I recently moved to Florida and off came the shoes and on went an old pair of sandals. I love the outdoors, – walking on the beach but within a couple of weeks the skin on the back of my heels started to split. It was painful!
There were two things here – One, I had to quickly do something about the open split and figure out how it was happening. Well, three things, I had to get it to heal up as well. And make sure it did not happen again I guess thats four.
So, the first thing I did was to put some lotion on my foot. The lotion I used has honey and aloe vera amongst other things. It is called Thentix A Touch of Honey. The anti bacterial properties of these two ingredients and some others helped to prevent infection. The next thing I had to do was somehow close and protect the fissure or split. This is not easy on feet. Band-aids dont work. They wont stick to the skin on the heel. Ive done some research on different kinds of glues and from this I know there are medical superglues that are used for suturing. There are certain types of cyanoacrylate* (*the technical term for super glue type glues) that are used for this. Well, I didnt have one of those...