In medicine, calluses are considered a defensive reaction of the skin to a mechanical traumatic effect. Usually corns appear as a result of improper shoe selection. Harmful is a very trampled and spacious, and tight shoes. In addition, calluses arise from wearing high heels. Large body weight increases the load that falls on the foot, and provokes the appearance of corns. The cause of calluses can be flat feet, psoriasis, fungal lesions, diabetes mellitus, a decrease in the vitamin A content and a metabolic disorder.
How to remove calluses on legs?
Corns can be dry or wet. Wet calluses are accompanied by the formation of a bubble filled with fluid or blood secretions. Over time, in the place of such a callus, a rod can be formed, which goes deep into the skin. These calluses are very painful and painful.
Often, even the corpses are attributed to calluses. The reason may be walking barefoot on a hard ground or uncomfortable sole of shoes. Chronic natropsises appear as a result of flatfoot development. You can not fight with cores, they can be removed by a specialist who has laser therapy in service. From the existing calluses can be got rid of in a pedicure room, but it is possible and at home.
Removal of old calluses
They are thickening in the form of the stratum corneum, which are formed from prolonged friction or pressure. Hard corns are usually on the toes and at each step there is a sharp pain. Do not try to cut out an old hard corn, you can infect or cut yourself. In this case, you need to contact the beauty salon.
Corn patches
To remove corns, corn plasters are widely used, including salicylic acid. Make a warm bath for your feet, then wipe your feet dry. A piece of the plaster is separated from the cellophane and attached to the corn. Two days later the plaster is removed. If necessary, apply the patch four times, until the corn itself separates and becomes soft.
Soap and soda baths
When the calluses are running, they can be removed beforehand. To do this, do soap and soda hot baths every 30 minutes. Corn does not rub with pumice stone. This is ineffective and painful. Corns in which the short root, themselves fall out during the usual pedicure and steaming, after about 10 procedures.
Keratolic gel or cream
Deep sprouted calluses are removed with a keratolytic gel or cream, it softens and exfoliates dense and dry calloused formations. If you regularly use it, the calluses will disappear.
Soft corn
You can get rid of a soft watery callus if you take a disinfected needle and treat it with greenery. Then close the punctured corn with a bactericidal plaster. The skin of the wet callus is cracked and dried, so you can not use iodine or alcohol.
For the prevention of calluses can be performed :
- Baths with decoction of oak bark or with sea salt.
- Before going to bed lubricate the feet with vegetable or castor oil, in which to add 2 drops of tea tree oil.
- Regularly eat carrot juice, mixed with cream. In addition, carrot salads are useful in any form with sour cream or vegetable oil.
- Choose comfortable shoes. Do not always walk on high heels. To avoid calluses, you should wear comfortable and soft shoes.
Folk remedies
Ancient Caucasian remedy
It is necessary to steam out a leg in hot water, then wipe it and tie the lemon peel with the pulp to the corn. After 2 days, repeat, then again to steam up the leg and carefully remove the corn.
Fresh Potato Juice
Crude raw potatoes and grate. The resulting mass is put on a napkin folded in several layers and pribintovat to calluses. After 2 hours, remove this mass and replace it with a new one. Use for the treatment of painful corns, as an anti-inflammatory.
Thanks to these tips, you can get rid of corns.