Dry skin cracking on the feet, consider the existence of patients with bad habits, keratosis pilaris, palmoplantar keratosis and other factors caused by the phenomenon.
1. bad habits: such as part of the patient himself belongs to dry skin, so the skin is relatively dry and lack of water, coupled with daily life often like to soak the feet or wash the feet of the need to use alkaline detergent, which leads to the skin of the feet of the phenomenon of keratosis pilaris and keratinous damage, caused by the feet of the skin of the dry skin and cracking.
2. Keratosis pilaris: tinea pedis is mainly a skin disease caused by fungal infection of the foot skin, which can be divided into blister type, between rubbing erosion type and scaly keratinized type. The scaly keratosis type is also known as the keratinization and hyperplasia type, which occurs on the soles of the feet, as well as the heels and lateral edges of the feet, and manifests itself as diffuse skin roughness, dryness, thickening, and desquamation, and so on.
3. Palmoplantar keratosis: also known as palmoplantar keratoderma, is a group of chronic skin diseases characterized by diffuse or limited thickening of the skin of the palms and metatarsal areas as well as hyperkeratosis, so it can also cause dry skin and cracking on the feet and other phenomena.
Dry skin and cracks on the feet, it is best to go to the hospital in time to find out the cause of the disease, and then follow the doctor’s instructions for reasonable treatment.