Trench Foot - Prevention

Prevention

Trench foot can be prevented by keeping the feet not cold and dank . It was also discovered in World War I that a key preventive measure was regular foot inspections by officers. Soldiers would be paired and each made responsible for the feet of the other. If left to their own devices soldiers might disregard the task of taking off their own boots and socks to dry their feet each day, but if it were the responsibility of another this became less likely. Later on in the war soldiers were fighting less and less in trenches which began to decrease instances of trench foot.