Articles, tagged with "public showers", page 4
13th June 2008
Athlete's foot is a skin infection in the foot caused by a fungus. The fungus that causes Athlete foot is called Trichophyton. When the feet, or other areas of the body, stay moist, warm and irritated, this fungus can thrive and infect the upper layer of ...
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Author:
Sander Bel
26th January 2008
Description
Also known as tinea pedis, athlete's foot is a common fungus infection. Intense itching is the hallmark of athlete's foot. In fact, the condition is so irritating that many sufferers vigorously scratch at the area just for a few moments of ...
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Author:
Alien
08th October 2007
Among all human papilloma virus infections, planters warts are the least dangerous one, though they can be very annoying, they will usually disappear within a week or two. Planters warts expression comes from the medical description of the lower part of y...
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Author:
Melanie
18th September 2007
Jock itch (tinea cruris) is a pretty common fungal infection of the groin and upper thighs. Jock itch is also sometimes called crack fungus, crotch itch, bag rot or crotch rot, dhobi itch (after Indian washermen). It is a common fungal infection that affe...
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Author:
Juliet Cohen
20th July 2007
As we get older, many of us face the dilemma of how to stop nail fungus infections (onychomycosis). The risk of suffering from onychomycosis increases with age and the infection seems to be growing more common overall - as many as 13% of North Americans h...
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Author:
R. Drysdale
30th January 2007
The cause of nail fungus infection is nearly always one of a small group of fungi and yeasts that are capable of drawing nutrition from keratin, a protein found in nails, or of invading the soft tissue around the nail. The organisms that can do this fall ...
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Author:
R. Drysdale
27th December 2006
Wart removal is a necessity to sufferers whose daily activities have been inconvenienced or when the warts badly affect their physical appearances. It can be rather embarrassing for the victims to face their friends or just about anyone especially when mu...
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Author:
Davion Wong
25th September 2006
You may have seen them in those ads with a lot of nasty pictures. Nail fungus infections have been around since ages, and they plan to stay if you don't take proper action to avoid them.
Fungi are everywhere, they are neither animals nor plants, and c...
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Author:
Paolo Basauri
23rd September 2006
Avoiding nail fungus should be an automatic program in your mind. Something that in the end you don't think about it, you just do it. Many of us have had no experience with nail fungus while we were growing up whatsoever, and those ugly ads with nasty f...
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Author:
Paolo Basauri
01st September 2006
The maritime province of the Algarve, often called the Garden of Portugal, is the south westernmost part of Europe. Its coastline stretches 160km (99 miles) from Henry the Navigator's Cape St. Vincent to the border town of Vila Real de Santo António, fron...
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Author:
Alison White
16th May 2006
FUNGAL PROBLEMS DEFINED
The fungal problems seen most often are athlete's foot and fungal nails. A fungus is a common mold that thrives in dark, warm, moist areas. On the feet, it can grow on and between toes, as well as on soles and toenails. Fungal p...
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Author:
Dr. Jeffrey Hurless