Feet dry cracked hard skin is considered to be scaly keratosis pilaris, chronic eczema, environmental dryness and other causes, can be through the topical drug therapy, oral drug therapy, improve the environment and other measures to regulate.
1. scaly keratosis pilaris: mainly due to dermatophyte infection, can be manifested as skin roughness, skin thickening and flaking, dryness, etc., easy to cause cracking and even bleeding in winter.
External drugs can choose benzoic acid ointment for local softening, exfoliation, followed by the use of miconazole ointment, terbinafine cream and other antifungal drugs; severe oral terbinafine tablets, fluconazole capsules and other antifungal drugs.
2. Chronic eczema: internal and external stimuli caused by a variety of factors resulting in skin inflammatory reaction caused by chronic eczema, will cause skin moss-like changes, skin thickening cracks.
Topical drugs can be used externally with compound dexamethasone acetate ointment and other medications; oral medications can take loratadine, cetirizine and other antihistamines.
3. Dry environment: long-term outdoor work or dry indoor air, local wind and sun and other reasons, can also cause feet dry cracked crust.
You can use urea ointment, petroleum jelly ointment, vitamin E ointment for local softening; improve the dry environment, avoid prolonged wind and sun exposure.
Dry cracked feet with hard skin may be caused by other reasons, it is recommended to go to the hospital for examination and treatment as prescribed by the doctor. All of the above drugs should be used in accordance with medical advice.