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Quick Medical Diagnosis & Treatment
Tinea Manuum & Pedis
Sections: Key Features, Essentials of Diagnosis, General Considerations, Clinical Findings, Symptoms and Signs, Differential Diagnosis, Diagnosis, Laboratory Tests, Treatment, Medications, Local measures, Systemic measures, Therapeutic Procedures, Outcome, Prognosis, Prevention, When to Refer, References,
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Topics Discussed: tinea manus; tinea pedis.
Excerpt: | |  See Table 6–2
Macerated stage—treat with aluminum subacetate solution soaks for 20 min twice daily Broad-spectrum antifungal creams and solutions (containing imidazoles or ciclopirox instead of tolnaftate and haloprogin) will help combat diphtheroids and other gram-positive organisms present at this stage and alone may be adequate therapy If topical imidazoles fail, try 1 week of once-daily allylamine treatment (terbinafine or butenafine) Dry and scaly stage—use any of the agents listed in Table 6-2 The addition of urea 10–20% lotion or cream may increase the efficacy of topical treatments in thick ("moccasin") tinea of the soles |
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