It's now 10.5 years since I was diagnosed with PD. About a year before being diagnosed I noticed that it was taking me longer to dry myself after having a shower or a bath. It felt as though the skin was more porous, or rather that the skin held onto the moisture longer. About the same time my wife described me as having a fungal smell. I didn't follow this up at the time. But, once I was diagnosed with PD, I put it down to the difficulty of using a towel. This symptom continues to this day.

Within five years of being diagnosed I had developed fungal infections on both feet and seborrhea on the head and face.

In a group of me and four people I know with PD and their spouses it turns out that all five PwP have fungal infections on their feet, but none of their spouses. Admittedly a very small sample.

I'd be grateful to hear from others, both with and without Parkinson's and with and without fungal infections.

John