Protect Your Feet From These Infectious Fungus

If you have noticed a strange-looking ugly bump and tend to be painful on the bottom of your feet it might be plantar warts. Plantar warts can be caused by the papillomavirus or HPV which enters through tiny cuts or weak spots on the bottom of your feet.

Swimming pools and humid locker rooms floors are the ideal breeding grounds for this HPV virus. This disease is easy to spot because of its distinctive look, usually, plantar warts have a circular flat spot on the skin that may appear yellowed with a crust and have a black spot in the middle.

In most cases, you won’t need medical treatment to treat these warts because these warts will resolve naturally on their own. But if plantar warts interrupt your day-to-day activities, you may be able to get rid of this by using over-the-counter medications such as salicylic acid cream or liquid nitrogen.

Next, you will see how being barefoot in public pools can make your feet more likely to catch this fungus