Cracked heel

Introduction The heel crack 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

Cause of dry heel

1. Weather factors In cold weather, blood circulation is poor, skin elasticity is reduced, and it is easy to cause foot cracks.

2, metabolic disorders Some women after birth, causing metabolic disorders, the formation of foot cracks.

3, nutritional factors lack of vitamin a, vitamin e can cause foot cracking.

4, fungal infection

The erosive athlete's foot is often cracked after the skin is peeled between the toes. This is a wet athlete's foot, and the topical fungicide can be used. This article discusses the routine skin dryness of the foot crack, keratotic foot gas belongs to dry athlete's foot, the symptoms are the foot root, the edge of the foot.

an examination

Related inspection

Physical examination of skin diseases

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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