Daktarin gold cream treats mild athletes foot with just one week of use and provides relief from athletes foot for weeks and weeks it also rapidly relieves that annoying itch between the toes daktarin gold cream contains the active ingredient ketoconazole which is a type of medicine called an antifungal it is used to treat infections with fungi and yeastsdaktarin gold works in the outer layer of the skin this enables it to directly target the infection that causes athletes foot even after