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Are you ready...to treat summer feet?

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Padding around on the hot sand, paddling in an azure pool and ditching your sensible shoes for a pair of flip-flops is the stuff of summer holiday dreams, but can leave behind some foot-related nightmares.

Be it verrucas, warts, blisters, athlete's foot or fungal nail infections, this month's "Are you ready...?" helps your pharmacy team gear up for the hobbling post-holiday footfall.

Featured article

This month, we've prepared an article giving you up-to-date information on some of the key issues for OTC foot care so start here to dive into your preparations feet first

Other resources

Diabetes footcare (NICE guidance)

UK information and support sources (Patient UK)

NHS Choices:

Athlete's foot

Corns and calluses

Fungal nail infection

Hand, foot and mouth disease

Warts and verrucas

PJ Online archives

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Questions from practice: Hand, foot and mouth disease

Questions from practice — heel fissures

Advising on insect bites and stings

Fungal infections — pharmacological therapy

Superseding antifungal creams and pessaries — the story of fluconazole

News from the PJ Online library

Lamisil may become a GSL medicine

Don’t always treat fungal infections, says DTB

New OTC product Curanail is brand of the year

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Commercial websites

  • Wartner's website (Chefaro UK) gives information about the types and causes of verrucas and warts, and the range of treatments available including, but not limited to, treatment with products from the Wartner range
  • An "about feet" section on the Scholl website offers information about a variety of foot conditions, and recommends treatments for each
  • Information about fungal nail infections can be found on Galderma's Curanail website
  • Comprehensive information about foot care can be found on the Lamisil (Novartis) website, including foot skin facts, advice on foot well-being and information on detecting and treating fungal nail infections and athlete's foot
  • Bayer Healthcare's Canesten website also includes a section on the prevention, symptoms and treatment of athlete's foot

 

And for something a little different…

In celebration of all things pedate, a "play footsie" section on Novartis's Lamisil site allows you to create animated foot-based e-cards to send to your friends and family

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