ATHLETE'S FOOT

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Main Symptoms

• Red, scaly, cracked rash between the toes.
• The rash itches and burns.
• With itching, the rash becomes raw and weepy.
• Often involves the insteps of the feet.
• Unpleasant foot odor.
• Mainly in adolescents.

Cause

• A fungus infection that grows best on warm, damp skin.

See More Appropriate Topic (instead of this one) If

• It doesn't look like athlete's foot, see RASHES, LOCALIZED AND CAUSE UNKNOWN.

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Pediatric SelfCareNavigator. Copyright © 2000-2004 Barton Schmitt, M.D. FAAP

Reviewed 8/2004

Revised 7/2004

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