I suffer from athletes foot from time to time. According to an article I read, athletes foot is a fungal infection of the skin that causes scaling, flaking and itching of the general area. It is caused by the fungi in the genus Trichophyton and is typically transmitted in moist area where people walk barefoot such as showers or swimming pools. I take my two kids swimming every Sunday morning so this could be one of the places that I catch it from. The itch is absolutely horrible. It's that irritating itch that you try to ignore but then you just have to scratch it and I would always scratch ...
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