Treatment of the skin on the heels from cracks at home. Folk recipes, pharmaceuticals, ointments, medicines

From lack of vitamins, exposure to external factors, internal diseases on heels appear cracks... They cause physical discomfort, do not look aesthetically pleasing, and force people to wear closed shoes even in summer. To cure cracks at home, it is recommended to use medications and folk remedies.

Treatment rules

Treating cracked heels at home will bring positive results if you follow these rules:

• All selected activities must be carried out systematically, without delaying or skipping procedures.
• When applying ointment or cream to cracks, you need to adhere to the recommendation regarding the amount of the product used. In this case do not apply the product in a thick layerbelieving that this will allow you to achieve the result faster.
• Even when using special remedies for cracked heels, it is necessary to carry out thorough hygiene procedures.
• Means must be chosen according to the type of skin.
• If the cracks are caused by wearing uncomfortable shoes, you need to replace them with another one. In this case, the heel should be closed.
• To avoid damaging the heel even more when wearing shoes, it is recommended to use silicone pads that are embedded in the shoes.
• In order not to further damage the skin, it is not recommended to walk barefoot, especially on sand - it dries out the skin and clogs into cracks, interfering with healing.
• Drink more water.
• During the period of treatment, it is recommended to avoid long walks, physical activity performed while standing.
• Doctors also recommend taking care of losing weight.

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Diet

Since one of the reasons for the appearance of cracks in the skin of the heels, its thickening and cracking is a metabolic disorder and the associated slowdown in the rate of renewal of the skin, it is necessary to ensure that a sufficient amount of vitamins and minerals is supplied to the body, not only eating properly at home, but also at work, as well as take care of treatment diseases of the digestive system.

In particular, you need to eat more foods that contain vitamins A, E, F.

1. Most of vitamin A is found in fish oil, in the liver of animals and fish, in vegetables and fruits of yellow, orange, red color, fresh herbs, such as parsley, celery, dill, spinach. A lot of vitamin A contains butter, eggs.
2. To replenish the deficiency of vitamin E, it is necessary to eat vegetable oil, seeds, wheat bran, nuts (for example, almonds, hazelnuts, peanuts, pine nuts), canned fish, porcini mushrooms, greens (for example cilantro, spinach, sorrel), cocoa.
3. Vitamin F is found in vegetable oils and animal fats.

First aid for cracked heels

When cracks on heels you should immediately use a moisturizer. If the cracks are significant and painful, you can seal them with regular fast-setting glue. This unusual way treatment recommend at home used by dermatologists.

1. Before applying the glue, feet should be thoroughly washed with soap and dried.
2. Then glue is applied along the crack so that its edges stick together, thanks to this, the wound will be fixed and will no longer grow from external influences when walking. It will be isolated from bacteria and will begin to overgrow.
3. You don't need to use any additional methods for a week. During this time, the wound will partially heal.
4. Now you need to start removing the dead skin and glue. Gradually, making baths with warm water, they steam out the old skin, treat the feet with pumice stone to speed up the recovery process.
5. You can smear your heels with salicylic, lactic or glycolic acid creams. They are applied after the bath and pumice stone treatment.
6. A moisturizer should be used twice a day.

This method of treatment will allow you to get rid of cracks in 2-3 weeks.

Pharmacy products

• "Hilfix" remedy for cracked heels made in Switzerland. This paste is specially formulated to treat cracked heels. It is important to apply it correctly, since if you ignore the instructions and apply it to the entire skin area, the composition is consumed very quickly. The correct way to use: apply the cream pointwise, only into the crack itself and smear its edges. Then it is necessary to slightly moisten the surface of the skin with water and smear it with your finger. Then the treated area is sealed with adhesive plaster and left for 12 hours, then the procedure is repeated.
  Hilfix does not nourish or moisturize the skin, but it fills cracks and promotes their healing. After three days, you can switch to using a regular nourishing cream. The cost is about 700 rubles.
• Allga San cream. This product contains mountain pine oil, chamomile extract, turpentine, allantoin. The consistency is not creamy, but oily. To enhance the effect, it is recommended to apply the product to steamed skin.Since the composition contains oil, after application, wrap the feet with cling film or put plastic bags on your feet, and socks on top. For the same reason, the treatment is best done at night. The tool helps in a few days of use.
• Cream "Healing against cracked feet", Green Pharmacy... Contains plantain extract and allantoin, which promote skin healing, walnut oil, which has a pronounced emollient effect, wax and tea tree oil, fir, which have protective anti-inflammatory and antiseptic properties. Apply the product overnight and then put on socks.
• Gel "911 Zaschivin". Contains tea tree oil, milk thistle, vitamin F, sage extract. Its effectiveness has been confirmed by clinical trials. The tool helps even with significant damage. After a week of use, deep wounds heal.
• Ointment "Radevit"... Since the occurrence of cracks in the skin of the heels is often associated with a lack of vitamins, the use of such an ointment is justified. It contains vitamins A, E, B2. This is exactly the drug.
• Calendula ointment... This ointment has disinfecting, anti-inflammatory, healing properties. In addition, the medicinal ointment is able to fight the fungus. It softens the skin perfectly.
  It can be applied as an independent product, or you can prepare an ointment from two components at home by mixing the finished composition with vitamin A in a 2: 1 ratio. The course of application is 2 weeks.
• Zinc ointment... It is also effective for cracks caused by fungal diseases. Zinc has a regenerating and softening effect, helps in the treatment of festering cracks, as it has antiseptic properties.
• Salicylic ointment (as well as zinc-salicylic and sulfur-salicylic) has antiseptic emollient properties. After application to the skin, the stratum corneum is exfoliated. The tool is effective both for the treatment of cracks and for prevention.

Patch for cracked heels

The patch has the following useful properties and functions:

• helps to protect the wound from infection,
• fixes the edges of the crack,
• reduces pain.

Cracked heel must be disinfected, cleaned of dirt and only then sealed with a plaster. At home it is necessary to use patches that are specifically designed for treatment cracks, such as the Compid plaster.

It has a breathable structure so that the wound is protected and does not form a greenhouse effect.It is recommended to wear the product until the wound is completely healed. It is necessary to periodically replace the old plaster with a new one.

Crack socks

If deep cracks appear, special silicone socks help.

They are worn at night after applying a moisturizer. They help to soften the thick keratinized layer of the skin, enhance the effect of the applied product.

The result is noticeable after a week of use if you wear the socks at least three times at night.

Skin treatment ointments

1. Applying tetracycline ointment at night in combination with apple cider vinegar helps to get rid of cracks and calluses on the heels. Before applying tetracycline ointment, you need to make a hot foot bath, steam the skin well, and then dry it with a towel.An ointment is applied to the damaged areas, the feet are wrapped with cling film. In the morning, the compress is removed, the bandages are soaked in apple cider vinegar and the legs are wrapped around them. Vinegar helps to soften dead skin, making it easy to remove with a pumice stone.
2. To prepare liquid ointment, take one chicken yolk, 1 tbsp. sunflower oil and 2 tsp. vinegar. The ingredients mix well with each other, steam the legs, apply ointment to the cracks, cover the treated areas with cling film on top. Since the mixture must be allowed time to be absorbed, the ointment is best used at night.
3. Take 1 tbsp. unrefined sunflower oil and 1 tbsp. chopped onions, pour oil into a frying pan and heat, then fry the onion until transparent and golden brown.
   Then you need to put the contents on cheesecloth and drain the liquid. Add about 1 tablespoon to it. beeswax, put the mixture in a water bath and boil for 2 minutes. During this time, the wax will melt. Then the mass is poured into a glass container and placed in the refrigerator. Used as an ointment.
4. Another beeswax-based recipe suggests melt in a water bath 0.5 tsp. beeswax and 1 tbsp. cocoa butter... 1 tsp is poured into the liquid mixture, when it reaches room temperature. base cosmetic oil, such as sea buckthorn or almond oil, pour the liquid into a glass container, put in the refrigerator. Used to lubricate the heels.
5. The easiest way is to use a finished product as an ointment - olive oil... At night, it is necessary to lubricate the feet with oil after steaming the legs.
6. It is useful to make a compress of glycerin and vinegar at night.... In a ratio of three to one, mix glycerin and vinegar, apply the resulting ointment to the cracks, wrap it with cling film, put on socks or bandage your legs. Then they put on woolen socks and go to bed. The next morning, the compress must be removed and the composition is washed off with soap and water.
7. Helps from cracked heels common laundry soap... It is necessary to apply a generous amount of lather on the heels and wait until it dries completely, which will happen in about 10 minutes. Then the heels are treated with pumice stone, the composition is washed off and the affected areas are lubricated with a fat cream. It is recommended to do these manipulations. at home every second day. In two weeks treatment cracks will heal.
8. 1 tsp chopped roots of Potentilla need to pour 1 tbsp. milk and boil in a water bath for 5 minutes. While the composition is warm, it should be filtered. After cooling, it will acquire a jelly-like consistency. The resulting mass is smeared with cracks like an ointment.
9. 1 tbsp baby cream is mixed with 2 drops.lavender essential oil and 2 drops. chamomile ether... Rub the ointment into the cracks in the morning, afternoon and evening until complete healing. The prepared mass should be stored in an airtight container so that the ethers do not evaporate.
10. 100 g soft butter you need to beat with a blender with 0.5 tbsp. curdled milk... Legs are steamed in a hot bath and the resulting ointment is applied to the cracks, rubbed. You can use this remedy several times a day until complete healing.

Compresses

1. Like olive oil honey can be applied to cracks... After application, wrap the foot with cellophane and put on cotton socks. After the procedure, the legs should be washed well. The manipulations are repeated daily, in the evening. Cracks will heal in 5-7 days.
2. An even greater effect will be obtained if soak wool socks with olive oil, and then put them on your feet and wrap them with plastic or plastic bags. Keep the compress for 4 hours.
3. Cracks on the heels are smeared with honey, and a cabbage leaf is fixed on top. Tie him with a bandage. By repeating the procedure periodically, you can get rid of cracked heels in two to three weeks.
4. Fresh sour apple you need to grate on a fine grater, then spread on gauze and wrap her feet in the place where cracks are observed. Keep the compress for half an hour.
5. Usual onion need to be cut into thin plates and applied to cracked heels. A bandage must be used for the bow to adhere well to the skin. After 2-3 hours, the compress is removed. Wash off the onion juice with warm water and lubricate your feet with a moisturizer.
   
   
6. Grind 2 tbsp. elecampane roots, pour 1 liter of water... Put in a water bath and heat to a boil. Pour everything into a thermos. Leave to infuse overnight. Compresses are made from this infusion daily. The crack will heal in a few days.
7. You need to boil the usual oatmeal in water, quite a lot of linseed oil is added to it, mix until smooth. Divide the composition into two parts and transfer to two packages. These bags are put on your feet and wrapped with something warm on top. Withstand the compress for 2 hours and remove the packages. The feet are washed with warm water, wiped off with a towel and a cream of high fat content is applied to the skin. To notice the result, it is enough to do this procedure about 5 times.
8. Add 2 tablespoons to 200 ml of boiling milk. leaf mother and stepmother... Then, for an hour over low heat, the mixture is heated in a steam bath. Then the liquid is removed from the steam bath and cooled. The gruel from the mother and stepmother is spread over gauze and applied to the crack for 30 minutes. The product should be used daily.

Masks

1. Grate a small a slice of zucchini and connect 1 tbsp. masses with 1 d. l. olive oil... Spread this mixture over cotton pads and apply to the heels. Fix with cling film. You need to put on socks on top. After 15 minutes, the composition is washed off and the feet are rinsed with water. From above, you can lubricate the skin for greater effectiveness with a regular nourishing cream or a special one with keratolics.
2. It will help soften and heal the skin orange mask... Peel the orange, chop its pulp finely and add 2 drops. olive oil. The resulting mass is distributed over gauze and areas with cracks on the heels are wrapped in it. Gauze is fixed on top with polyethylene. After 15 minutes, the composition is washed off.
3. Take 1 tbsp flowers of calendula. Pour 100 ml of water and boiled in a water bath for 5 minutes. After cooling, the broth is filtered. Onion onion grated on a fine grater, 1 tbsp. mass prepared from crushed Kalanchoe leaves. Mix the ingredients well and distribute on the heels. Having fixed the mass with plastic wrap, leave the compress for 2-3 hours. The tool needs to be applied for two to three weeks.
4. 1 tsp chopped herb celandine pour 50 ml of boiling waters, cover and leave for 2 hours. The infusion is filtered, 30 ml of honey and 30 ml of Kalanchoe juice are added to 1 tbsp. decoction of celandine.The mass is mixed until homogeneous and distributed over the damaged skin for one to two hours. The softened skin must be carefully removed and the areas are lubricated with a fat cream.
5. Liquid honey is mixed with cottage cheese and sour cream in equal proportions, achieving a uniform consistency. This mass is distributed over the affected steamed skin, plastic bags are put on top.
6. For painful inflamed cracks, it is advised to use a mask prepared from honey and sea saltmixed in equal proportions. Legs are steamed in a whey bath to soften the stratum corneum. Then you should distribute the mass in a thick layer, put bags on your feet or wrap them with plastic wrap, put on socks on top. The product is left overnight. In the morning it washes it off and easily massaged the skin with a pumice stone. After processing, rub in a cream with vitamin E.
7. Bottom leaf from aloe put in the refrigerator for two days. Then it is crushed, for example, grated. Squeeze the juice of aloe and, without mixing with anything, apply to the cracks. Aloe juice removes inflammation, saturates the skin with vitamins, and stimulates its renewal.
8. Can mix 100 ml of aloe juice with 50 ml of eucalyptus essential oil and 150 ml of castor... Also connect 1 tsp. aloe juice with egg white. These mixtures are applied to the feet for 20 minutes, then washed off with cool water.

Cracked heels

• Warm up 1 liter of water to a temperature of 70 degrees. 30 g of potato starch are poured into water, mixed, poured into a bath and the feet are dipped into the solution. Periodically you need to add hot water so that it does not cool down, and so on for half an hour. After 30 minutes, the legs are removed, wiped off with a towel and nourishing cream is applied, cotton socks are put on top. It is recommended to perform this procedure within two weeks.
• 2 tbsp soda is poured into 1.5 liters of heated water, mixed. The feet are lowered into a bath with this solution for 15 minutes, then the heels are treated with pumice. Rinse with water, wipe off with a towel and apply a moisturizer.
• You can combine soda with laundry soap, then you need to dissolve 1 tbsp in 2 liters of hot water. shavings of laundry soap and 1 tsp. soda. Baths are made daily for 20-30 minutes. After the procedure, you need to rinse your feet with water.
• 5 liters of water is heated to a temperature of 60-70 degrees, add 1 tbsp. 3% hydrogen peroxide. Keep feet in the solution for about 30 minutes, periodically treating the heels with a hard washcloth. It is enough to carry out this procedure 2-3 times a week.
• 2 tbsp nettle is poured into 1 liter of boiling water and insisted until it cools, then filtered through cheesecloth and infusion is used for baths. You should keep your feet in the broth for 20 minutes. Then they are wiped off and the cracks are treated with salicylic ointment. Then a greasy cream is applied and a light massage is performed. After a week of daily procedures, the cracks disappear.

  

To cure cracked heels at home, use pharmacy products and formulations made from natural products according to folk recipes.

Many patients are inclined to treat with pharmaceutical products, since they are more convenient to use and the results from the use come faster. But homemade masks and compresses, when used systematically, help to heal cracked heels at no extra cost and is absolutely safe for health.

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