Many alternative medicine diagnoses, such as candida overgrowth and multiple chemical sensitivities, are considered trashcan diagnoses by medical personnel.
Antifungal medication, a medication used to treat fungal infections such as athlete's foot, ringworm, candidiasis, etc.
Athlete's foot can usually be diagnosed by visual inspection of the skin, but if the diagnosis is uncertain, direct microscopy of a potassium hydroxide preparation of a skin scraping (known as a KOH test) can confirm the diagnosis of Athlete's foot and help rule out other possible causes, such as candidiasis, pitted keratolysis, erythrasma, contact dermatitis, eczema, or psoriasis.
A two-component system, involving histidine kinase and a variable response regulator protein, may be critical to the virulence of some fungal strains such as Candida albicans, which is often responsible for causing candidiasis in immunocompromised persons.