Conditions of the skin-Foot

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Calluses-tyloma

Corns and calluses are thick, hardened layers of skin that develop when your skin tries to protect itself against friction and pressure. They most often develop on the feet and toes or hands and fingers.

Eczema

Dermatitis itching, inflammation of the skin

Onychocryptosis

In grow toenail The result is pain, redness, swelling and, sometimes, an infection. Ingrown toenails usually affect your big toe.

Causes of Calluses

Poor fitting shoes, going barefoot, excessive weight distribution

Triggers of Psoriasis

Bacterial or viral infection; strep throat, upper respiratory infection; dry air, dry skin, injury to skin, insects, bites, too little too much sun light

Treatment of Warts

Duct tape

What are the causes of Athlete's foot?

Fungi commonly grow on or in the top layer of human skin. Fungi grow best in warm, moist areas, such as the area between the toes. Athlete's foot is easily spread (contagious) poor hygiene; physical debilitation poor circulation, damp dark conditions, dry, cracked skin

Atopic dematitis

Hereditary itching most common, H of allergic reactions: asthma, hay fever or eczema

Onychogryphosis

Rams' Horn nail - may be caused by trauma or peripheral vascular disease, but most often secondary to self-neglect and failure to cut the nails for extended periods of time. - commonly seen in the elderly.

Symptoms of Athlete's foot

Red itchy skin, blisters, burning, discolored nails, ringworm

Contact dermatitis

Skin is red, swolen, sore after direct contact with substance. Irritant & allergic

What is Athlete's foot?

Tinea-pedis a fungal infection affecting the skin between the toes. It is a form of ringworm.

Causes of fungi

Unsanitary pedicure stations various types of fungi that reside in or on the body candida albicans poor circulation diabetes or other systemic disease athlete's foot weakness in the nail module, cut, wound, repeated injury poorly functioning immune system brittle nails, sand like deposit or debris trapped under the nail; odor

warts

Verucca- is a small, hard, benign growth on the skin, caused by a virus. "a painful wart on her foot" any rounded excrescence on the skin of an animal or the surface of a plant.

Psoriasis

a skin disease marked by red, itchy, scaly patches.

Corn heloma or clavus

is a callus on the toe pressure and friction, result; of malposition of the toe, don't have a root

Fungal toenails -

onychomycosis -bacteria or fungi live in dead tissue of the hair Nail fungus is a common condition that begins as a white or yellow spot under the tip of your fingernail or toenail. As the fungal infection goes deeper, nail fungus may cause your nail to discolor, thicken and crumble at the edge.

Home remedies of Athlete's foot

over the counter anti fungal, foot soak with water & vinegar 20 min, 2x/ day, natural ointments calendula antifungal essential oils: tea tree, lavender, lemongrass, cedar myrth


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