# Athlete's Foot **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 13, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769 "2002-06-13T02:16:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![64Firebird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/8e7dd6/32.png) [@64Firebird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/64Firebird)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/1 "2002-06-13T02:16:09Z")
Can you really cure athlete’s foot by going wee wee on your feet? ---
**Author:** ![kniz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c37758/32.png) [@kniz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kniz)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/2 "2002-06-13T02:17:49Z")
[sup]Pass[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/3 "2002-06-13T03:44:26Z")
Yes. ---
**Author:** ![64Firebird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/8e7dd6/32.png) [@64Firebird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/64Firebird)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/4 "2002-06-13T04:02:29Z")
How do you know? ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/5 "2002-06-13T15:40:09Z")
Are you serious? Because my kids both have athlete’s foot. I can’t get them to spray with Tinactin or soak in the herbal blends I make, but peeing…fast and painless. Maybe they would go for it… ~karol ---
**Author:** ![64Firebird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/8e7dd6/32.png) [@64Firebird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/64Firebird)\ **Post date:** [June 13, 2002, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/6 "2002-06-13T15:45:58Z")
I really want to know about this. Does it work? If it works, why does it work? ---
**Author:** ![64Firebird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/8e7dd6/32.png) [@64Firebird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/64Firebird)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/7 "2002-06-14T02:18:39Z")
You guys are no help at all. ---
**Author:** ![Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Smashed\_Ice\_Cream](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smashed_Ice_Cream)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/8 "2002-06-14T06:50:17Z")
[website that suggests that it works.](http://www.kornax.com/HealthNewsletter6_3.htm) ---
**Author:** ![jb\_farley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9d8465/32.png) [@jb\_farley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jb_farley)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 7:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/9 "2002-06-14T07:16:51Z")
since there’s no good peer-reviewed info out there, how about **64Firebird** and **bodypoet** step up to bat for the SDMB? how’d you all (64 and body) feel about that? pee on left feet. tough-actin-tinactin on the right. and then let us know what happens? I mean, 64, maybe you won’t be game, but **bodypoet** , the kids should be all for it. they’re boys, right? boys love to pee, anywhere and everywhere. jb p.s. (pun not intended)- am i wrong? at least, i’m a boy, and a new place to pee means a new place to ROCK! ---
**Author:** ![64Firebird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/8e7dd6/32.png) [@64Firebird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/64Firebird)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/10 "2002-06-14T12:23:13Z")
I would, but I don’t have athlete’s foot. ---
**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/11 "2002-06-14T13:17:48Z")
My husband had a NASTY case of it. He ended up taking some mega-pills (had to do two rounds of therapy), but it FINALLY went away (and we’re talking MONTHS). Sure would have been easier if he could pee on his feet. He’s got a bladder the size of a peanut anyway. ---
**Author:** ![erislover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/71e660/32.png) [@erislover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/erislover)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/12 "2002-06-14T13:24:49Z")
Not for the easily disgusted: [TheSpark.com](http://TheSpark.com)’s [Stinky Feet Project](http://www.thespark.com/science/stinkyfeet/)! ---
**Author:** ![Batsinma\_Belfry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@Batsinma\_Belfry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Batsinma_Belfry)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/13 "2002-06-14T14:03:28Z")
Tea tree oil works, and smells slightly better than pee. ---
**Author:** ![papergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aca169/32.png) [@papergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/papergirl)\ **Post date:** [June 14, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/athletes-foot/113769/14 "2002-06-14T15:31:46Z")
Okaaaaay. I will mention it to my boys. They are 11 and godmomi’mnearly16 though, so peeing everywhere doesn’t quite have the novelty it did when they were, say, four and standing at the top of the corkscrew slide at the public park. I have my doubts, though. (Maybe if I took them to the park, it would seem more like old times? 😃 ) ~k