents itself first, you want to knock it away," says Dr. Pruthi.

 

Source: Laura Stampler and Elizabeth Bacharach, Women's Health Magazine[10/31/19] 

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM News.