Home Treatment and Professional Treatment for Foot Problems
If you are experiencing foot problems, ask yourself a few questions to decide whether home treatment is an option, or if you should seek medical help right away.
Are you diabetic? If so, you’re best getting help from your doctor, nurse, or diabetes educator rather than taking a “wait and see” approach. Foot problems that non-diabetics can deal with themselves can often be much more difficult to treat in diabetics. It’s best not to take chances.
Do you have arthritic feet? If so, you may be better off getting medical help for any structural problem of the foot, like bunions or hammer toes. You may, however, be able to treat minor skin problems like foot fungus or athlete’s foot at home.
Have you had an infected toenail for several weeks or months? If so, perhaps you should get professional medical help. Prescription treatments for toenail fungus take time, but waiting for toenail fungus to fix itself resolves nothing and may make it harder to treat.
Minor problems such as run-of-the-mill athlete’s foot can often be treated at home with over-the-counter medications with active ingredients like terbinafine, miconazole, clotrimazole, and tolnaftate.
With most foot problems, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. If you use public showers at your dorm, or at your gym, always take your own flip flops or shower shoes and wear them any time you don’t have your regular shoes on in the locker room.
And diabetics should make inspection of their feet for problems part of their daily routine, to prevent small problems from becoming major problems.
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