What was the disease that was in ww1 that your caught on foot?

Question

What was the disease that was in ww1 that your caught on foot?

Answer 1

gangreen?

Answer 2

Many soldiers fighting in the First World War suffered from trench foot. This was an infection of the feet caused by cold, wet and insanitary conditions.

The soldiers often went weeks without washing or changing clothes, and most were infested with body lice"  Conditions were so wet and dirty and the men had to live with it. As a result of the wet and dirty conditions, many soldiers got 'trench foot'. "Their feet swelled up to two or three times their normal size and went numb...but when the swelling went down, the pain was agonizing. If gangrene set in, the soldiers' feet and legs were amputated"

Answer 3

Trench foot.

Soldiers got it from not being able to dry their feet  for weeks on end, and from not taking their wet boots off to dry out (not that they would have dried).  It is very similar to frostbite.

See:

http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.c...

http://cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/omd?t...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immersion_f...

The foot slowly rotted - if you look it up on

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

there is a horrific picture of a pair of feet with trenchfoot

Answer 4

GANGRENE.

Answer 5

gangreen possibly.

more information.

:)

Answer 6

trench foot

Answer 7

It was trenchfoot but you could also get frostbite in the winters and gangrene. But with frostbite and gangrene you could get that anywhere on your body.