The skin on the feet and between the toes is also often not in the most favorable conditions. During the day, a person spends most of his time in shoes, walks a lot, his feet sweat, his skin gets injured, etc. Depending on the conditions of the situation, for example, this list may be supplemented with other types of negative factors and influences.
As a result, the skin of the legs can react to such conditions in various ways, including exfoliation of epidermal cells, i.e. peeling. In addition, the cause of such a reaction is sometimes diseases, both skin and systemic, affecting the condition of the epithelium. Causes of peeling between the toes include:
- improper/insufficient hygiene;
- fungal infections;
- skin diseases;
- structural changes in the epithelium;
- allergic reactions.
Each of the listed reasons requires appropriate measures to eliminate the resulting symptom. In any case, eliminating the cause will lead to restoration of the quality and appearance of the skin.
Let's try to identify the main reasons
All people are susceptible to peeling and related troubles and experience it at least once in their lives. But in reality this happens much more often. It’s just that we don’t always notice the problem at the initial stage, when there are still no unpleasant sensations. And when we already pay attention to the irritating itching and see that the skin is peeling, only then do we begin to understand that everything is not so simple and something needs to be done.
But first, let's find out what the main causes of peeling skin between the toes and hands are. Most often, you can notice such changes in the skin with the arrival of spring.
Why? Because the manifestation of such symptoms can be provoked by a basic lack of vitamins. After all, the skin between the fingers and toes is very delicate and sensitive to any changes occurring in the body.
The next, most common cause of a violation of the integrity of the skin between the toes is an allergic reaction to all kinds of care products, cosmetics and its components.
Therapy
Treatment of fungal infections on the legs is carried out on an outpatient basis. Complex therapy includes pharmaceutical and folk remedies.
When a bacterial infection occurs, anti-inflammatory, antibiotic and bactericidal agents are added to the treatment regimen.
Medicines
Fungus between the fingers is difficult to treat. Therapy for the disease lasts from 1 month to a year. Mild forms of pathology are eliminated faster and easier. The disease cannot be ignored in the early stages, when the first mild symptoms appear. If you experience discomfort in your toes, you should immediately visit a doctor.
Anti-inflammatory therapy
Inflammation is relieved using 20-minute foot baths with the addition of manganese permanganate. After the procedure, the skin is dried and cleaned of dead and flaking tissue. Then treated with an antiseptic:
- make an application with boric acid or resorcinol,
- Fukortsin.
When the weeping disappears, the epithelium dries out, the lesions are lubricated:
- brilliant green,
- Fluorocort,
- Ultralan with corticosteroids.
Antimycotic drugs begin to be used after suppression of inflammation.
Treatment for bacterial infection
If the fungus is complicated by a bacterial infection, combined medications are used. Apply to damaged epithelial tissues:
- Betamethasone,
- Akriderm,
- Pimafucort is an ointment based on hydrocortisone,
- Natamycin,
- Neomycin.
Systemic treatment with drugs in tablets
Various complications develop against the background of fungal infections. Patients develop allergies, erysipelas, eczema, and concomitant pathologies become aggravated.
Allergic reactions and itching are relieved with antihistamines:
- Suprastin,
- Diazolin,
- Zyrtec.
Simultaneously with antiallergenic tablets, injections of 10% calcium gluconate are given. To cure the disease, antimycotic drugs in tablets or capsules are used.
Patients are prescribed tablets based on terbinafine:
- Lamisil,
- Terbinafine-Teva.
- Orungal,
- Irunin.
To relieve a fungal infection, medications containing fluconazole are used. Tablets with this active substance are called:
- Diflucan,
- Flucosan,
- Mycomax.
Basic therapy is supplemented with medications that improve certain functions of internal organs:
- Festal normalizes intestinal function and restores the process of absorption of nutrients.
- Trental improves blood flow in the feet.
- Arbidol and Taktivin increase immunity.
At home
Baths are made according to the following recipe:
- Soda-salt solutions are an effective home remedy for fighting fungus. The water is heated to 38-40 ℃. Add 1 teaspoon of salt and soda to the liquid. Soar your feet for 20-30 minutes. Cleanses the skin of dead tissue. Treat feet with local antimycotics. The procedure is carried out daily before bedtime.
- Herbal. Prepare the collection: mix chamomile, plantain, and celandine in equal quantities. Boil 1 liter of water, add 3 tablespoons of raw materials. Cool the infusion to 38-40 ℃. Immerse your feet in the liquid for 20 minutes. Remove dead tissue from the surface of the skin. Treat your feet with antifungal drugs.
Lotions help fight fungus:
- soak a cotton pad with a 9% vinegar solution,
- apply the application to the lesion,
- wrap in plastic wrap, leave for 5 minutes,
- wash the foot with warm water,
- lubricate the affected areas with a local antimycotic.
This recipe is used to treat adult patients. On the delicate skin of children, the application may leave a burn.
All folk remedies are used in combination with medications. Use home methods on the recommendation of a dermatologist.
Pay attention to skin hydration
- It should also be noted that the skin between the fingers begins to peel due to overdried skin. Few people know, but it turns out that the feet themselves do not have enough moisture and, if the need for hydration arises, they are not able to provide this process on their own.
- Add to this the insufficiently humid air in the room, and this is the result! The skin between your toes and hands peels off and itches.
- Another reason why the skin peels off between your toes can be poor-quality shoes. Nowadays, not everyone can afford to purchase shoes made from high-quality materials that will provide absolute comfort to a person. And leatherette, which is increasingly used for the production of shoes, is completely unsuitable for providing adequate oxygen supply to the skin. Feet in such shoes simply suffocate and sweat. And all this, naturally, will lead to the most unpleasant consequences.
Homemade masks for dry skin on feet
Mix freshly squeezed tomato juice in equal proportions with oil. Apply the resulting mixture to your feet and ankles.
Oranges, beaten in a blender with starch and any vegetable oil, can be used as a nourishing base for a moisturizing mask. The mask should be washed off with cool water 30 minutes after applying it to the skin.
A mask of orange and vegetable oil perfectly moisturizes the skin
Age, nutrition and environment are important
- It is also worth taking into account age-related changes in the body, which are aggravated by insufficient nutrition and polluted environment.
- And also a lack of vitamins A and group B at any age contributes to the problem that the skin between the toes peels off.
- And the lack of vitamins E and C, the lack of fatty acids and minerals leads to consequences that are very difficult to hide - the skin between the fingers peels off.
And this is not only unpleasant, but also has an unaesthetic appearance.
More rare causes
The previous causes are the most common for peeling skin on the legs and arms.
- More rare causes may be frostbite and the effect of low temperatures on the extremities, viral damage to the skin, and dermatoses.
- And we all know the expression “all diseases come from nerves.” So, here it can also cause such a reaction in your skin. Neurological disorders, prolonged stress and anxiety can provoke a disease, which will manifest itself in the form of skin peeling off the fingers, causing discomfort.
Timely diagnosis and treatment are the key to a positive result
The most important thing is to detect symptoms in time and be sure to consult a dermatologist. For positive treatment of peeling skin of the hands and feet, it is very important to establish the correct cause of the disease in order to avoid even more complex consequences.
If there is no disease as such, it is quite easy to get rid of the unaesthetic appearance of protruding skin between the fingers. You can use a pumice stone or scrub for your feet or hands, removing any remaining dead skin and moisturizing the clean surfaces with cream. But if there is already itching, small cracks that cause pain when walking, and the skin is peeling quite intensely, then this can already threaten more serious consequences. Having visited a dermatologist, it is necessary to undergo a special test and thereby completely exclude or confirm the diagnosis of athlete's foot.
Ways to treat peeling skin
Diaper rash must be treated promptly and comprehensively. To achieve a high therapeutic effect, drug therapy must be supported by folk remedies. The main thing is to follow the doctor’s recommendations and not self-medicate.
Medical therapy
The main goal of drug therapy is to eliminate the source of diaper rash.
- If the cause of the disease is a fungus, the patient is prescribed external antimycotic ointments (Exoderil, Bifosin, Climbazol).
- For hyperhidrosis, it is recommended to use talc, Teymurov's paste, Levomekol ointment, and zinc-based creams with a drying effect.
- In severe stages, healing ointments (Lorinden, tar pastes, Locacorten-vioform) help well. Cream with bepanthol or sea buckthorn oil quickly restores damaged skin.
Lorinden helps get rid of severe diaper rash
In the treatment of diaper rash, it is necessary to use antiseptic liquids - furatsilin, potassium permanganate solution, hydrogen peroxide. Such drugs disinfect and dry the skin, which helps stop the infection.
If pharmaceutical drugs act slowly, their therapeutic effect can be enhanced with the help of folk recipes.
If the skin on your toes is peeling, the first thing to do is to provide free air access, since they need to breathe constantly. To do this, you need to wear only shoes made from natural materials. It is also very important to cleanse the skin on your fingers from dead particles. Typically, non-abrasive scrubs and peeling are used for this. You should definitely purchase a cream at the pharmacy that contains keratolytics and fatty acids.
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It is important to constantly moisturize your toes - for this, manufacturers offer a wide range of special high-quality cosmetic creams. Supporters of natural remedies can use a simple and effective way to clean and moisturize the skin on their toes. To prepare it, you need to heat olive or castor oil (100 g) in a water bath, add egg yolks (2 pcs.)
Another natural recipe can be prepared using chamomile decoction (100 g). It is necessary to add starch (2 tsp) and cream containing lactic acid (3 tsp). The mixture must be mixed well and used in exactly the same way as with yolks and butter. An effective method for treating peeling toes is rubbing the affected areas with a bar of laundry soap.
If the cause is a fungus...
A disease that affects the skin between the toes, the main cause of which is a fungus, is quite unpleasant for any person. Athlete's foot begins after infection with a fungus that lives on the surface of the skin or in its upper layer.
- It spreads very quickly and easily - you just need to touch the infected foot or fingers. There is also a high chance of catching a fungus between your toes if you walk barefoot on a floor surface that contains germs, for example, in a swimming pool or a common shower at work, or in the gym.
- Then the shoes become infected, and you, with all this, also become a carrier of the fungus and can infect your family.
- Common symptoms of fungal disease of the feet and hands are, as a rule, inflammation of the skin that itches. The skin between the toes or hands begins to peel off, and cracks appear.
Symptoms of diaper rash between the toes
The disease begins with mild redness and pimples that resemble prickly heat. Red spots affect the skin on the feet and between the toes.
Due to constant humidity, irritation progresses here, which contributes to the development of other symptoms:
- the skin on the feet peels off;
- ulcerative skin lesions occur that constantly itch and may bleed;
- a persistent unpleasant odor emanates from the lower extremities;
- inflammation of the injured areas begins.
Diaper rash causes small sores to appear between the toes.
