Tinea Pedis

Sign/Symptoms
Skin Blisters Skin Infection Between Third and Fourth Toe Space Skin Inflammation Skin Itching Skin Peeling Skin Scaly Or Flaky Skin Tenderness Or Pain Skin Ulcers Skin Vesicles (Small, Fluid-Filled Elevations) Skin: Psoriasis (Red, Scaly Patches) Skin: Swelling Beneath The Skin (Angioedema)

Drugs
Fluconazole Griseofulvin

Treatments
Alternative Medicine Tea Tree Oil No Recommendation Low Evidence Lifestyle Changes Avoid Tight Garments Weakly in Favour Low Evidence Keep Area Between Toes Dry (eg. After Showering) Weakly in Favour Low Evidence More Exposure of Affected Area to Air Weakly in Favour Low Evidence

Attributes
Commonality is common

Further Tests
Tinea Pedis Smear Test (Athletes Foot, Test from Skin Scrapings) Tinea in Smear (Epidermophytons, Candida, Trichophyton Mentagrophytes, Microsporums, Trichophyton Tonsurans or Trichophyton Rubrum) (Increased)

Tinea Pedis

Efficacy of Alternative and Other Treatments According to GRADE* Ranking:

Tea Tree Oil [1, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17]:

Please note, this management does NOT treat the condition itself. It is proposed only as a weak supportive symptomatic support, and even then, has insufficient evidence to back up this claim at present. WARNING: Tea Tree Oil is not recommended for children, pregnant women or mothers that are breastfeeding. Also, Tea tree oil should never be taken internally. Should only be used over skin, inhaled with a vaporizer, or mixed with water as a mouthwash.)

Recommendation: No recommendation (Research on the effectiveness of tea tree oil in treating tinea pedis has yielded unreliable results.)

Grade of Evidence: low quality of evidence

* www.gradeworkinggroup.org

Summary References

Treatments:

1. Ades T, Alteri R, Gansler T, Yeargin P, "Complete Guide to Complimentary & Alternative Cancer Therapies", American Cancer Society, Atlanta USA, 2009

2. http://www.cancer.org/Treatment/TreatmentsandSideEffects/ComplementaryandAlternativeMedicine/HerbsVitaminsandMinerals/tea-tree-oil

3. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginfo/natural/patient-teatreeoil.html

4. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18816275

5. http://bastyrcenter.org/content/view/972/&page=

6. http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/62/4/769?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=staphaseptic&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT

7. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2145499

8. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9055360

9. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12451368

10. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9848442

11. Bishop, C.D. (1995). "Anti-viral Activity of the Essential Oil of Melaleuca alternifolia". Journal of Essential Oil Research: 641–644

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