How to treat calluses?

Please tell me why calluses constantly appear, because we don’t walk barefoot on the ground?

Anna, Moscow

Irina Samorodskaya, Doctor of Medical Sciences, Chief Researcher of the Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery named after. A. N. Bakuleva RAMS:

– A wet callus is formed as a result of acute trauma to an area of ​​skin, for example, from uncomfortable shoes; such a callus is characterized by the presence of fluid under the damaged layer of skin. Dry callus forms due to long-term, repeated damage to the skin and appears as dead skin layers, usually on the toes and soles of the feet.

Asymmetry of calluses indicates a greater load on one of the feet; the reason should be clarified at an appointment with an orthopedic traumatologist.

If you are putting on new shoes, stock up on a patch in advance - not a callus patch, which is intended for dry calluses, but with a bactericidal pad. And if you feel that your shoes are starting to rub your skin, use it immediately without waiting for a callus to appear.

To treat dry calluses, keratolytic preparations are used, the use of which softens the callus tissue, which allows it to be eliminated using manicure (pedicure) tools.