I have had good luck using any of the crams that are sold for athletes foot, with a occasional dab of neosporin, or any triple antibiotic
I have very dry skin and excema. Someone told me to take Evening Primrose Oil pills years ago. I do it whenever this starts and it really helps. I suppose fish oil would do the same. I also use the gloves at night once I do get cracks. They hold the medicine on better.
Super glue. And to prevent, I use Eucerin cream for extra dry skin ( it has an acid in it) and a bit of hydrocortisone if they’re getting bad. Something with urea can also work.
May need to exfoliate, use aquaphor and some sort of glove on the each night if very bad but I’ve not ever needed to resort to the gloves,yet.
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Working Hands Cream. It’s made for hands that crack and bleed.[/QUOTE]
YES! love this stuff! I keep one in my purse, one in my car, and one at home.
haven’t read all replies, but bottom line is to keep it covered with some emmolient all day, all night. And super glue is a miracle. Way better than the overpriced pharmaceutical-aisle crap like Liquid Bandage. Stings for a moment but then RELIEF.
I get deep cracks all the time, and while a more exotic solution is attractive, it truly, truly works to just keep it moisturized all day and all night. What causes it is dryness–the flesh exposed by the crack dries out, and it shrinks/pulls apart. Crack gets deeper and ever-more painful. So, oxygen exposure is your enemy.
I use Protec E. It is an ultra healing cream and it is less than $10.00 for a tub. I don’t know if you can get that over there.
The other thing is to take fish oil or krill oil. That will help you from the inside out.
I posted this before but it disappeared, so forgive me if I am repetitive. All the advice is good, but also think of feeding the skin from the inside too. I take Evening Primrose Oil pills when this starts. It seems to really help. When I do get cracks I wear gloves to bed to keep medicine on. I find those saran wrap type (like you get in hair color kits) to work better than latex or cotton.
When you file your nails, file them straight across instead of rounded corners. I used to get bad cracks when I rounded them, and now I file them straight across and it has eliminated them. I also moisturize daily and if I do get a crack (rarely) I use Bag Balm and its gone in a day or so. Wear gloves if you use dishwashing liquid to do dishes, etc also.
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That would be a pretty good addition to a horsey gift basket. Butt paste, monkey butt powder, and Tired Old Ass soak, along with some hand cream, travel bottles of aspirin or tylenol, and chocolate![/QUOTE]
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Add a bottle of Baileys and I think I have Christmas shopping done for all my hardworking horse friends!
Lidl’s Cien SOS hand cream! A-MAZ-ING!!! It has cleared my cracked thumbs. I would sing it from the mountain top i am soooo relieved and eanted to share it with all my fellow suffterers. Yippee!
This. Bag Balm is damn near magic when it comes to dry, cracked skin.
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Vitamin B (orally)
This thread is 3 years old. I’ve been called lots of things, but never a suffterer. Yippee!
