Log InFoot Corns - by Editor
What causes corns
Corns are essentially nature's way of protecting your feet, or so nature believes. Just as we develop blisters on our hands after a few days of hard manual labour before the skin on our hands begins to toughen, so also, if any particular part of the foot is under pressure either due to friction or due to uncomfortable footwear, that part will start growing extra skin, to pad the area from the friction or discomfort.When the extra skin is distributed all over the feet, it is called calluses. But when it is limited to one concentrated area, you have what is called a corn.
If corn is just dead skin, why does it hurt
This is because the dead skin is in a concentrated area, and it is formed in the shape of a cone, with the point of the cone digging into your foot.
What if I just ignore the corn
First of all, ignoring the corn will not make it go away. In fact, the problem will only worsen. As more skin keeps growing around the corn, the corn keeps getting pushed deeper and deeper into the skin, which makes it more painful. This will also make removal more difficult.More often than not, you need to take a serious look at your footwear. Invest in the most comfortable footwear you can afford. Cheap footwear is tempting, but they rarely provide adequate support to your feet and are the most common cause for corns.
Remember, your feet bear your entire body weight so if you weigh 60 kg, each foot is constantly carrying around with it 30 kg of weight. Squeeze them into uncomfortable shoes and heels, and all this weight is instantly redistributed unevenly around your feet, leading to foot problems. Feet are built extremely tough, so the very fact that they are crying out for help means that they have been subjected to far too much abuse!
Any home remedies
One of the best home remedies is to soak your feet in warm, salted water for around five to ten minutes. Then apply soap and rub your foot, concentrating on the area around the corn, with a pumice stone, for five minutes. Do this every night, and slowly, the dead skin will soften and come out.It is not recommended that you try and scrape off the skin with a blade, but if you are confident that you would like to try this quick fix, soak your feet in warm water for ten minutes first, to soften the skin. You can then try to scrape off the corn with a blade very gently. If the corn is too deep, you may not be able to get it all out.
Soak a stale piece of bread in vinegar, place it on the corn, and tape it to your foot. Leave it on overnight. This will help soften the corn.
What's the commercial remedy
Apply corn caps on your corns, and within a few days the corns will soften and you will be able to peel them off just like you wax hair. However, these caps contain acid to dissolve the tough skin, so the surrounding skin of your feet may get affected, and get sore and a little tender. To avoid this, you could protect the skin around the corn with cotton before pasting on the corn cap. Skin specialists can also remove corns, so if nothing else works, visit your skin or foot specialist.
Name: Sanjiv Shah
City: Mumbai
Comments: Yes, I had a very painful experince of corn in my left leg. I am using a razer blaze to cut the dead skin. Thanks for the wonderful article on corn.
Name: Tejas Shah
City: India (Mumbai)
Comments: I had a corn 2 years back. I was aroung 18. It was very painfull, but I opted for a small operation, It really worked, It is little painfull but really worth, Doctor just removes (Cuts) the affected part from deep inside, so ther are no changes for it to grow again. But the thing is that now I have got Another corn in Other leg, I guess corns are some genetic problem cause my Dad also has some. ;) But I am trying some solutions like SELECTINE or even THUJA but these are temporary removal methods. NO WAY OUT other than surgery
Name: Amber
City: USA
Comments: I did just as it said- I made a little pedicure, soaked my feet in soapy salty warm water, after 10 minutes i took the foot out which had a corn and began scrubbing it with a pumice stone. well that was one month ago. today, one corn is completely gone and the other is almost gone. there's one problem-they're red now!!! i guess it was because of all the scrubbing. PLEASE tell me how to PROPERLY get rid of corns without making it red! it's not irritating or hurting, its just red now. i don't know what to do!NULL
Name: santosh
City: Kuwait
Comments: I have thick corn in my right leg,it is very painfull some time i can not walk even i am trying the KRACK SR Cream.Lets see if it work out. I will try above mentioned remedie.
Name: Shruti Patel
City: Florida, USA
Comments: I have 2 thick and big corns in both feets from many years but it is not painful at all. It is just hard skin. Please give me a suggetion that how to remove it. Thank you.
Name: junku
City: bham
Comments: omg
Name: Madhavi
City: India (Hyderabad)
Comments: Hello Every one, I dont know if the thing in my foot is a corn or not...let me tell you what exactly had happened...5 or 6 months back, i had a thorn in my foot. so what i did was i took a safety pin and then tried to remove it....some how i felt that it is not gone...then i bought a new blade and tried to cut or scrap a little and tried to remove the thorn...but accidentally i cut it a little deep...blood oozed out...i stoped doing that...I left my leg and continued with my daily routine...without covering my foot with anything (I think dust got stocked in the wound)....when it got heeled, i tried to open it again with a pin.....as it started paining....so this way, opening and heeling happened for 5 to 6 times from past 5 months....then a corn kind of a thing started growing on my foot...but at the center of the corn, a mass of skin had grown which pained even more. when i used corn caps, with a doctor´s suggestion, except for the mass of hard skin at the center of the corn, every thing got removed. after peeling away the hard skin around the mass of skin, it stood out like a small lump....my doctor had cut it away...but it started paining again...and the mass of skin started growing again...please give me a suggestion for this....i am unable to walk...i am scared of surgeries...will they give local anesthesia before cutting it?
Name: Mark Scott
City: London
Comments: I will be in India during December 2006, please tell me where I can have a corn removed by surgery, oh I will be in Bombay
Name: myra sanches
City: mumbai
Comments: O would like to remove my corns. Which doctor should I contact. Please give me the details with address & tel. number of the surgeon.
Name: smitha
City: thrissur
Comments: my son is only 3 years old as we know this time childerns have smooth skin but my son is having cracks in his legs please give me remedies for this
Name: Madhavi
City: asdfasdfasdf
Comments: corn caps help a lot for corns in the foot...try it out
Name: JOYBOY
City: Bangalore
Comments: I am at home right now after a corn extraction. Trust me, CORN CAPS doesnt work!!! YOU MUST GO TO A DERMITOLOGIST SURGEON TO GET IT EXTRACTED. It is a slightly painful procedure, if required they will give you a local anesteshia. It will take 34 days for the cut wound to heal. But I am already relieved after 6 months of pain
Name: dtnhb nbwhl
City: avrewxtz
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Name: xvhs hticxga
City: acktrhz
Comments: wejsfg exvjp jcwfkg amcne ofugvi wxam conqykfej yocujla ikeqfh
Name: Elizabeth
City: New York
Comments: Thankz it really worked.
Name: heena
City: london
Comments: hi ive got two corns on my second and third toe there horrible to look at and i hate wearing sandles ive tried scrapping and plaster the soaking technique (everything) no good my last hope is surgery but i need to find a good one and werer its not so expensive can you help me.
Name: Munna
City: Mumbai
Comments: I got 3 corns in my left leg and one corn in my right leg i used corn caps but it is not at all useful.i just want to know exact reason behind corn formation.
Name: kiran
City: hyderabad
Comments: hi am having 2 corns in eah foot.they r so painful.am unable to walk.i have tried corn caps.what happened to the corns i don´t know but the surrounding skin got peeled off.it´s very ugly to look at als.am not able to understand.i heard of the surgery done to remove corns.can u please let me know where is t done n how much does it cost??is it a painful surgery??how much time does it take to completely heal??
Name: meladie
City: los angeles
Comments: IVE TRIED EVERYTHING n NOTHINGS WORKED. I HAVE 2 BIG CORNS ON EACH FOOT AND THEY LOOK HORRIBLE, I LIVE TEN MINUTES FROM THE BEACH AND ITS DEPRESSING TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR WHY I CANT GO. I CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WORE SANDALS AND I EVEN SLEEP WITH SOCKS ON. IM DESPERATE FOR A SOLUTION. I NEED HELP FINDING A NOT TOO EXPENSIVE SURGEON!!!
Name: vanita gulati
City: chandigarh
Comments: i have many corns on my hands around 12on right hand and 4 on left on fingers. please suggest some home remedy or medicine for it. i tried ´DUOFILM´.
City: Mumbai
Comments: Yes, I had a very painful experince of corn in my left leg. I am using a razer blaze to cut the dead skin. Thanks for the wonderful article on corn.
Name: Tejas Shah
City: India (Mumbai)
Comments: I had a corn 2 years back. I was aroung 18. It was very painfull, but I opted for a small operation, It really worked, It is little painfull but really worth, Doctor just removes (Cuts) the affected part from deep inside, so ther are no changes for it to grow again. But the thing is that now I have got Another corn in Other leg, I guess corns are some genetic problem cause my Dad also has some. ;) But I am trying some solutions like SELECTINE or even THUJA but these are temporary removal methods. NO WAY OUT other than surgery
Name: Amber
City: USA
Comments: I did just as it said- I made a little pedicure, soaked my feet in soapy salty warm water, after 10 minutes i took the foot out which had a corn and began scrubbing it with a pumice stone. well that was one month ago. today, one corn is completely gone and the other is almost gone. there's one problem-they're red now!!! i guess it was because of all the scrubbing. PLEASE tell me how to PROPERLY get rid of corns without making it red! it's not irritating or hurting, its just red now. i don't know what to do!NULL
Name: santosh
City: Kuwait
Comments: I have thick corn in my right leg,it is very painfull some time i can not walk even i am trying the KRACK SR Cream.Lets see if it work out. I will try above mentioned remedie.
Name: Shruti Patel
City: Florida, USA
Comments: I have 2 thick and big corns in both feets from many years but it is not painful at all. It is just hard skin. Please give me a suggetion that how to remove it. Thank you.
Name: junku
City: bham
Comments: omg
Name: Madhavi
City: India (Hyderabad)
Comments: Hello Every one, I dont know if the thing in my foot is a corn or not...let me tell you what exactly had happened...5 or 6 months back, i had a thorn in my foot. so what i did was i took a safety pin and then tried to remove it....some how i felt that it is not gone...then i bought a new blade and tried to cut or scrap a little and tried to remove the thorn...but accidentally i cut it a little deep...blood oozed out...i stoped doing that...I left my leg and continued with my daily routine...without covering my foot with anything (I think dust got stocked in the wound)....when it got heeled, i tried to open it again with a pin.....as it started paining....so this way, opening and heeling happened for 5 to 6 times from past 5 months....then a corn kind of a thing started growing on my foot...but at the center of the corn, a mass of skin had grown which pained even more. when i used corn caps, with a doctor´s suggestion, except for the mass of hard skin at the center of the corn, every thing got removed. after peeling away the hard skin around the mass of skin, it stood out like a small lump....my doctor had cut it away...but it started paining again...and the mass of skin started growing again...please give me a suggestion for this....i am unable to walk...i am scared of surgeries...will they give local anesthesia before cutting it?
Name: Mark Scott
City: London
Comments: I will be in India during December 2006, please tell me where I can have a corn removed by surgery, oh I will be in Bombay
Name: myra sanches
City: mumbai
Comments: O would like to remove my corns. Which doctor should I contact. Please give me the details with address & tel. number of the surgeon.
Name: smitha
City: thrissur
Comments: my son is only 3 years old as we know this time childerns have smooth skin but my son is having cracks in his legs please give me remedies for this
Name: Madhavi
City: asdfasdfasdf
Comments: corn caps help a lot for corns in the foot...try it out
Name: JOYBOY
City: Bangalore
Comments: I am at home right now after a corn extraction. Trust me, CORN CAPS doesnt work!!! YOU MUST GO TO A DERMITOLOGIST SURGEON TO GET IT EXTRACTED. It is a slightly painful procedure, if required they will give you a local anesteshia. It will take 34 days for the cut wound to heal. But I am already relieved after 6 months of pain
Name: dtnhb nbwhl
City: avrewxtz
Comments: hxtalvk mgpx zcgthelom sfaglxke gqsvtherl nfygoem kaqrcjbz
Name: xvhs hticxga
City: acktrhz
Comments: wejsfg exvjp jcwfkg amcne ofugvi wxam conqykfej yocujla ikeqfh
Name: Elizabeth
City: New York
Comments: Thankz it really worked.
Name: heena
City: london
Comments: hi ive got two corns on my second and third toe there horrible to look at and i hate wearing sandles ive tried scrapping and plaster the soaking technique (everything) no good my last hope is surgery but i need to find a good one and werer its not so expensive can you help me.
Name: Munna
City: Mumbai
Comments: I got 3 corns in my left leg and one corn in my right leg i used corn caps but it is not at all useful.i just want to know exact reason behind corn formation.
Name: kiran
City: hyderabad
Comments: hi am having 2 corns in eah foot.they r so painful.am unable to walk.i have tried corn caps.what happened to the corns i don´t know but the surrounding skin got peeled off.it´s very ugly to look at als.am not able to understand.i heard of the surgery done to remove corns.can u please let me know where is t done n how much does it cost??is it a painful surgery??how much time does it take to completely heal??
Name: meladie
City: los angeles
Comments: IVE TRIED EVERYTHING n NOTHINGS WORKED. I HAVE 2 BIG CORNS ON EACH FOOT AND THEY LOOK HORRIBLE, I LIVE TEN MINUTES FROM THE BEACH AND ITS DEPRESSING TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR WHY I CANT GO. I CANT EVEN REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I WORE SANDALS AND I EVEN SLEEP WITH SOCKS ON. IM DESPERATE FOR A SOLUTION. I NEED HELP FINDING A NOT TOO EXPENSIVE SURGEON!!!
Name: vanita gulati
City: chandigarh
Comments: i have many corns on my hands around 12on right hand and 4 on left on fingers. please suggest some home remedy or medicine for it. i tried ´DUOFILM´.
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