Understanding Corns and Calluses -- Treatment
How Do I Know If I Have a Corn or a Callus?
To find out whether a hard patch of skin is a callus or a wart, your doctor will scrape some skin off the affected area. Warts bleed, but calluses just reveal more dead skin. The distinction is useful because warts are viral and resist treatment. Most calluses are easily correctable. Hereditary calluses can be more difficult to correct.
What Are the Treatments?
Most corns and calluses gradually disappear when the friction or pressure stops. To avoid corns and calluses on the feet, wear correctly fitted shoes and moisturize skin to keep it soft.
Most foot doctors discourage the use of over-the-counter salicylic-acid corn remedies. Applied improperly, corn plasters can kill healthy tissue around the corn. Properly positioned moleskin pads can help relieve pressure on a corn.
A doctor will often shave the top of a callus to reduce the thickness.
Oral antibiotics generally clear up infected corns, but sometimes pus has to be drained through an incision. Over-the-counter antibacterial ointments generally don't work on infected corns, because most staph bacteria are resistant to them.
Hydrocortisone creams may help remove cracked calluses. Apply the cream and cover the area overnight with a plastic bag or a sock. In the morning, rub off as much of the callus as you can with a coarse towel or brush. Using a pumice to rub the dead skin from a callus after showering, then applying urea-based cream, can also be effective. Do not try this with corns! Rubbing will just make them more tender and painful.
You can consider surgery to remove a plantar callus, but it is likely to come back anyway. A better approach is to keep your feet dry and friction free. Wear properly fitted shoes and cotton socks, not wool or synthetic fibers that might irritate the skin. If a podiatrist or orthopedist thinks your corn or callus is caused by abnormal foot placement or hip rotation, orthopedic shoe inserts or surgery to correct foot deformities may help correct the problem.
2007-03-12 02:13:55
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answered by Anonymous
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i had corn in my feet one year before but i got it cured by my doctor.4 this he used to apply a bandage on the corn. by this my corn get soft. then he cut it by blade. believe me,it doesn't hurt. u go to some skin specialist ad u can get rid of this corn which is basically a dead tissue. i hope it will help u.
2007-03-12 02:21:46
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answered by gitu 1
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To treat your cracked and cons on your feet only scrubbing and applying moisture is not enough. you need to take care of them in a proper manner. use baby foot easy pack which acts as exfoliate and removes all dead skin form your feet and give you soft feet like a baby. You can buy this on babyfootindia.in, amazon.in, flipkart and Paytm.
2016-07-13 20:46:37
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answered by Tanvi 1
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Yes I can help.
Pharmacy near you should be your good source of medicinal supply for this problem, talk to the pharmacist and he/she will recommend some patch that you need to apply and follow the instructions.
If you are not able to get relief or it keeps coming back then see a foot doctor(Podiatrist).
Have your shoes properly fitted. If they are very old, then check for ware and tear pattern and get them re-souled, or repair. Good shoes is one of the key to foot health. Some of the shoes fashions are very bad for your feet.
If new they my need adjusting or discarding, wrong type for your usage. Or ware them for few minutes a day to break in and slowly increase the time till they get comfortable.
2007-03-12 02:14:31
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answered by minootoo 7
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You will get corn caps in any medical shop. Please put this plaster on the corn and leave it for few days. It works.
2007-03-12 04:20:40
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answered by Anonymous
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stick on corn plasters that are being sold in medical shops.
2007-03-12 02:27:12
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answered by dpkdrj 5
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visit a doctor that is a skin specialist
2007-03-12 02:12:57
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answered by varun 2
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use corn caps
2007-03-12 02:26:15
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answered by koki 2
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sport boots
2007-03-12 02:15:02
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answered by P.RAM 2
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I want you now!
2014-08-25 16:18:37
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answered by David Stoutsen 1
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