Dry Skin on Foot, Cause and Home Care
June 9, 2009
The virtue of natural skin moisture is it retains the elasticity of skin tone and prevents skin tone from getting dry and rough. If the watery proportion of skin gets abruptly reduced with dryness, some times an erratic itchiness comes to settle in skin tone. Similar problem of dryness issue comes in active disturbance when dryness sets in foot skin. The general symptoms for dry skin on foot are scaling, peeling, and redness of skin tone. Due to the cracking proneness of dry skinned foot, fungal infection gets a smooth entry into skin tone and this creates innumerable skin problems gradually.
By birth, some people own dry skin. But while we take adequate care for face, neckline, hand and other skin parts of body, we do not pamper our foot skin regularly. But on set of gradual aging, foot- skin tends to be drier faster and thus tends to lose its elasticity.
In these situations long shower or hot bath may aggravate the rudeness of dry skin. So bathing in lukewarm water and in post-bath period smearing intense moisturizer on skin prevents from dryness setting in, especially in foot zone.
If anyone observes that dry skin of his/her feet has started scaling and it is inducing intense itchy feeling, you may apprehend a kind of fungal attack on dry skin tone called athlete’s foot. In some cases scaling of foot skin can be initiated due to problem of psoriasis. Hypothyroidism and diabetes patients face this problem of dry skin due to hormonal imbalance in body.
Some self care treatment can control the situation in your favor. But for this reason you need to take some diligent care for foot skin. You need to soak your feet in lemon extract based lukewarm water especially when you are taking shower during daily course of activities. However you should not use any harsh soap or the soaking session should not be prolonged.
After soaking the foot you should exfoliate the dead cell layers from dry skin at least from heel area. After patting dry you have to smear good quality moisturizer on skin tone.
If there is bad odor from foot, or you face excessive sweating on foot, you should use antifungal and anti perspiration foot spray. However, smearing tea tree oil 1-2 drops on toe nail gaps and on the nails prevents fungal infection of feet effectively.
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