The “Hand-Me-Down” Surprise: Why Your Son Has Yellow Bumps After Wearing a Neighbor’s Shoes

It starts innocently: your kid swaps shoes with a neighbor for “just a bit.”

No drama. No tears. No limping.

Then a day later: “It pinches.” “It rubs.” “My toe hurts.”

You pull off the socks and see it—hard little yellow bumps on the toes or side of the foot.

Your brain goes straight to worst-case mode: fungus? infection? warts?

Most of the time, it’s none of that. It’s your child’s skin doing what skin does best: building armor where the shoe is attacking it.

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