The difference between calluses and corns and treatment

  Calluses are commonly known as “calluses” and “corns” are also known as “meat spurs”. Calluses generally have no conscious symptoms and are characterized by localized yellowish flat elevations of the skin. While corns are a kind of limited cone-shaped keratinous growths, the tip is deep into the skin, the base is exposed on the surface, round like a chicken eye so named, there is obvious pressure pain, walking inconvenience as a characteristic. Correct daily care of the foot is the key to prevent corns, calluses .  Introduce a few examples as a reference: 1, soak feet: first let the feet in warm soapy water soak 5-10 minutes, which not only softens the skin, but also to completely remove deep dirt. If you use a more moisturizing bath products, will be more gentle than ordinary soap. Next, use a soft brush to gently brush the soles of your feet, backs and toes to remove excess dead skin. Finally, wash your feet well and dry them carefully with a towel. Can not just step on the towel in the bathroom doorway twice even.  2, grinding feet: suitable for grinding feet tools, with extremely fine abrasive cloth made of files or grinding stone. The action of circling the heel, the bottom of the foot, the big toe below these parts of the easy to grow calluses a little grinding can be. This step is good to do once a week, otherwise the skin will be this mechanical action of grinding as an external invasion, but grow a thicker layer of skin to fight it.  3, wearing shoes: should wear the right size shoes, to ensure that shoes are not too small, too narrow, and the skin of the foot is compressed; in the shoes easy to rub parts lined with a soft pad to prevent skin damage. Calluses and corns, the treatment of the two is similar.  Now introduce a few effective and easy to use therapy, patients may wish to try.  1, take 10 umeboshi, research into fine powder, put in a bottle, add sesame oil soaked 7 to 10 days, and can be even. Use first to warm salt water soak the affected area for 30 minutes, to soften the coarse skin and then cut off the coarse skin, take the appropriate amount of ointment applied externally, wrapped with gauze, 12 hours to change the medicine once, 3 days for a course of treatment; 2, take the ground bone bark, safflower 10 grams each, a total of finely grinded, add the right amount of fragrance oil to make a paste, in hot water every night after washing the feet coated on the affected area, covered with non-toxic plastic film, and then fixed with adhesive tape, with the effect of softening the skin; 3. Take aloe vera with a little salt water research as a paste, in every night after hot water soaking and washing the feet, the paste will be applied to the affected area, outside the plastic film covered with adhesive tape fixed, once a day, 10 days for a course of treatment; 4, take the purple skin of a single head of garlic 1, onion white a, pepper 3 ~ 5, a total of pounding like mud, depending on the size of the corns on the corns, sealed with adhesive tape, 24 hours after removing the tape and mud, 1 time not healed can be used again; 5, take More than ten pills, first the affected area washed and disinfected, with a sharp knife to cut the surface of the keratin layer, soaked in salt water for half an hour, and then the drug research for fine, vinegar paste, coated with the affected area, tape fixed, 3 days to change the medicine once; 6, several tablets of aspirin with salt water into a paste, and then applied to the affected area with a hot towel for 10 minutes, once a day, a week for a course of treatment, can make the hard skin off. Some readers are too eager to treat, using razor blades, scissors to cut thick calluses and corns, which is very dangerous, improper operation, will cause skin breakage, triggering bacterial infection. Timely and symptomatic treatment, both do not affect daily life. The affected area is found to be ulcerated, bleeding, pus should be treated immediately to the hospital, so as not to delay the disease, due to small losses.