Poll: Has your toddler ever gotten Athlete's Foot?

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Our son Anthony is 19 months old, and has gotten Athlete's Foot twice now. We use anti-fungal cream to treat it per our pediatrician, (who said it's unusal for a toddler's feet to sweat/develop Athlete's Foot, but not harmful, just annoying). So my baby has sweaty feet - Great! HA! Poor little guy!

posted by on 03/28/2008 04:39 PM

kids haven't had that, but they do have warts (even though I don't let them play with turtles and frogs!! ) Poor Amelia has had one on her heel since before she could walk. she doesn't complain, and it doesn't affect her walking, so i hate to traumatize her by having it frozen off. i'm scared to put that salicylic acid on such tender little foot.

posted by mmm on 03/28/2008 08:37 PM

My daughter has had this and also planter's warts! She is 7 and has always had sweaty feet and hands. I try to have her change her socks more often and use powder. This seems to help. Last summer she got her 1st planters wart. I thought it was just a caulous and ignored it. Well, it turned into about 6 warts on her feet (Poor thing)!! It took about 3 months to disolve them with the medicine (I was to scared to use the acid also)

posted by elaine on 03/31/2008 12:28 PM

our daughter had it from the time she was six months until she was about 3 years, we have been to the doctor several times for cream and oral meds. she is just very prone but usually it takes about 4-6 weeks of cream to completely cure it.

posted by Suzie on 11/05/2008 09:31 PM

My daughter got it from wearing the clog type shoes without socks and getting them wet in the summer. The cream helped and we made her wear soaks. Took a few weeks to heal

posted by Heather on 05/30/2009 12:08 PM

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