 |
|
Foot Care
There are many things you can do to help take care of your feet.
- Avoid walking barefoot, particularly on hard surfaces such as tile or cement
- Avoid flimsy tennis shoes which do not provide adequate support for your feet
- Diabetes foot care: check your feet daily for any signs of infection or irregularities. If you aren't flexible enough to see the bottom of your foot place a mirror on the floor
- Long term use of shoes with a small or pointy toe-box can lead to hammer toes
- Don't neglect foot care for sweaty feet - an untreated chronic sweaty foot can lead to fungal and/or yeast infections
- Long term use of acrylics or paint on toenails can lead to a yeast and/or fungal infection
- Children
and infants with flatfeet or bones that grow inward should be treated.
These conditions will NOT be outgrown
- Sprained ankles should be treated properly in order to prevent a chronic unstable condition
Consider these foot facts when caring for your feet:
- Bunion and hammertoe surgery is not nearly as painful as your neighbor has told you
- Abnormal growths in your foot are rarely cancerous
- Foot soaks for ingrown nails are rarely helpful
- Over-the-counter wart acids are usually weak and ineffective
- Over-the-counter corn and callous pads can burn healthy skin
- No child should experience "growing pains"
- All bunions do NOT require surgery
- Bathroom surgery for corns and calluses often results in bleeding with possible infection
- There
ARE treatments available for broken toes
^top
|
|
