Causes

While fatigue or a skin infection can cause temporarily burning or inflamed feet, burning feet are most often a sign of nerve damage (peripheral neuropathy). Nerve damage has many different causes, including diabetes, chronic alcohol use, exposure to certain toxins, certain B vitamin deficiencies or HIV infection.

Possible causes of burning feet:

• Alcohol use disorder
• Athlete's foot
• Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
• Chemotherapy
• Chronic kidney disease
• Complex regional pain syndrome (chronic pain due to a dysfunctional nervous system)
• Diabetic neuropathy (nerve damage caused by diabetes)
• HIV/AIDS
• Hypothyroidism (underactive thyroid)
• Tarsal tunnel syndrome
• Vitamin deficiency anemia