Abstract
An experiment on the treatment of tinea pedis, common athlete's foot, infections was done using a pulsed CO2 laser having an output energy of 3 joule/pulse and pulse duration of 0.5 psec. Based on the results by the culture experiment, the ratio of the number of the samples having a cure rate of above 70% to all the samples is about 0.55 for thin skin and 0.35 for thick skin. The itchiness on the blistered infected parts virtually disappers within a few hours after the laser irradiation and the vesicles almost completely disapper within about 2 days.
