Dry skin on the feet may be caused by localized dry skin, athlete’s foot, eczema, etc. It can be treated by general treatment, topical medication and oral medication.
1. Localized dry skin: If you often wash your feet with too hot water and too strong cleaning soap, it may cause the skin on your feet to be too dry and dry skin on feet may appear. Patients can use moisturizing cream local application to improve the symptoms of dry skin on the feet.
2. Tinea pedis: mainly caused by fungal infections of the skin on the feet, may appear on the feet of dry skin symptoms. Patients can follow the doctor’s instructions to apply local antifungal medication, such as terbinafine hydrochloride cream, compound nitric acid econazole cream and so on.
3. Eczema: due to genetic, environmental, external stimuli and other reasons, can appear on the feet of dry skin phenomenon. You can use urea ointment, glucocorticosteroids such as hydrocortisone butyrate, dexamethasone and other drugs as prescribed by the doctor, and oral antihistamine treatment such as loratadine and cetirizine when accompanied by itching symptoms.
Dry skin on the feet, it is recommended to go to the hospital in time to identify the cause of the disease, and give treatment. The use of drugs need to follow the doctor’s instructions, not self-medication.