The common causes of cracked heels include simple chafing, fungal infection, chronic eczema, etc. Depending on the cause, physical therapy and medication can be used to alleviate the symptoms. 1. Simple chafing: Cracked heels, often accompanied by dry itching, pain, local redness and other symptoms, may be simple chafing. Can be used every day through the use of warm water foot soak, local topical application of urea ointment, etc., can be used in the morning and evening, so that the heel skin is fully nourished to achieve the therapeutic effect. 2. Fungal infection: cracked heels may be caused by fungal infection, common keratosis pilaris. For ringworm, you can take oral antifungal drugs, such as itraconazole, terbinafine and so on. You can also use urea ointment externally to treat chaffing, which is good for relieving symptoms. 3. Chronic eczema: due to allergic factors or external stimuli, resulting in cracking of the heel, severe cases can be combined with bleeding, infection. Can be used to treat eczema drugs at the same time the use of drugs to treat cracks, such as pimecrolimus ointment, mometasone furoate ointment and so on. All of the above medications should be used under the guidance of a doctor, avoid self-medication.