Cracks in the hands, treatment

Women tend to cherish the skin of the hands. The beauty of the fingers and nails raises the mood, increases self-esteem. Sometimes there is a tragedy - a woman discovers painful cracks in her arms. The causes lie in the abnormal dryness of the skin.

• Means of household chemicals with degreasing, bleaching and refreshing effect contain formulas of corrosive substances. Often under their influence, the skin is over-dried. Allergic reactions are observed.
• The epidermis suffers from an insufficient amount of vitamin A and vitamin E in the body. The situation is exacerbated in winter and in the off-season.
• Frosty air destroys the skin of the face and hands.
• The development of fungal infection is possible against a background of vitamin deficiency, hypothermia. You can get infected in the shower room, the pool, the bathroom.
• Cracks in the hands are one of the symptoms of the hormonal imbalance in the body.
• Psoriasis, neurodermatitis can have a complication in the form of excessive dryness of the skin.

Treatment of cracks in the home can begin only if the doctor excludes the possibility of diseases such as psoriasis, hormonal imbalance and neurodermatitis.

Treatment of cracks in the skin of hands at home

1. Treatment with potatoes

• Boil the potatoes in a uniform. In a hot form, skip in the blender, peeling off the peel. Pound the potato paste into a piece of clean cloth. After a slight cooling, so as not to get a burn, wrap a sick hand in a cloth with potatoes. Keep the compress is recommended until it cools. Then remove and wash your hands gently with warm water. Wipe until dry. Apply the cream. To enhance the therapeutic effect in the prepared mass, you can drip a few drops of pharmacy glycerin and as much fresh lemon juice.
• Traditional medicine advises to treat cracks on the palms of the hands of classic mashed potatoes. To get a homogeneous mass of ground potatoes must be diluted with milk. Before immersion in the compress, lubricate the hands with vegetable oil. Then everything is done, as mentioned above.
• The therapeutic effect is on the skin of the hands of a pot of potato broth, which is obtained when cooking potatoes for food. After the broth cools down a little, hands are lowered into it, having pre-greased them with vegetable oil. To enhance the healing effect in the broth dilute conventional starch. Under the prescription take two tablespoons of starch on a half-liter of liquid.

2. Treatment with plant juice

Cracks on the hands heal by the action of aloe juice. Enough to cut along a clean sheet of scarlet, free from thorns, attach to the affected area with a juicy side. Aloe is fixed with a bandage bandage. The therapeutic effect is achieved very quickly.

For the treatment use the juices of other plants that have antiseptic and healing effect. You can squeeze juice of fresh nettle, plantain, yarrow, St. John's wort and apply on cracks. In people just knead the necessary leaf to isolate the juice, and then put on a sick hand.

3. Resin-gum for healing of cracks

Healing healing properties have a sap from the coniferous trees - spruce, cedar, fir, pine. Fry chemist's oil is also suitable for treatment. Having gum, you can prepare at home a cream that heals cracks in your hands. To combine in one vessel the pork fat, natural wax and gum of coniferous tree. Components should be taken in equal proportions. The contents of the vessel to melt or melt. The ointment is ready.

4. Goat based ointment

To heal cracks in your hands, you need to prepare a full tablespoon of goat fat. Add as much chopped onions. Salt (half a tablespoon). All three ingredients must be passed through a blender or hand-grinded in a mortar until a uniform mass is formed. Ointment is put on for a whole day. First, there may be pain, but as the cracks are tightened, it will stop.