It’s been a while and no updates to this post. Anyone get any answers to what this is and how to treat it?
I believe this skin issue started after I used a steel callous exfoliator.
Any update I have the same problem
I have the same problem, it’s literally crippling my life.
I have the same thing! On big toe, pinky toe and heels. It’s on the outside parts for me:/
This is fungus on the feet and or hands. The area turns white because the fungus itself already has moisture in it, so when it gets wet it turns white. To get rid of this clear up the candida/fungus inside of your body (no sugar, no dairy, no gluten diet), and watch the problem disappear. Also, you can soak your feet in a solution of white or apple cider vinegar and warm water each day and rub off the white part with a callous remover. This will help temporarily, but it will come back if the problem is internal fungus (which it is). Good luck!
any updates? I also have this problem.
So my hypothesis:
- This may be stress induced
- This may be related to use of certain computer mousepads or other daily used gloves or material
- This may be water quality related, most of the US has crappy heavy crap in its water that remains residually in there even after all the filteration and cleanup they claim to do.
oh and good luck with a solution, nobody gives a flying melinda in the US healthcare community, they are just after getting super rich, almost all of them. Doctors do not have more than 10 mins for you, at best they will use a magnifier, and then guess-diagnose ya with eczema, then prescribe all kinds of stuff you can supposedly only get at the compound pharmacy downstairs at a good price, and nobody in 3 decades will even think of exploring this further or spending money to research it.
This is the sad reality of our healthcare system which cannot be fixed by any one president or party... lack of any bleeping incentive to find cures, to research on such mundane low level skin irritation. just live with it and deal with it and thats that.
no idea and im still fighting with it. i have found that using creams with acid in them like wart removers help to a degree... nothing else seems to help. all the doctors etc cant seem to get it through their heads its not a callous... and if it is it doesnt cut, shave, or pumice away and it comes back... its also not from being wet because i have gone weeks barefoot with no shoes and there is no change.
Yes I would like to know too as I have the same thing. - help! What is this???
did you ever get this figured out? i have the same thing!
its more an issue with the way that area turns white. its not the whole heel of the foot its just a patch around the side. Not sure if its because there still is some callused skin there or if its just what damaged skin does when wet and I need to let it be for some time. Like i said before I have shaved so much there that it has caused bleeding. So I cant imagine there is more callused skin there.
Hello,
For calluses,pls apply lots of moisturing lotion and vit E. Place protective covering or bandages over the sore to decrease friction on the skin until the sore heals. Rub sandpaper disks or pumice stone over hard thickened regions. Soak feet or hands in warm soapy water to soften calluses.Then rub with a pumice stone and apply some moisturizer.
If still the calluses persist,then pls go in for removal by surgical means or with keratolytic agents (medicines that break up hardened areas of skin). Shaving or cutting off the hardened area on the skin by a doctor is also helpful.
Hope it helps.Take care and pls do keep me posted on how you are doing or if you have any additional queries.Warm regards.
More to the field of podiatrist.However may be to do with your arch of foot,or other foot morphology,footwear problems.