What to do if your fingers crack in winter?

I believe many friends have tried this and found that their fingers cracked in winter. If the weather is dry in winter, the skin is prone to cracking due to lack of moisture. So how to deal with cracked fingers? Let's take a look.

If your hands have cracks in winter, be sure to wash your hands with warm water and apply hand cream (preferably a moisturizing hand cream containing glycerin or vaseline) after washing. This will prevent dry air from damaging your skin. It will be fine if you stick with it for a while.

When hands get cracked in winter, it is sometimes not a problem that can be solved simply by using hand cream from the outside. The body also needs to supplement vitamin E, because a lack of vitamin E in the body can easily cause cracks. Therefore, you can pay attention to supplementing your diet with fruits, vegetables, nuts, and a small amount of protein. In short, the nutrition in your body should be balanced. It is helpful to repair the cracks.

If your hands have cracks in winter, you should drink more water because the dry air makes the human body prone to dehydration both inside and outside the body. Drinking more tea (honey grapefruit tea, pear and red date tea, etc.) are good drinks for moisturizing and hydrating. It is helpful to repair the cracks of the opponent.

My hands get cracked in winter. I looked up information that said from a TCM perspective, cracks are easily caused by insufficient qi and blood supply to the fingers. Therefore, it is necessary to supplement nutrients from the blood and qi (Chinese medicines that replenish qi and blood, such as angelica, astragalus, and wolfberry), which can make the cracked hands heal faster and keep the hands lubricated.

If your hands have cracks in winter, you can do more hand rubbing exercises (rub your hands together or massage your fingers with both hands) without affecting the healing of the cracks to help blood circulation between the fingers and promote the healing of the cracks. It also has a certain effect in preventing hand cracks.