Cracked soles

Introduction Dry sole of the foot refers to the epidermal hyperplasia of the skin of the sole of the foot, which is dry, loses elasticity, and the stratum corneum of the skin is brittle, causing the epidermis to split.

Cause

There are several cases in which skin cleft palate occurs.

1. Congenital epidermal keratosis abnormal diseases, such as ichthyosis, palmoplantar keratosis, due to hyperkeratosis of the epidermis, the epidermis lacks oil, loses elasticity, and causes skin splitting.

2. For children, women, and the elderly with dry skin, the secretion of oil on the surface of the skin is reduced and lacked. In the winter, the weather is dry, especially the skin of the hands and feet is easy to dry and chapped.

3. People who regularly wash with soap and washing powder, as well as workers who are often exposed to gasoline, kerosene, coal, lime, and cement, are prone to dryness and chapping due to loss of sebum.

4. Due to endocrine disorders, some women (young women and menopausal women) are prone to keratinization, leading to cleft palate.

5. Some people with allergic skin disease, eczema in the hands and feet, especially cleft palate eczema, the skin loses normal function, sebum secretion is reduced, skin thickening, keratinization, prone to cleft palate.

6. Due to skin infection fungi, such as Trichophyton rubrum, causing chronic infection, inflammation of the skin, abnormal keratinization of the epidermis, formation of hyperkeratotic hand, foot and ankle, thickening of the skin keratin, prone to chapped in winter.

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The heel, the foot and the like are often prone to chapped. The skin around the crack is dry, rough, thick, hard, cracked and even bleeding. It is very inconvenient to walk with the pain of walking.

Differential diagnosis

1. Dry toe at the toe: Dry toe at the toe is one of the symptoms of occlusive thromboangiitis. Thrombosis angiitis obliterans (tao) is a kind of vascular inflammation that is different from arteriosclerosis and segmental distribution. The lesions mainly involve the middle and small arteries and veins of the distal extremities. The pathological features are mainly characterized. Inflammatory cells infiltrate thrombus, and less involved in the vessel wall.

2, dry skin: dry skin refers to the season due to changes in water, anemia and other reasons, making the skin thicker and rougher. In autumn and winter, the sebum and water secretion of the human body will gradually decrease, and the skin will become dry. It is called dry skin. Especially in middle-aged and elderly people, the surface of the skin will appear more rough due to the large amount of water, and they will often see their hands and feet. There will be chapped and itchy skin in the calf. If you can't stand the dry itching, you will continue to scratch itching, causing skin wounds, causing inflammation or pus.

3, dry seborrheic: dry skin, and even some peeling and erythema, this is a more common skin disease, called dry seborrheic dermatitis.

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