Why are feet easy to chapped and crusted in winter? What are the treatments?

Because the weather is dry and cold in winter, it will cause the feet to crack easily. There are many ways to treat it, such as applying vaseline, hand cream, tretinoin ointment and so on. Dry feet in winter are generally less sebum secretion, as well as the elderly, skin diseases, physiological aging and so on. But chapped feet will be accompanied by chapped skin.

My mother often has chapped feet and hard skin in winter. At first, I bought a foot cover for my mother to avoid air drying, but the effect is still not obvious. My mother also applied hand cream to prevent chapped feet from going deep into the skin again, but it still won't get better, so the chapped feet haven't healed in winter. I see that my mother is often tortured by chapped skin caused by dry feet in winter, so I pay more attention to this aspect. You can soak your feet with warm water and salt and apply vaseline after soaking your feet. You should apply it repeatedly for a few minutes.

There are other more troublesome ways to deal with it. Prepare a pot of warm water first, then pour salt and white vinegar into the warm water, then stir it evenly by hand and put your feet in for about 20 minutes. There will be softened crust after soaking. You can cut off these skins with nail clippers, then cut a piece of ginger, put salt on it, and then rub it back and forth on your heel for a second exfoliation. This will relieve the pain for a long time and get better gradually, but you should apply more hand cream during the day. There is also a foot crack cream before going to bed and then put on cotton socks, which will also reduce foot dryness.

These treatments are very simple. The most important thing is to soak your feet often, and then mix with vaseline or hand cream, tretinoin ointment and so on. Only by persisting in this way can the heel not be so dry and the heel will not crack hard.