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Gomez
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Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 02:45 pm GMT:
Ah, that's clearer, thank you. In any case, when I referred to a 10% solution, I was referring to 10% of household bleach, in water, not the absolute concentration of sodium hypochlorite or whatever.
A 9:1 - 10:1 ratio of water to bleach is what the CDC and many other safer sex groups recommend for sanitizing toys. It will kill just about anything, but is dilute enough that if you get it on skin, it won't burn you. I have used it several times to kill a stubborn case of Athlete's Foot obtained from the practice mat at the dojo. It worked where other products did not. ................................................
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Stretch6
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Posted on Wednesday, November 19, 2003 - 01:01 am GMT:
When you dilute it to 10% of the original concentration, the new solution becomes 0.525%, and so on and so forth.
It's all in the definition and conventions.
OK?
Gomez
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Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 06:44 pm GMT:
I don't understand your reply. How does 10% = 0.5% ?
A strong 10% solution is what is recommended by CDC for sanitizing toys, it is also recommended by doctors for killing fungus. Foot fungus is _hard_ to kill, tap water is not going to do it. This isn't for drinking, it's for killing resistant microbes. ................................................
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Stretch6
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Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2003 - 11:27 am GMT:
One teaspoon per gallon is 0.005 per cent. the chloringation of drinkling water (yes, we still do that in the USA) is 0.0001 per cent, just enough to inhibit bacterial/mold growth in a dynamic system (always flowing) system
Gomez
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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 10:27 pm GMT:
While cotton soaks may be absorbent, if perspiration is prevented by the rubber from escaping, they will soon become saturated.
Having damp feet frequently _could_ encourage fungus growth if you have been exposed to it. Thoroughly washing the inside of your latex, and occasionally soaking it in a very weak bleach solution (10% or less - that would be 9 or 10 parts water : 1 part bleach) will kill any fungal growth that might attempt to grow on or in your latex. The main thing is to thoroughly wash and dry your feet after taking off the latex.
Rubber socks do seem (in my experience) to wear out easily. There are probably two things at work here - friction, and humidity. Latex is not quite water-proof, it is actually slighly hygroscopic (meaning it absorbs water) and when it has absorbed water, it is weaker than when it is dry.
Have you tried the anti-perspirant "crystals" or "stones" which are essentially just a big lump of aluminum chlorhydrate (same active ingredient as underarm anti-perspirants) that you rub on any area you don't want to sweat? Just a thought.
I have somewhat sweaty feet, and I used to have regular problems with fungus (aka "athlete's foot") when I went to the aikido dojo regularly - it was in the carpet. The only solution was to constantly use anti-fungal foot powder every day, and carefully wash my feet after every visit to the dojo - a minor annoyance.
I don't know how easy it would be to mold individually-toed rubber sox, but I would assume from my own experiences with rubber that they would make your sweat problem worse, not better.
But if you decide to go ahead, it may be that plaster casts of your feet could be carefully modified to separate the toes so you could dip-cast something from liquid latex. I agree that trying to glue them up out of sheet would be a nightmare. ................................................
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Tron
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Posted on Monday, November 17, 2003 - 06:12 pm GMT:
I really hate having my sweatty toes squeezed together, no
matter what material my socks are. I plan to purchase those
cotton socks soon to give it a try. I have a neurologic injury that makes my feet very cold, but they also sweat a lot and that does not exactly help... When my socks get wet
they don't help much no matter how many layers I have.
Perhaps socks of rubber could prevent the warming socks from
getting wet. I have never tried rubber socks so I need to know what your experiences are. Do they get slippery or do the wear out easily? I suppose wearing latex socks frequently can increase the risk for fungis, fung...?
eh... "mushrooms" between the toes...
I don't know if separated toes would make any difference to the last possible problem.
I have a cast of plaster made from my feet but with toes missing. Would these socks be a verry difficult DIY project?
-Dipping a plaster model in liquid latex?
I suppose glueing something like this will be nearly impossible.
A friend of mine told me that by using rubber underwear
every day for years, he have stopped to sweat in the rubbered area. Would be wonderful if it's possible to teach
the feet to stop this stupid sweating.
/Tron
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