What to do with cracked fingertips

Cracked fingertips can be a symptom of physiological factors such as prolonged labor, as well as trauma, chapped eczema, ringworm, and other diseases. The causes are different and the treatments are different. Patients should be under the guidance of the doctor for general treatment, medication and so on. 1. Physiological factors: when the patient has been working for a long time, in a dry environment, hot and cold stimulation, it will lead to more stimulation of the skin of the hands, which will lead to the symptoms of dry and cracked fingertips. Patients should pay attention to the protection of the hands, and can apply some moisturizing cream, hand cream and so on. 2. Trauma: Trauma can lead to symptoms of cracked fingertips. When patients have open wounds, they can be sterilized and cleaned and localized pressure bandages can be applied, and epidermal growth factor gel can be used to promote healing. 3. Cracked eczema: cracked eczema is a common allergic reaction disease, patients can appear in the hands and feet parts of the erythema, hypertrophy, cracking, flaking and so on. Patients can use topical tacrolimus ointment, urea ointment and other ointments. Severe itching patients can use compound flumethasone ointment and other glucocorticoid drugs, need to pay attention to the drug should not be used on a large area, so as not to cause skin atrophy. 4. ringworm: ringworm is due to the hand fungal infection caused by symptoms, which scaly keratinized and erosion type of ringworm in the winter is prone to hand skin cracking symptoms. Patients can use ketoconazole cream and other antifungal drugs under the guidance of the doctor. If the external drug treatment is ineffective, patients can take oral itraconazole, terbinafine and other drugs. It should be noted that the above drugs should be used under the guidance of a doctor, patients should not use on their own, so as not to delay the condition.