Dry and cracked fingers may be caused by environmental factors, fungal infections, chronic eczema, etc., which can be improved by enhanced care and medication.
1. Environmental factors: sudden drop in temperature, dry air, fall and winter seasons, frequent contact with water and other external environmental factors, will make the finger skin moisture and oil reduction, and in severe cases, even peeling, redness, dry cracks and other symptoms.
Such patients can help improve the situation of dry and cracked fingers by strengthening care. For example, patients can apply hand cream, use hand mask, appropriate massage, reduce the frequency of contact with water to help improve the symptoms.
2. Fungal infection: a variety of fungal infections of the fingers can lead to localized ringworm of the fingers, so that the fingers localized dry cracks, flakes, pain, intense itching and other related symptoms.
The treatment of such patients is mainly based on antifungal drug therapy, for example, patients can be applied to the fingers of local antifungal drugs such as miconazole, severe cases can be combined with oral itraconazole capsules to help treatment, so as to improve the symptoms of dry cracked fingers.
3. Chronic eczema: chronic eczema of the fingers in the local skin lesions on the basis of mossy changes, there may be symptoms of dry cracked fingers, in addition to the finger erythema, pimples, scales and other skin lesions and intense itching and other symptoms.
Such patients can be helped by topical application of hormonal medications such as tretinoin acetate cream and mometasone furoate cream.
It should be noted that the above treatments need to be carried out under the supervision of a physician to avoid adverse reactions.