No. Corns are a common clinical condition that tends to appear on the forefoot or lateral position of the toes, mainly due to athletic extrusion, and often have obvious tenderness, pressure and other symptoms. Corns are yellow or gray-yellow in appearance, with a clearer range of keratosclerotic plaques, which will bring obvious inconvenience to the patient's life. The incidence of corns is higher in middle-aged and elderly people. It also occurs in young women due to improper footwear, and it is recommended to improve footwear habits.

What does corns look like

Symptoms of corns

Typical damage is a well-demarcated yellowish or dark-yellow conical corns, whose tips are embedded in the skin, such as the size of mung beans or fava beans. Flat or slightly elevated skin surface, if you use a knife to cut off the outer layer, there is a hard keratin embolism in the center, surrounded by a ring of transparent yellowish ring in the form of corns. Prevalent on the soles of the feet, metatarsals, the outer edge of the little toes, the dorsum of the toes and other easy friction, extrusion, but is not limited to the site of pressure. Mostly 1 to 2, can also be multiple. Because the tip of the corns is embedded in the stratum corneum in a wedge shape, the tip of the corns compresses the peripheral nerves in the dermis and causes severe pain when standing or walking. The lesions occurring between the 4 to 5 toes, due to sweat impregnation, the surface of the soaked soft, moist, grayish-white soaked soft surface layer, accompanied by a bad smell, commonly found in the case of sweaty feet, wearing airtight rubber shoes, called soft corns.

The treatment of corns

Fifty percent salicylic acid ointment or salicylic acid cotton wool: first according to the size of the damage to the corns will be cut a small mouth of rubber paste, paste around the lesions, used to protect the normal skin, the drug coated on the surface of the lesions, and then covered with rubber paste fixed, every 24 ~ 48h replacement of a time, change the drug before peeling off the skin lesions soaked soft and whitish part until the damage is detached.

Local treatment: first soak the affected area with hot water, peel off the surface keratin hyperplasia part, and may be the center of the keratin plugs carefully peeled off, the corns of the cream against this core part of the paste. Change the dressing once a week, peel off the soaked white part before changing the dressing until the damage comes off.

Surgical excision: generally do not need anesthesia, with a sharp scalpel first at the edge of keratinous hypertrophy along the damage around the parallel direction for a circular incision, with toothed tweezers, and along the green line into the knife, deep into the base of the corns can be dug out, and then bandaged with antiseptic ointment gauze.

Physical therapy: available CO2 laser treatment: local disinfection, local anesthesia and then CO2 laser cauterization. Liquid nitrogen can be used to freeze the affected area, but there is more obvious pain.