If you constantly wear uncomfortable shoes, you may get a dry callus. This type of corn is distinguished by the fact that it does not contain a liquid inside and has a long-term character. Treatment of dry calluses is a long and often painful process.
What causes dry calluses on the legs?
The most important reason for the appearance of dry calluses is constant pressure on certain areas of the skin. Usually it is the pads of the toes, the heel, the area of the lift and the interdigital space. Corns appear on hands as a result of constant mechanical friction. For example, callus from the handle of the clerk, or corn from the bow at the violinist. With the help of a layer of keratinized particles, our body protects the skin from micro-trauma and, consequently, penetration of infections into the blood. That's why one important rule is to be mastered: it is only worthwhile to deal with corn if you can eliminate the factor that caused its appearance. In this sense, calluses on the legs are amenable to correction much easier, since it is easier to abandon a pair of uncomfortable shoes, or to stop wearing a heel than to change a profession.
Sometimes an increased chance to earn corns occurs with certain health problems:
- diabetes mellitus ;
- diseases of the thyroid gland;
- diseases of the blood and lymph;
- skin dermatitis;
- seborrhea.
If you are at risk, try to wear only comfortable, fit shoes. It is also important to properly treat the grated feet, so that the wet callus, dropsy, does not turn into a dry one. To do this, you need to glue the corn patch and for a while to walk in more loose shoes.
The same plaster can be used for dry callus, but only if it is relatively fresh.
For the treatment of dropsy, many people use this folk method: pierce the dropsy with a needle and pass a thread through it. Free ends should be tied, so that the wound does not get an infection. During the night, the liquid from the corn on the thread will come out and the healing will go faster.
How to get rid of dry calluses?
If you have a dry callus on your toe, you can tie a slice of purified lemon to it for 5-6 hours. After that, the horny skin will soften and it will be easily removed with pumice .
But the large dry calluses on your feet can not be easily overcome. Most often, doctors recommend in such cases to apply to the entire area of the callus salicylic acid solution, or a special drug, such as Wartner gel. The procedure should be carried out twice a day, in the morning and in the evening. Try not to get the drug on healthy skin. After a week, the corn will gradually peel off and in the future completely come down, but the process can be quite painful.
In general, the treatment of dry calluses on the feet primarily involves the rejection of uncomfortable shoes, and only then use of medicines, but sometimes you can begin treatment in advance. For these purposes, pedicure socks are very suitable, which are sold in pharmacies and stores of Korean cosmetics. Putting your socks once a week, you can gradually reduce all the calluses and
Treatment of dry corns with the core is much more troublesome occupation, so it is better not to bring the situation to extremes and fight with rubbers before the rod is formed. If this did happen, you can not do without the help of a professional. Corns with the stem can be removed surgically, or burned with liquid nitrogen. It is not advisable to cut such corns independently, as the stem penetrates too deeply into soft tissues and provokes the growth of a new painful callus at the same place. In addition, blood can be contaminated.