Foot Disorders

Question 1

What are the main contributors to foot problems?

Answer 1

Improper footwear, diabetes, and aging.

Question 2

What is another name for Athlete’s foot?

Answer 2

Tinea pedis.

Question 3

What is Athlete’s foot and what are the symptoms?

Answer 3

Fungal infection of the skin usually found between the toes. Symptoms: itching, cracking, blistering, and peeling of the feet.

Question 4

How can Athlete’s foot be treated?

Answer 4

Antifungal treatments.

Question 5

what is a bunion?

Answer 5

Bunions are abnormalities of the feet that cause a bump to develop on the large toe joint.

Question 6

What are the symptoms of diabetic neuropathy?

Answer 6

Numbness, tingling, pain in the feet and loss of sensitiveness.

Question 7

What is plantar fasciitis?

Answer 7

This is the most common cause of heel pain.

Question 8

What is a blister and what is the main cause?

Answer 8

Blisters are raised fluid-filled pockets. Caused by friction between the skin and the inside of a shoe or clothing.

Question 9

What is a corn?

Answer 9

Foot corns are hardened layers of skin that develop from your skin’s response to friction and pressure.

Question 10

How can corns be treated?

Answer 10

File away the corn, apply castor oil, apply corn pads.

Question 11

What is the difference between corns and calluses?

Answer 11

Calluses normally are not painful. Corns can be either hard or soft and may or may not be painful. Corns are smaller than calluses and have a hard center surrounded by inflamed skin.

Question 12

What is the most common way to treat calluses?

Answer 12

Gentle paring with a pumice stone or foot paddle may help reduce the callus if it is enlarged.

Question 13

Define Morton’s neuroma condition:

Answer 13

Is a benign (non-cancerous) enlargement of part of a nerve that typically occurs between the third and fourth toes.

Question 14

What are the symptoms for Morton’s neuroma condition?

Answer 14

Tingling, numbness, burning, shooting pain.

Question 15

Define heel spur and its most common causes:

Answer 15

A heel spur is an outgrowth of calcium that develops between the heel bone and the arch of the foot. Caused by long-term strain on muscles and ligaments, arthritis, excess body weight, and by wearing badly fitted shoes.

Question 16

what is bromhidrosis?

Answer 16

Bomhidrosis is a foul smelling sweat

Question 17

What are plantar warts?

Answer 17

Plantar warts officially named verrucae warts are common warts that affect the bottom of the feet.

Question 18

What are the symptoms of plantar warts? How can you recognize them on the skin?

Answer 18

One of the first symptoms you may notice is pain or tenderness when putting pressure on your foot while walking. Once the wart has formed, you will see a circular flat spot on the skin with a depressed area in the middle. The wart may appear yellowed, with a crust, or even have a black spot in the middle.

Question 19

What are some options to treat plantar warts?

Answer 19

Treatments include salicylic acid cream, a topical cream that can “burn” off the wart, liquid nitrogen which can be used to “freeze” off the wart, curettage which involves cutting out the wart, medicine applied directly to the wart, laser therapy and essential oils.

Question 20

What is a fissure?

Answer 20

• Cracked heels. Cracks or fissures in the skin in the heel area that may cause discomfort or pain and bleeding.

Question 21

How can fissures be treated?

Answer 21

Using professionally designed shoes, avoid open-heeled shoes, applying moisturizing creams and oils, a pumice stone can be used to reduce the thickness of calluses.

Question 22

What is hyperkeratosis?

Answer 22

Hyperkeratosis is a skin condition that occurs when a person’s skin becomes thicker than usual in certain places.

Question 23

Give 5 examples of hyperkeratosis?

Answer 23

Forms of hyperkeratosis include plantar warts, psoriasis, calluses, corns, eczema, epidermolytic hyperkeratosis (inherited skin disorder), lichen planus (a condition that causes white patches to grow on the inside of the mouth) and actinic keratosis or solar keratosis (rough, sandpaper-like patches of skin.

Question 24

Give 6 examples to prevent foot disorders and maintain healthy feet:

Answer 24

good for hygiene ,including washing’s drying .
o Hydrate the skin.
o Buy proper-size shoes.
o Do not ignore foot pain
o Avoid walking barefoot.
o Avoid wearing tight-fitting shoes such as high heels.
o Cut nails properly,always straight across.
o Protect your feet in public areas.
o Avoid sharing footwear.
o Head off sweaty feet
o If you are diabetic, consult your physician regularly for feet examinations.
Reflexology sessions contribute to maintain healthy feet and body.
Exercise and heathy lifestyle