Beautiful and well-groomed hands - the pride of any self-respecting girl or woman, especially if her job obliges to keep them constantly in sight. However, how to appear in society, if the skin of the hands became dry, began to peel and crack on the fingers, forming painful wounds?
- Reasons
- External
- Internal
- Treatment
- Child
Hands are our irreplaceable helpers. They are constantly in contact with water, household chemicals, cold wind, frost. To this is added avitaminosis, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, metabolic disorders in the body. Having established the causes of cracking, having passed the appropriate treatment and constantly caring for your hands, you can return them tenderness and beauty.
Reasons for
The premise that the skin on your hands is peeling and cracking is quite a lot. They can be both external and internal.
to contents ^External
- Unfavorable climatic conditions. Long stay under intense infrared and / or ultraviolet rays, in the cold, cold wind without gloves, a sharp change in temperature, humidity causes reddening and flaking of the skin of the hands.
- Frequent hand washing, especially in hot water using disinfectants or soap.
- Use without gloves of potent chemicals( cleaning, washing, washing powder, dishwashing liquid, etc.) or building materials( lime and cement mixes, wallpaper glue, paints, varnish, etc.).
- Work without gloves with earth( planting, weeding) and fertilization( nitrogen, ammonia, ash, saltpeter, etc.).
- Use for the care of hands unsuitable by type of skin or overdue creams.
Internal
- Avitaminosis,deficiency of vitamins A, E, group B.
- Hormonal failure or alteration of the body.
- Disturbance of metabolic processes in the body or water-salt balance.
- Exacerbation of chronic diseases of internal organs( liver, kidney, digestive tract, thyroid gland, etc.).
- Infectious( fungus) and non-infectious epithelial lesions( eczema, psoriasis), allergic reactions. Most often accompanied by inflammation, itching, the skin will crack, the pads of fingers crack.
- Frequent stress, fatigue, malnutrition.
Treatment of
If the cracking is shallow and arose due to the influence of external conditions, it is quite possible to do with soothing procedures. For example, apply a compress to the cracks on the skin of fingers from a grated cucumber, cabbage or a plantain leaf, a mask of honey and glycerin, wax applications.
Then you need to lubricate the skin of your hands with a wound healing cream for the night. It can be purchased at pharmacies( Boro Plus, Bepanten, Rescuer, Panthenol, etc.) or manufactured independently. For this, olive oil, honey and turmeric are mixed in equal proportions, a couple of drops of sandalwood or any other aromatic oil are added. The prepared mixture is stored in a refrigerator.
The baths with the addition of oat flakes, corn flour, starch, mummies or honey, milk, decoctions of healing herbs( psyllium, nettle, calendula, sage, chamomile) have a nice softening and soothing effect on the dry skin of the fingers.
With beriberi it is desirable to lubricate the wound with a mixture of liquid vitamins A and E, any vegetable oil, a mixture of vegetable oil with carrot juice or simply fat mayonnaise. The mixture is applied overnight, and cotton gloves are worn on the hands.
In addition, it is desirable to remove or minimize contact with irritants that adversely affect the skin of the hands and take preventive measures:
- wash dishes, clean in the house, engage in earthwork and construction work only in gloves;
- must protect your hands from cold, frost and strong winds with gloves;
- before going out and putting on a nourishing cream for the night;
- at least once a week to do baths, masks, hands massages;
- to eat as much fresh vegetables and fruits as possible, greens, berries, in the winter-spring period, take multivitamins.
The child
First of all, the human skin performs protective functions, and also participates in metabolic processes, respiratory, thermoregulatory, etc. Since children do not wash dishes and floor with detergents and rarely go outside without a mittenand the causes of epithelial damage are most often internal. Usually the skin of the hands not only splits between the fingers, but also on the elbows, reddens and itches on the cheeks, buttocks, feet, etc.
There are many reasons for such manifestations: dermatitis, allergy, diathesis, eczema, lichen, scarlet fever,scabies, fungus, Staphylococcus aureus, etc. In order to begin treatment, it is necessary to consult a pediatrician and determine why the skin on the arms and legs is cracking in the child.