Athlete's foot
Wash your feet every day and dry them carefully between the toes. Don't use the same towel for other parts of your body or share it with other members of your household.
Change your socks and shoes every day, especially if you have sweaty feet. Wear socks made from natural fibres, to allow your feet to breathe, and wear sandals as much as possible.
Apply a proprietary anti-fungal powder or cream between your toes and on red-dish, scaly areas of your feet twice a day for a month. Sprinkle anti-fungal powder in socks and shoes daily.
To prevent a recurrence, wear rubber or wooden sandals in public showers and changing-rooms; keep your feet dry and clean; dust the inside of your shoes with anti-fungal powder and change your socks twice a day.
Blisters
If the blister is caused by wearing a particular pair of shoes, avoid wearing them until the skin has healed. Break in new shoes gradually with short periods of wear.
Leave blisters alone to break spontaneously. If they do break, expose them to the air as much as possible to dry out, except if there is danger of dirt getting onto them, when they should be covered with a plaster or bandage.
Bunions
Stop wearing badly fitting shoes and wear only loose-fitting ones.
Bathe your feet daily for 20 minutes in hot water with a tablespoon of Epsom salts dissolved in it. Or raise your feet and apply an ice pack, 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off, or run cold water over your feet for 2 minutes at a time, until the swelling and pain dissipate.
Protect your bunions with felt pads, available from a chemist.
Calluses and corns
Use a pumice stone to smooth off calluses immediately after bathing. Calluses are caused by badly fitting shoes and almost always disappear when well fitted shoes are worn.
Don't cut corns away-rub them with an emery board or a pumice stone. Or bathe your feet in a hot-water solution of Epsom salts.
Cover a stubborn corn with a 20 or 40 per cent salicylic acid plaster; after 4 or 5 days soak the foot in water and check to see if the corn has dissolved enough to lift off or scrape away. Repeat the treatment if necessary.
Caution If you're a diabetic or elderly, don't attempt to treat calluses and corns yourself - seek professional help.
Ingrown toenails
Insert a piece of gauze soaked in surgical spirit under the corners of the nail, twice a day. Repeat daily until the ingrown toenail has healed. Consult a chiropodist or your doctor if it is not healing.
Cut a V-shaped nick in the centre of the nail's top edge to reduce the pressure on the sides of the nail.
To prevent ingrowing toenails, wear properly fitting shoes and cut or file toenails straight across rather than shaping them in a curve.
Sore feet
Massage sore feet by rolling a tennis or golf ball along the soles. Or knead the feet, pulling each toe for 10 seconds, and run the knuckles of a fist along the midsoles.
Soak weary feet in a basin of hot water to which you have added 2 tablespoons Epsom salts or a handful of plain salt. Or rub with ice cubes, towel-dry, and splash with cologne. Keep them raised whenever possible.
Corns!!!!