# My roomie has athlete's foot.. eww.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [September 11, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887 "2002-09-11T01:02:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![Molly\_Coddle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/bcef8e/32.png) [@Molly\_Coddle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Molly_Coddle)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887/1 "2002-09-11T01:02:53Z")

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yeah… she walks around bare foot and I have taken close precautions in wearing flip-flops everywhere!

this is soo gross…she even showed me the junk between her toes and everything… i am soooo grossed out right now!

:eek:

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> some mornings, it isn’t worth chewing off the leather straps…

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**Author:** ![mrgunzel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b782af/32.png) [@mrgunzel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrgunzel)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887/2 "2002-10-14T01:17:48Z")

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she must have very itchy feet then…didn’t she change socks frequently?

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**Author:** ![EchoKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f4b2a3/32.png) [@EchoKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EchoKitty)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887/3 "2002-10-14T12:49:42Z")

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My husband had a REALLY hideous case of it about a year ago. It took him nearly six months to get rid of it, including two rounds of meds from the doctor. I nearly puked looking at his feet. But I don’t think its very contagious, because we slept barefoot together and share bathwater every day.

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**Author:** ![im2evil4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@im2evil4u](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/im2evil4u)\
**Post date:** [October 14, 2002, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-roomie-has-athletes-foot-eww/127887/4 "2002-10-14T13:39:10Z")

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Tell her to urinate on her feet when she’s in the shower - or you could help her out 😃

My father spent some time in the US Navy and this apparently was the tried and true cure for athletes foot amongst his shipmates -

I’ve never tried it - but he swears by it.