How to take care of your feet

Winter is the peak season for peripheral vascular disease. Special attention should be paid in winter and treatment should be sought as early as possible to prevent further deterioration of the disease. So what should patients with phlebitis pay attention to and care for their feet in daily life? When caring for the affected limb, attention should be paid to keeping it warm and preventing the feet from being washed with cold water. Of course, there is more to pay attention to, there are also many small care methods. If you find any problems, go to the hospital immediately. Let's learn how to take care of your feet.

1. Preparation: A foot bath tub, essential oils, and hot water can quickly promote blood circulation in the feet, consume excess calories, relieve foot pressure, and accelerate detoxification in just fifteen minutes. Tips: Before soaking your feet, you may want to drink a cup of warm water or hot tea. The water temperature should be 38-41°C. The water should be about one fist above the ankle. During the foot bath, you can push and rub your feet against each other. Tips: Mugwort can warm the body, red wine can accelerate blood circulation and speed up detoxification, peppermint essential oil can effectively relieve fatigue, and rose essential oil has a whitening effect. Just 1 or 2 drops of essential oil at a time.

2. Exfoliating feet. Preparation: Exfoliating cream, foot file. After soaking in hot water, the stratum corneum has become very soft. This is the best time to exfoliate the feet. Use foot exfoliating cream and rub it on the skin for about 5 minutes to remove old skin. If your feet are dry, you may want to add 1-2 drops of moisturizing essential oil to the cuticle cream to moisturize your feet. Tips: If you have never removed dead skin or calluses, use a foot file to rub off the softened cuticles before exfoliating. Tips: Make your own foot scrub: Mix equal amounts of brown sugar and honey with 1-2 drops of essential oil to remove dead skin.

3. Moisturize your calves. Preparation: highly moisturizing body lotion, skin care oil, and plastic wrap. The skin on your calves is often neglected. You could be lazy about it before, but now you can’t. After applying body lotion, wrap the calf skin with transparent plastic wrap, keep it for five minutes, then tear off the plastic wrap and massage the feet and legs from bottom to top. Tip: The calves are very dry, so adding a little skin care oil to the body lotion can improve the moisturizing effect. Tips: Pressing the acupoints on the legs and feet more often can help lymphatic detoxification.

4. Nail care. Preparation: foot lotion, nail nourishing oil. After a winter, the toenails lose a lot of nutrients. Moisturizing the feet and toes cannot be neglected, and nail nourishing oil should be applied. Tip: In addition to brush-type products, roller-type foot oil is more convenient to use. You can easily moisturize each toe by rolling the ball. Tips: Nails are well-nourished so they are not prone to dryness and breakage.

5. Nourish and moisturize feet. Preparation: hot towel, foot cream. After applying foot cream, wrap your feet in a hot towel to keep them warm, making it easier for nutrients to be absorbed. Tips: If your heels are cracked, you can first apply foot cream, then stick them with non-woven paper film, put on pure cotton socks, wait for twenty minutes, or go to sleep directly for more effective results. If the cracks are severe, change the foot cream to a chapped cream. Tips: Heels that are dry for a long time and have never been exfoliated are prone to cracking because the stratum corneum is too thick. To improve this situation, you need to apply foot lotion every day and do a foot SPA once a week.

The above is a brief introduction on how to care for your feet. Before putting on shoes, you should check whether there are any foreign objects in the shoes, do not walk barefoot, and wear protective socks at night. In summer, prevent mosquito bites. When your skin is itchy, you can use antipruritic agents but never scratch with your hands. It is appropriate to use warm water (around 32°C) for washing feet to prevent burns. Foot care is also very important. We must pay attention to our own maintenance.