The yellowing and thickening of the soles of the feet is considered to be related to friction, tinea pedis, palmoplantar keratosis, etc. The treatment should be based on the cause of the disease through the general treatment, medication and other ways of treatment.
1. Friction: If the patient wears shoes that do not fit the feet or usually exercise more, the plantar skin will be due to friction and lead to local skin thickening, at this time it is recommended that the patient use warm water to soak their feet, and when the local keratin is soft to use tools such as grinding stone to remove the old waste keratin.
2. Tinea pedis: for patients with scaly keratosis pilaris, patients will have local skin thickening, roughness and other manifestations, while the skin is prone to cracking in winter, at this time you can follow the doctor’s instructions to use salicylic acid and other exfoliators, to be exfoliated after the use of miconazole ointment, terbinafine cream and other antifungal preparations externally coated.
3. palmoplantar keratosis: this disease is an autosomal genetic disease, so the patient is mostly in the early childhood on the soles of the feet yellow skin thick performance, this time you can follow the doctor’s advice to use salicylic acid, retinoic acid, and other preparations for external peeling off the thickened keratin, but can not be cured.
For patients with yellowing of the soles of the feet, it is recommended that they go to a regular hospital, clear cause of the disease under the guidance of the doctor active treatment.