Container for 'Mycota' powder made by Rexam Containers Limited and Betts Plastics for Seton Healthcare Group plc

‘Mycota’ powder is one of many branded products available to treat athlete’s food, a common fungal infection. Often athlete’s foot affects the soles of the feet and between the toes, although it can also be found elsewhere on the foot. The fungus that causes it was first identified in 1908. There was a spike in cases identified during the First World War in the often wet and waterlogged conditions of the Western Front. It was not until the late 1920s that the infection was first called athlete’s foot by manufactures of treatments for the condition. They named it this because the infection had become associated with places like swimming pools and gymnasiums which have communal changing rooms. However, despite the name, it can still affect everyone.