Old people have slow metabolism, more dead cells, less new cells, poor skin elasticity and easy foot cracking.
2. Metabolic disorders
After some women give birth, they cause metabolic disorder and form chapped feet.
3. Dermatosis
Hereditary keratoderma (such as ichthyosis) and diseases with abnormal keratin metabolism (such as chronic eczema) cause foot crack.
4. Mold infection
Erosive beriberi, which often cracks after peeling between toes, belongs to wet beriberi and can be treated with fungicides for external use. This paper discusses the dry foot crack of conventional skin. Keratotic beriberi belongs to dry foot, and its symptom is split heel and foot.
5. Nutritional factors
Lack of vitamin A and vitamin E can lead to foot cracking.
6. weather reasons
In cold weather, poor blood circulation, reduced skin elasticity, easy to cause foot crack. Traditional treatments for cracked feet include sticking plaster; Set plastic bags or plastic wrap; Apply erythromycin ointment and vaseline ointment. First of all, it is necessary to judge whether the foot is infected by fungi. The traditional method of keratotic beriberi is ineffective.
Extended data
This disease can be cured if it is properly protected in winter. Once cracks are formed, they are difficult to treat.
1, keep hands and feet clean and dry, and use grease to protect them when going out in winter to keep warm.
2, such as tinea pedis, eczema, ichthyosis, should be treated at the same time.
3. External use of 1% allantoin cream can exfoliate, stimulate epithelial hyperplasia and relieve or relieve pain.
4, topical healing ointment, glycerin liniment, 15% urea ointment and other drugs. If chapped to the extent of bleeding and burning pain, it is advisable to soak the affected area with hot water to make the skin moist, use a blade to thin the place where the keratin is too thick, and then apply drugs externally.
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