PODIATRIST DISCUSSES HOME TREATMENT OF CALLUSES

If you’ve ever noticed hardened skin around areas where your bones are more prominent, like the ball of your foot, under your pinky toe, or at your heel, it’s likely a callus. "Essentially the skin is in between a rock and a hard place," Miguel Cunha, DPM says. "The rock being the bone and the hard place being the shoe or the ground." Over time, the friction of the skin rubbing between the bone and the shoe causes it to harden and that build-up of hard skin is called a callus.

 

Dr. Miguel Cunha

 

Dr. Cunha suggests soaking the feet in water and adding Epsom salts or apple cider vinegar, both of which help further the skin-softening process. Follow up your foot bath scrub by applying a cream containing urea, which moisturizes and soothes dry cracked skin, to the affected areas. Put your feet into a pair of socks overnight. 

 

Source: Jessica Kasparian, The Citizen [7/1/20]

Courtesy of Barry Block, editor of PM news