Around this time of year with increased heat & humidity I am beset with a nasty case of what I call Body Fungus. My experience in the hospital 5 years ago taught me that odd red rash I would get at times was caused by a fungus. I don't know the genus but I do know my past attempts at ridding myself of it with soap, water, and hefty burning splashes of isopropyl alcohol, while they worked, required more time. I realized it was a fungus only when I was given antifungal powder while at Cleveland Clinic Hillcrest. I managed to connect the dots.
I have struggled to find that same Miconazole powder, but instead have to settle for Clotrimazole; it could be the same thing. I'm used to Disney Drug Mart's $1 per 1 ounce tube store brand and for the most part, it works. Mom would say any product with Lotrimin on the box regardless of intended marketed use would work on what Lotrimin does. So imagine me with the displeasure of not finding $1 tubes of anything from Wal-Mart and having to settle for a $4 half-ounce tube of Athletes' Foot Fungus cream instead of jock itch sprays which ran over that tube's cost. I was desperate and begged for relief.
4 days later with usages of that expensive product and it has nearly cleared up. Imagine me surprised. I have washed everything I need to stick in where it need stuck so no fungus gets a 2nd chance to do that again. I think old but apparently unlaundered and long unworn underwear harbored my enemy. That will get a dosage of bleach or at least Oxygen Cleaner in addition to detergent. My other hygiene habits couldn't stop this from happening either. Harumph!
