Symptoms

The typical symptoms of athlete’s foot are usually limited to the skin and its skin appendages. In the beginning, the skin usually swells up, which then looks as if you have been in the water too long. In addition there is usually a whitish coloration of the area.

This is usually followed by various symptoms like: The most common symptom is the persistent itching. In addition, the skin may crack and develop an odor. There are three different types of athlete’s foot, depending on the main symptom: Complications caused by athlete’s footIn the course of the disease, athlete’s foot may spread to toenails.

In addition, as mentioned above, bacteria or viruses can penetrate into deeper skin tissue.In addition, manual scratching of the feet can cause the fungus to spread to other parts of the body. Scratching when itching on the feet causes skin scales and the fungal pathogen to collect under the fingernails. Thus, touching other parts of the body can cause the fungus to spread.

Another way of fungal spread is through carpets or towels. The drying of the skin is sufficient to spread the germ to other parts of the body.

Burning
Itching
Skin flaking
Redness of the skin
Bubble formation
Moistening of the skin
The first type is the fungus in the spaces between the toes, especially in the spaces between the fourth and fifth toe.
Initially, the skin in these areas softens somewhat before other typical symptoms such as redness, itching, scaling and blisters appear on the sides of the toes. In addition, there are then usually softened, white, thick layers of skin and painful skin cracks. The athlete’s foot can remain undetected for a very long time and spread to other areas of the foot.
The second type of athlete’s foot is a type that spreads slowly on the back of the foot and on the edge of the foot and also occurs on the sole of the foot.
The spread on the back of the foot and the edge of the foot has a moccasin-shoe form, therefore this type is called moccasin form. Characteristic for the second type are also strong skin scaling and above all hornification of the skin. Mostly this type of athlete’s foot begins with a slight, dry skin scaling, whereby the skin shows signs of inflammation.

As a result, more and more callus layers form. Painful cracks can then appear, especially on the heels. The cracks can also lead to the penetration of pathogens, especially bacterial pathogens that are also present on the skin.
The third type is a form with skin blistering.
These skin blisters are filled with liquid and can dry up. The skin can then begin to itch because of the blisters. The tissue is reddened and irritated.