How to get rid of corns
Sometimes women complain of pain and other inconveniences associated with the appearance of corns and calluses on their feet. Coarse areas of the skin also look ugly, so you have to resort to the help of pedicure masters to remove them. Today we will talk about the reasons and ways to eliminate this trouble.
Causes of corns
The appearance of such unpleasant things as corns, dry and wet calluses and blisters on the feet are familiar to many people. The most famous and common reasons include:
- Poor quality footwear that causes inconvenience and chafes on the skin when worn. Of course, almost every girl tries to look beautiful, while sacrificing convenience and comfort for the sake of beauty and fashion. Tight and narrow shoes, and even more so not suitable in size, leads to the rapid formation of corns and corns. There is only one piece of advice here - choose comfortable shoes that match your size.
- An important cause is skin lesions by a fungus. Certain types of fungus, such as candida, cause thickening of the skin. It gets rough and cracks.
- The third reason for leg troubles is extra pounds and diabetes. These reasons can go together, but not always. With diabetes mellitus, a person's blood circulation is disturbed and the value of sugar in the blood rises significantly. For these reasons, the patient develops a diabetic foot... With such an ailment, the skin thickens greatly, loses sensitivity, and begins to crack. Excess weight further worsens the situation, as it increases the load on legs.
Callus plaster
You can eliminate corns with a special plaster. This remedy will help remove dry calluses, rough skin. It does not bring any inconvenience and fixes perfectly on the leg.
There are several types of plasters that relieve corns. Compid is among the best. This patch allows you to eliminate ingrown calluses, relieves pain, at the same time, the patch allows the skin to breathe. Before applying the patch, you must leg steam in a hot bath. Then all the hardened skin is carefully cut off. The leg must be wiped dry and the plaster applied. If the corns does not pass in a few days, then the procedure can be repeated.
The Salipod patch works in a similar way. It contains sulfur and salicylic acid. As a result, all bacteria that are on the skin are killed, and the salicylic acid removes the hardened layer of the skin and allows sulfur to penetrate deeper.
How to treat corns
The most important rule when treating corns is to remove what injures the skin. If the reason for this is uncomfortable shoes, then you need to replace them with more comfortable ones. Deformity of the foot must be treated and shoes with orthopedic effect must be selected.
Then it is necessary to eliminate the corns itself. Apply keratolytic cream to the keratinized area of the skin, fix the patch on this area of the skin overnight. By morning, the skin will be soft and can be removed with a pumice stone. To completely eliminate corns, several procedures will be enough.
When treating corns, it cannot be cut off. Sometimes, especially large corns, need to be removed surgically. But this should only be done by a specialist and only in a clinic. The corns are removed by laser, cryotherapy or drilling. The most effective and painless way is to use a laser. In this case, the operation lasts only a few minutes, does not cause pain and is carried out in one session. After the operation, it is necessary to wear special shoes and to limit physical activity for the first time. If possible, get an X-ray of the foot to see if there are joint problems, arthritis, or gout.
