Feet care
Daily wash your feet twice with warm or cool water and soap, lubricate your skin with a special foot cream. Surely you will feel cheerful after a simple massage with a hard terry towel: the foot of the fingers and up massage more vigorously, and the knees and thighs are weaker.
Some recommendations to those who have veins on their legs expanded. Massage - only with the permission of a doctor. If you have a lot to stand during the day - work by bandaging your feet with elastic bandages. For prevention, lie down after work for 15-20 minutes with raised legs. When venous nodes appear, prolong the rest up to 30-45 minutes.
And here's a recipe that quickly removes the fatigue of a day's work: rub your feet with a piece of ice containing mint extract. Or make contrasting baths: 5 minutes in hot water and 10 seconds in cold water. When the legs are "buzzing" with fatigue, a bath of infusion of mint, cannabis and elderberry will help you out. And then grease your feet with cream.
When rubbed, inflamed skin of the legs are nice cool baths with decoction of pine needles or chamomile.
If on the heels of the skin is crusted and cracked, after the hot foot bath, which added 2 teaspoons of soda, put on the heel of the onion compress. Mashed onions are applied to the heels, covered with a plastic wrap and bandaged overnight. In the morning, the onions are washed off, the heels are thoroughly cleaned with pumice and smeared with a fat cream. Usually 2-3 procedures are enough.
It is also recommended to make soda baths daily( 30 g of soda per 10 liters of water) every night. If the skin is keratinized, soap the wet heels with soap after a day, leave it for 5-10 minutes, and then rub the skin with pumice and wash the soap. After that, spread the heels with a foot cream.
Well soften the skin and soothe the itchy skin of the bath with starch, beer yeast. They put on 30-40 g per 10 liters of warm water( 36-38 ° C);the duration of the procedure is 30-40 minutes.
The hard knee skin can be softened with vegetable oil, with the addition of lemon or orange juice in a 10: 1 ratio. The mixture is applied for 20 minutes, washed off with warm water, and the knees are lubricated with a nutritious cream.
When sweating feet, make nightly baths from the oak bark broth( 50-100 g for 3-5 liters of water) or infusion of sage and nettle( 50-100 g of the mixture for 3-5 liters of water) for the night. Another infusion - from the bark of a white willow, leaves of mint or elderberry. In addition, it is recommended within four weeks to take inside the infusion of sage and nettle( 15 g of dry leaves per 0.5 liters of water) twice a day for 1/4 cup. A good effect is made by table salt: throw two handfuls on a basin of water and hold in it the legs of 10 min, for
then sprinkle talcum or oil with a foot cream. Instead of salt, you can pour a glass of vinegar into the basin.
Feet feet must necessarily be well-groomed. This will affect your well-being, but at the same time will give you confidence. Try to do a pedicure: feet need to steam out in water or infusion of herbs( chamomile, mint, calendula, wormwood), remove calluses, coarsened skin. Nails are given a beautiful shape: the skin is removed or shifted around, if desired, they can be varnished. Cutting your toenails, do not cut corners, otherwise the nail will grow into a finger. After a pedicure, the skin needs to be lubricated with a special foot cream or any nutritious cream.
Get rid of the old calluses help hot foot baths. Add water baking soda( 1 teaspoon per liter of water), infusion of chamomile or needles, and if there are cracks in the skin, stop the calendula tincture( 1 tablespoon of tincture per liter of water) or manganese-potassium potassium at the tip of the knife, so that the bath waterbecame pink. After steaming, gently rub the callus with pumice stone, then apply a special foot cream or any nourishing cream on the skin.
If your hair grows on your feet, then, as already noted, it is useful to wipe them with a soap brush dampened in 3% hydrogen peroxide once a day or two, and( daily) with pumice, then lubricate with cream.
Sometimes a painful "bone" forms near the thumb of the foot. Most often it occurs in women and brings a lot of suffering.
Many blame for the appearance of "bones" the deposition of salts, gout and do not know that this is a consequence and one of the manifestations of transverse flatfoot.
The cause of transverse flatfoot is the hereditary weakness of the ligamentous-muscular apparatus. Contribute to its development of overweight, weight transfer, tight and narrow shoes.
It is widely believed that it is possible to get rid of "pits" by lavishing them with iodine tincture, a solution of razor blades in acetic essences, and even compresses from urine. This opinion contradicts the truth, because such "treatment" causes only painful changes in the skin, up to its ulceration.
Relieve pain, improve blood supply to the feet daily warm( 36-37 ° C) foot baths with the addition of sea salt, baking soda or soap foam for 10-15 minutes. Wipe dry the foot after the bath and lubricate the skin with a nourishing cream, perform several exercises to strengthen the musculoskeletal apparatus of the feet: grasp the fingers with small objects, stretch the rubber band around the toes with the thumbs of both feet, move in all joints of the feet and ankles. Self-massage of feet and legs will also improve blood supply, strengthen muscles, relieve pain and fatigue. Stroking, rubbing, kneading is done from the fingers to the heel along the sole and from the foot to the knee joint along the inner and back surfaces of the shins. With persistent severe pain in the "bones" physiotherapy procedures are prescribed.
Try to select shoes carefully. In the initial stage of the disease, you can wear mass-produced shoes - a large completeness, with an extended toe. When the deformation is progressing, it is recommended to put orthopedic insole in the shoes with the laying of the transverse and longitudinal arches. Insoles are put in ordinary shoes, which should be a number larger, deep, with lacing. With individual features of the feet or pronounced deformation with curvature of the fingers, orthopedic shoes should be worn.