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Сalluses on the soles of the feet - how to get rid of them.

A person's feet are constantly under pressure from the entire body weight, tight and hard shoes, one way or another, mechanically injure the skin on the feet when walking. This leads to the fact that over time the skin on the sole becomes denser, its keratinization increases, which interferes with walking, causing painful sensations. Padded insoles do not save you from unpleasant painful symptoms, and skin thickening can increase over the footprint. The soft pads of the toes suffer in the same way. Especially often, seals form on the pads of the toes due to wearing high-heeled shoes, when the pressure on the foot is unevenly distributed, and most of it falls on the toes.

Such painful seals on the soles of the feet are called corns in everyday life, in cosmetology - dry calluses. The pain that develops with a load on the foot in places of formed calluses forces a person to change the inclination of the foot when walking, which certainly entails deformation of the foot itself and disrupts the work of the joint and ligamentous apparatus of the leg in the ankle. A person's gait changes, the load on the foot is again unevenly redistributed, which leads to the formation of new calluses, but does not solve the problem.

What to do if calluses on the soles interfere with normal walking?

There are many cosmetics (creams, lotions, gels) for getting rid of calluses. Such cosmetics are aimed at softening the skin of the feet. Beauty salons offer procedures for grinding the calluses with special grinding heads, which is also effective for solving the problem with calluses. But if a fairly thick layer of skin has hardened on the soles, then grinding and creams alone will not help. An integrated approach is needed to solve this problem. For which it is necessary daily (for example, in the evening before bedtime) to do baths with hot water and herbal infusions (chamomile, string) or soda baths. Do not use additives with a tanning effect for the bath (oak bark, vinegar essence, vinegars of various origins, salt), they thicken the skin, make it less permeable, and in the case of the treatment of calluses will not help, but will only complicate the problem. After the skin of the feet is well steamed, it becomes loose, rub the rough places with a pumice stone, carefully removing the plaque of dead cells. Next, lubricate your feet with a high fat cream. You can use keratoplastic agents to soften the skin after baths, for example, sea buckthorn oil, olive oil, St. John's wort oil. But it is worth remembering that industrially prepared creams are better absorbed into the epidermis, penetrate deeper into the layers of the dermis and for this reason soften the skin more effectively.

Such baths should be part of the usual daily ritual of body hygiene if there is a tendency to form calluses. One or two procedures (or procedures "from time to time") cannot solve the problem of corns. Glycerin is considered a good tool for softening the skin, with its help, with daily use (in addition to basic procedures), you can achieve a soft, delicate quality of the skin. For these purposes, after water procedures, glycerin is applied to the skin of the feet, dried and lubricated with nourishing creams, allowed to be absorbed, and natural cotton socks are put on for the night (for sleep).

There are methods for removing calluses using salicylic acid solutions, but its action is based on a microburn of the skin of problem areas on the sole with the aim of its subsequent exfoliation and regeneration. In pharmacies, specially made plasters impregnated with salicylic acid are sold, which are glued to the location of the calluses. Salicylic acid, if handled carelessly (in high concentrations), can cause significant skin burns and irritation.