Dry and cracked skin is considered to be related to skin dehydration, chronic eczema and tinea pedis.
1. Skin dehydration: for dry skin or the elderly, due to the skin secretion of oil, water, etc. less, so the patient will appear dry skin, peeling, etc., the skin will appear cracks, accompanied by obvious pain.
2. Chronic eczema: for patients with chronic eczema, due to local inflammation over a long period of time leads to local skin long-term stimulation by inflammation, which leads to skin hyperplasia, resulting in thickening of the skin, moss-like changes, localized cracking may occur.
3. Tinea pedis: scaly keratinized tinea pedis occurs in the palm and metatarsal part and heel, diffuse skin roughness, thickening, flaking, dry, easy to crack or even bleeding in winter, can be accompanied by pain.
For patients with cracked skin, it is important to note that the water temperature should not be too high when bathing, do not over-wash the local skin, can be appropriate to apply vitamin E milk and other moisturizers to relieve local symptoms, if necessary, need to comply with the doctor’s orders to use salicylic acid, urea ointment, such as peeling off the local hyperplasia of the keratin.
For patients with dry cracked skin, it is recommended that they go to a regular hospital, clear cause of the disease under the guidance of the doctor active treatment.