Treatment of cracks between fingers

From the cracks that have arisen, you need to get rid of and as quickly as possible. What to do in this case? First of all, exclude provoking factors - water, contacts with detergents, cold air, in short - take care of your hands.

In the presence of painful and deep cracks as a first aid, it is recommended to fix their edges with medical glue BF-6 on the basis of phenol-formaldehyde resin and rosin. The adhesive has wound healing and bactericidal action, and the film created by it, sufficiently elastic and resistant to mechanical and chemical factors, reliably protects wounds from secondary infection.

The glue can be used starting from the age of one year. The skin before application should be clean and dry. Glue a thin layer of plaster on the crack from edge to edge and allow to dry for about five minutes. The adhesive layer thus applied is held on the skin, according to the instructions, from two to three days. During the first week of another treatment, cracks are not required. Unshielded, but dry areas of the hand can be lubricated with a nutritious hand cream.

A week later, you can use hand creams, masks, baths and alternative means on the entire surface of the hands.

For treatment of damages, you can use the following ointments, creams from cracks between the fingers of hands with a healing effect:

1. Ointment Apilak on the basis of royal jelly (product of the secretion of glands of worker bees). It is a biostimulator of metabolic processes - it accelerates metabolism and blood supply in the epidermis, which promotes cellular renewal and restoration of skin integrity. It is not recommended for persons sensitized to bee products. It can be used to treat patients from the age of two. Pregnancy is not a contraindication for the use of ointment. The ranks are treated once or twice a day.
2. Bepanten and other preparations based on dexpanthenol, which is absorbed into the skin, is converted to vitamin B5 or pantothenic acid, without which the processes of cellular metabolism do not fully pass. The regeneration of the skin and the strength of its collagen fibers are accelerated. Can be used from birth. The only contraindication to use is the individual sensitivity to the ingredients of the ointment. It can be applied several times a day to clean and dry areas of fingers with cracks.
3. Solcoseryl - gel (ointment) based on protein-free extract of young cattle blood. It is an activator of granulation processes, since it stimulates cellular respiration and nutrition at the site of application. Slightly calms the pain. There were no contraindications and side effects. It is applied twice a day, ointment - on dry wounds, gel - on bleeding.
4. Combined Ointment Methyluracil with miramistin is a combination of an exchange stimulant with a cationic antiseptic. Ointment has not only regenerating, but also analgesic and anti-inflammatory action. Effective in poorly healing cracks. It is not used in patients with leukemias, neoplasms of lymphoid tissue and spinal cord. It is contraindicated in patients who are sensitized to the ingredients. May cause flushing, itching and other reactions at the site of application. Cracks are processed once a day.
5. Festering cracks on the fingers can be treated with Levomekol ointment, which is a combination of the metabolic stimulator Metryluracil with the antibiotic Chloramphenicol, which is active against most pyogenic bacteria. The ointment also has an anti-inflammatory effect. It is not used for mycosis, psoriasis, eczema. It is indicated to patients from the age of three, pregnant and lactating women can be used only under strict medical conditions. Long-term treatment (more than four days) with this ointment is not practiced, since it can damage healthy cells of surrounding tissues.
6. In light cases not neglected, with small cracks, cosmetic hand creams with healing effect are sufficient: the Green Pharmacy brand is sea-buckthorn, with celandine and lime color, Velvet handles with sea buckthorn oil, liquid hand cream of Amalgam Lux LLC (also known as Nikolaevsky PKK "Scarlet Sails").
7. Antiseptic cream "Boro-plus" helps with contact dermatitis, heals cracks in the skin, relieves irritation, prevents infection and can cope with the attached fungal and bacterial infection in an easy degree.
8. Veterinary cream of the Russian production "Zorka", judging by the reviews, heals the cracks well and cope with the dryness of the hands. It is recommended even by patients suffering from psoriasis. The cream is produced on a natural basis, plant basis. Among its components - floralazine (extracted mushroom mycelium), enzymes that promote the strengthening of collagen fibers, fatty acids.

When choosing creams for the treatment of cracked dry skin between fingers, one should pay attention to their composition and give preference to products containing sea-buckthorn, olive, chamomile, almond, carrot oil; Extracts of propolis, chamomile, plantain, grape seed; vitamins from cracks between the fingers of hands - A, B5 (pantothenic acid), E, F.

Special agents used in fungal diseases, atopic dermatitis, allergic reactions, psoriasis, eczema, are prescribed by a doctor after an accurate diagnosis.

Depending on the causes that caused skin cracking on the fingers, the doctor can prescribe a physiotherapy treatment that successfully cures allergic diseases, psoriasis, eczema, atopic dermatitis.

Alternative treatment

For the treatment of cracks on the fingers, prescriptions for alternative medicine can be used.

The masks for hands made of mashed potatoes with milk have a soothing and healing effect: boil the potatoes and make a mashed potatoes on milk of this consistency, so that it is held on hands. Smear a warm, but not hot mashed your hand or finger, cover the food film. To sustain a third of an hour. Wash off and spread with a moisturizer.

Yolk cream: grind one egg yolk with vegetable oil and vinegar (on a tablespoon). Spread this mixture overnight with hands completely and put cotton gloves on them. If the procedure is not done before bedtime, the mixture should remain on hands for at least an hour. Keep the cream in the fridge for no more than five days. Then make a new portion.

Compresses with cedar oil are applied to the cracks on the fingers for 15-20 minutes. If the crack on one finger is small - drop oil onto the cotton pad and hold it on the crack. If the whole brush is in small cracks, you can moisten the napkin in oil and wrap your hand.

The yolk of one chicken egg is triturated with the juice of one lemon and a glass of sour cream. This mixture is smeared with hands, wrapped with a napkin and food film, covered with a blanket, a towel or a scarf. The compress is done 15-20 minutes.

Herbal treatment can be effective at cracking between the fingers. Used different herbs, more often - celandine, chamomile, burdock.

In the infusion of medicinal chamomile is recommended several times a day to hold hands for about ten minutes. Such baths are well combined with compresses, for example, from mashed potatoes.

With celandine, you can make a hand cream: pour a handful of chopped celandine into an enamel pot, pour the grass with a glass of sunflower oil and bring it all to a boil. Remove, cool and add a piece of beeswax about 4 × 4 × 1 cm in size. Put on a small fire and heat, stirring constantly until the wax becomes liquid.

Do not forget about a full vitaminized diet. Coping with cracks on the fingers in just 4-5 days helps with this advice: eat one or two fresh bulbs during the day, whatever - in salads, just with bread, a snack with soup.

Homeopathy

You can treat cracks between the fingers, and any etiology, homeopathic drugs. To do this, you need to see a doctor-homeopath. The arsenal of drugs used to eliminate such pathology is very large, therefore, an expert in this field can only choose an effective drug that takes into account the features of manifestations, localizations, concomitant diseases and traits of the patient's character.

One of the main drugs prescribed for cracks in the skin in homeopathy is Sarsaparilla. This drug is prescribed for cracks between the fingers and toes, as well as to patients with dry, rough cracked heels.

Moorish reed (Arundo) is prescribed for patients who not only have fingers cracking, but also heels, while sweating and swelling of the legs.

When cracks on the skin after working with water or appearing in the cold season, Carbon dioxide (Calcarea carbonica) is prescribed.

For the treatment of cracks in the palms, calcium fluoride (Calcarea fluorica) or Oleander (Oleander) is applied, on the back of the brushes with coarse and thick dry skin - the Canadian sunshine (Cistus canadensis) or Sepia (Sapia), on the fingertips with brittle and deformed nails - Graphites.

Table salt (Natrium muriaticum) can help with cracks at the fingertips and around the nails of patients who prefer salty foods.

With eczema with cracks the water of the Saniculus source helps, with bleeding cracks - Nitricum acidum or Petroleum.

In homeopathy for treatment of cracks on the hands, external means - ointments based on Vaseline with Graphite or Sulum - are used.

Official medicine uses homeopathic medicines manufactured by the pharmaceutical industry. Multicomponent drugs-stimulators of metabolic processes and tissue respiration - Ubihinon and Coenzyme compositum - can be included in the treatment regimen, with inflammatory, allergic, fungal skin lesions to restore its functions - Kutis compositum, Psorinocheel, Schwef-Heel. Homeopathic medicines and their combinations should be prescribed by a doctor who is familiar with the specifics of their action.