Patients resorting to alternative remedies to treat painful athlete s foot (file photo) risk suffering rashes, lung problems and even cancer, experts have warned.
Athlete s foot (file photo) can become untreatable even with the strongest over-the-counter creams, due to the rise of drug-resistant strains of the bug that causes the common skin infection.
The mother of four suffers from a debilitating chronic infection called aspergillosis - it s caused by the aspergillus mould (a type of fungus) that affects the lungs.