As winter approaches, the weather becomes colder and dryer, and some unique symptoms in winter are gradually beginning to appear, causing some inconvenience to life and health.
Xiao Li, 27 years old this year, is no exception. When he walks recently, he always feels that his heels hurt, and immediately feels that his feet are starting to crack and peel again. When he got home from get off work in the evening, Xiao Li took off his shoes and saw that as expected, his heel had "breaked" two holes. "Have you had a poor diet recently and lacked vitamins?" Xiao Li guessed in a daze.
The heel is often dry and cracked and peeled. Is it because of vitamin deficiency?
actually has a certain relationship.
For example, vitamin A, vitamin B2 and vitamin E. Their role in the body is to help the skin secrete oil and maintain the stability and health of the skin environment. If these 3 vitamins are deficient, the skin will become dry and more likely to be invaded by bacteria or fungi, causing infection.
In this case, skin keratinization and desquamation are more common. If stimulated by cold weather in autumn and winter, dry and cracking will become very common. Therefore, if your heels are often dry, cracked and peeled, you might as well reflect on whether there are any problems with your daily diet, such as vitamin A, vitamin B2 and vitamin E, which should be supplemented in time in daily life.
Then , how should these 3 vitamins be supplemented?
Vitamin A: mainly helps the skin secrete oil, improves skin toughness, and reduces the risk of cracking. For example, animal liver, carrots, spinach, seafood and other foods are the main source of vitamin A and are increased in daily diet.
Vitamin B2: mainly helps the skin promote oxidation reaction , maintains the normal metabolic function of the skin and self-restoration ability. If vitamin B2 is lacking, the healing speed of dry and cracked skin will slow down, and the cracking will be more serious. Supplementing vitamin B2 mainly depends on the intake of high-protein foods such as eggs, milk, and lean meat.
Vitamin E: Among many foods, nut foods are the main source of vitamin E. For example, peanuts, almonds, pistachios, , etc. are all good choices. Vitamin E intake can promote body detoxification and reduce the accumulation of toxic metabolites on the surface of the skin to achieve the effect of adjusting the health of the skin environment.
To sum up, if the heel is cracked and peeled due to vitamin deficiency, supplementing the corresponding nutrition can also be relieved. However, if there is no improvement after adjusting your diet, you should consider whether there are hidden dangers of other diseases.
The heel is repeatedly dry and cracked, and you should also be careful whether there are these two hidden dangers of disease
①There may be intestinal symptoms
From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, there are problems such as chronic enteritis and intestinal obstruction. One of the major factors is that there is "phlegm and dampness" in the body. Phlegm and dampness lead to obstruction of the body's transportation, transformation and metabolism, the skin change efficiency of the foot is reduced, and the dead skin gradually accumulates on the feet and eventually cracks.
So, if you have cracked heels, you might as well pay attention to whether you have lost appetite, abdominal pain and diarrhea, or abnormal bowel movements recently, and go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.
②Symptoms of fungal infection
Some people's feet are prone to sweating, and they are not properly cleaned, which makes fungal breeding easy. Fungal reproduction leads to the ecological environment of the foot skin being destroyed, moisture and oil being consumed by the fungus, and the skin of the foot will become cracked.
If the feet are dry and cracked and molted, and there is itching or pain, the possibility of fungal infection is relatively high. You can go to the hospital to buy special medication for treatment. In addition, the normal prevention work should also be done well: washing your feet frequently and trying to penetrate breathable and loose shoes and socks are the most basic methods to prevent fungal infection.
The heels are dry and cracked, not just skin damage. As the cracking deepens, there may also be pain and bleeding. Taking timely measures to relieve the problem is also one of the correct ways to protect the skin of the foot.
How should we deal with the heel cracked?
First, you can use to soak in warm water:
Most of the reasons for heel cracked is lack of water. The skin is deficient due to abnormal symptoms, so naturally, it is necessary to replenish water. Soaking in warm water is a good choice to add extra moisture to the skin of the foot and prevent the symptoms of dryness and chapping.
Apply special ointment : Different ointments have targeted effects on skin cracks caused by different reasons. The use of drugs needs to be carried out according to the judgment of the doctor's order.
In short, cracked heels will become common in autumn and winter. Only by finding out the reasons and finding the right method to solve them can we recover more efficiently. Only by maintaining more perfect physical health will it be more conducive to our cold resistance and health care in the following winter.
