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Cracking of skin between fingers of hands and legs — rather popular phenomenon at adults and children, therefore they address the dermatologist. Many also ask for the help in pharmacies or pharmacies and buy new medicines, which usually do not bring results. Once and for all to be exempted from a problem of cracking of skin between fingers, it is worth establishing its reason correctly. It can be, both the wrong leaving, and many dermatological diseases: allergic eczema, irritation, mycosis of smooth skin, atopic dermatitis or psoriasis.
How does the cracked skin between toes and hands look?
Cracking of skin between fingers can happen under various circumstances. Depending on the reason, your epidermis can peel off on an erythematic basis, with maceration of epidermis, papules or yellow scabs, which indicate a bacterial superinfection. Or you can deal with typical cracks of dry skin with the reinforced epidermis or erythematic plaques covered with scales.
Why does skin between fingers of hands and legs burst?
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One of the most frequent reasons of emergence of cracks on skin between fingers of hands and legs are fungal infections. Mycoses, especially feet — very popular infections. They can be shown eritemy, peeling, and cracking of epidermis between fingers. It often leads to maceration of epidermis.
Mushrooms love the warm damp environment, therefore, athletes are a group of the people more subject to fungal infections. But not only. Mycoses often arise at people with the increased perspiration, the elderly people having the diabetes or chronic diseases reducing immunity. Cutting deprive can also appear after treatment by antibiotics. Sometimes its reasons are trivial, for example, non-compliance with personal hygiene or use of public places, for example, of the pool.
In case of mycosis before treatment, it is worth making swab test on mycologic inspection. Thus, the doctor learns with what fungus he deals, and will choose suitable treatment. In therapy, antifungal medicines of local action, such as izokonazol, terbinafin, klotrimazol and others are used. If skin defeats are aggravated or local treatment is not enough, your doctor can prescribe you oral antifungal tablets. Besides, you can support the treatment and use disinfectants for footwear.
Cracks on the skin between fingers and hands: Contact dermatitis
Cracks on skin of fingers of hands and legs can also be a symptom of contact dermatitis. So-called allergic contact eczema arises when your skin contacts to the substances causing hypersensitivity or, even in low concentration, which can cause in your irritation. Symptoms of contact eczema, besides skin cracking, also include erity, papules or small blisters on skin. Such changes of skin can be called to wear, among other things, jewelry of nickel if you have an allergy to nickel, or you contact to chemicals, for example, when cleaning without gloves.
At treatment of the irritating or allergic contact eczema it is very important to define what substance causes it, and then to avoid contact with it. During aggravation, your doctor can appoint local glucocorticoid medicines and oral antihistaminic medicines. In such situations, it is also worth using appropriate means for washing. It is very important to renew a lipidic barrier of epidermis.
Cracks on the skin between fingers and hands: Psoriasis
The shelled skin between fingers of hands and legs can be a symptom of psoriasis or atopic dermatitis. At psoriasis, the skin defeats often appear on skull skin, in lumbar area, between buttocks, elbows and knees. Nails can be psoriatichesky too. It Psoriazpoyavlyatsya on skin in the form of so-called psoriatichesky plaques with existence of an eritema, infiltration or silvery scales. This genetic and autoimmune disease. Children whose parents have psoriasis can also get sick. Psoriasis can also affect joints and lead to psoriatichesky arthritis. It causes hypostasis and pain in the affected joints. Psoriasis most often treat locally medicines of glucocorticosteroids, salicylic acid and a kaltsipotriol. The general immunosupressivny therapy is often necessary.
Cracks on the skin between fingers and hands: Atopic dermatitis
Sometimes cracking of skin between fingers of hands or legs is a symptom of atopic dermatitis. The skin itch and the flaking erythematic rashes are characteristic of it. They appear, besides hands and legs, in elbow and knee bends or on a nape.
Cracking of skin on fingers of hands: also the reasons — bad leaving and frequent washing!
Remember that cracking of skin between fingers of hands and legs not always designates a dermatological disease! Sometimes cracking of epidermis is connected with wrong leaving. Perhaps, you forget about skin lubricant, too often wash hands with soap or, perhaps, abuse such medicines as salicylic acid or urea in too high concentrations. If you doubt what stands behind skin exfoliation around hands and legs, do not hesitate to go to the dermatologist. He will surely establish the reason and will recommend actions.
