Surfers foot

[Johno]

I think i have a big problem! I dont know if any of ya rember but i have posted on this forum about getting skin sheeding infected feet from surfing!

For the last 2 years after surfing my feet have started burning got really really itchy then a couple of days later shed the skin / cracked and nearly stopped me walking, it has caused unbeliveable amount of pain.

Any way after thinking i have caught some mad fungle infection and buying every aflets foot remerdy I have finaly been refered to the specialist.

Turns out No funges or infection, she thinks am allergict to some thing! all allergy test have come back negative and she is puzzled, So went surfing at the weekend and for the first time didnt wear my booties all weekend. and gusse what No itchy skin sheeding feet!!!!

I can only gess but i think my feet are allergic to my booties!!!

any one ever head off this before etc and any one got some sugestions when it comes to winter how am i guna keep my feet warm if i cant wear boots,

i'll post a photo of my shedding feet if any one wants to see them

Please please help me, giving up surfing is not an option

[O_Danny_Boy]

how about something worn between your feet and your bootie, maybe a sock?

[surferdude_scarborough]

nice thick layer of some sort of grease/fat type stuff round your feet and no booties. like channel swimmers?

[justloafing]

nice thick layer of some sort of grease/fat type stuff round your feet and no booties. like channel swimmers?

That wont make the board to slippery

[Johno]

tryed the sock thing ages ago and it didnt work, think i need a gud barrier between me skin and booties

If is used thick fat woudnt all the sand stik to my feet!!!

[garbarrage]

friend had the same problem on his leg.... he gave up surfing for the winter and didn't hace this problem at the time... but when he started back again the skin on his leg started peeling... horrible looking.
never found out what it was so really interested also!

[surferdude_scarborough]

serious suggestion this time: maybe the latex socks they give kids to stop them passing on verrucas in the swimming pool might work? not sure if they make them big enough. failing that bung a plastic sandwich bag roung your foot beofre you put your boots on. would make them go on easier too

[billie_morini]

clean those booties thoroghly with warm water and a wetsuit cleaner that contains nonoxynol-9 like this one:

http://www.scuba.com/scuba-gear-166/030 ... ioner.html

[drowningbitbybit]

I can only gess but i think my feet are allergic to my booties!!!

any one ever head off this before etc and any one got some sugestions when it comes to winter how am i guna keep my feet warm if i cant wear boots,

i'll post a photo of my shedding feet if any one wants to see them

I think I can live without the photos

But, yes, sounds like you have contact dermititis. Its fairly common - lots of people where I work develop sensitivity to latex (sadly, because I work in a lab/hospital and we wear surgival gloves. Not because I have an interesting fetish).

Contact dermititis can be a bugger to treat if you cant avoid the stuff that causes it. You can get creams and stuff for it, but they wont be any good if you're sticking your feet in neoprene boots (and it'll wash off...)

As for what else to do to stop frostbite...? Er... you got me stumped. I had a quick look for an alternative to neoprene but I couldnt find any boots suitable for surfing.

So the obvious answer is to move somewhere warmer

[SDCali]

serious suggestion this time: maybe the latex socks they give kids to stop them passing on verrucas in the swimming pool might work? not sure if they make them big enough. failing that bung a plastic sandwich bag roung your foot beofre you put your boots on. would make them go on easier too

that may just make it worse, as his allergy may be to latex, a more and more common allergy these days.
If wearing a wetsuit isn't causing a reaction, I would contact the manufacturer of the booties to find out what they are made of, and thus figure out, via process of elimination, what the allergy is, and try to find some booties that don't have that particular ingredient in them.

[Johno]

Cheers all for your advise, its weared coz i dont get a reaction any were else on my body from wearing a wety,

I clean dissinfect my booties and soak in water so think i could rule the detergent thing out,

what i did find is that my feet got worse when i got some new Xcel booties so as some one said maybe there some chemicall or sumet what my feet dont like.

So as DBBB said think av got to move to a warmer country

[parrysurf]

knew a young lady once who was allergic to latex....so we used those sheep intestine condoms.....maybe you can shuv your foot in a sheep stomach or something.

or give up the booties

[Johno]

I could stick me feet up a sheeps ass theres lots of them in walse!!!

Av giv up the booties for summer but when the winter cums am screwed

[kekerengu71]

Ok - now we are getting to the bottom of this - I hadn't used my Rip Curl gloves for a year (since last winter) then I wore them last session. Uh oh - my hands went red, then blistered and then peeled. I have been trying to find out what did this for quite some time and have found out a lot about allergies along the way. I don't know what the element is in the rubber which is doing it, but it sucks and gets right in the way of my surf addiction. Does anyone know what's causing this? I found one of the best treatments for it is a EgoPsoryl Non Staining Tar Gel - but i want to eliminate the rubber cause. Has anyone had similar allergies, and are there any safe products?? surely its just this rubber compound, there must be other products that don't do this...??

[parrysurf]

These guys have a merino wool lining and way less petroleum in the neoprene. If they have a boot, it may be your answer!
http://www.patagoniawetsuits.com/

[RJD]

Move to somewhere tropical you dont need boots...

[Hang11]

Sounds like you might have an STD on your foot. Similar thing happened to me once, just not on my foot. Caught it off a welsh lady. Easily cleared up with the right drugs.

[RJD]

Sounds like you might have an STD on your foot. Similar thing happened to me once, just not on my foot. Caught it off a welsh lady. Easily cleared up with the right drugs.

He still has a pic to remember her by too...

[Broosta]

Do you piss in your wetty? All that sloshing about in your booties until the end of the sesh. Uric acid maybe the problem.

[IB_Surfer]

If it's not an allegic reaction then you have severe athlete's foot. Buy some lotrimin or other foot ointment, maybe look for a double pack on sale, and start rubbing it in daily, it will go away within a week or so. If it doesn't go see a doctor for something stronger.

Lastly, an old mexican recipe: 1/8th cup formaldahide, salt and a couple of gallons of warm water, then soack your feet once a day for a week, supposed to kill everything