Remove the corn

Remove a corn oil yourself: recommendations

Many patients prefer to treat their own corn. However, this is risky because it is associated with serious sequelae. Depending on the type, depth and extent of the chicken eye, the following recommendations apply:

• Small, flat corns you can try to remove yourself. If this does not succeed or the corn-eye comes again and again (recurrence), the physician must be looked up.
• In principle, you should always go to a specialist if you want to remove large corns or go deep into the skin corns.
• Diabetics, rheumatic patients and people with extremely sensitive or porous skin should always consult a doctor for any foot problems.

Often patients with knives or other objects want to remove their corn. This is very dangerous as the surrounding skin is easily injured. In addition, a cracked, cut-up corn is a potential entry point for germs and bacteria. It can lead to bad infections. The pathogen can spread under the skin or enter the bloodstream and cause blood poisoning (sepsis). People with very dry and chapped skin such as rheumatism and diabetes patients are particularly at risk here. In any case, they should consult the doctor to have a corn-eye removed.

Remove corns with corn patches

First, take a warm foot bath to soften the skin around the chicken’s eye. Then glue a corn patch for two to three days before taking another softening foot bath. Then you can try to carefully lift the corn.

Corn patches are available for free sale in the pharmacy. They are soaked in so-called keratolytics – acids like salicylic acid or lactic acid, which soften the cornea’s cornea. This will remove the upper cornified layers on the corn. Often, however, the keratin core is already so deep that the chemicals do not reach it. Then a specialist has to remove the corn.

Attention: The acids of the corn patches are very aggressive. If a corn patch slips, and the acids no longer get on the corn, but on the surrounding healthy and especially much thinner skin, often resulting in injury and infection.

Remove corns with liquid corns

Instead of a corn patches can sometimes be removed with a liquid corrosive agent from the pharmacy a corn. First cream the skin around the corn with Vaseline to cover it and protect it from the harsh remedy. Then you apply the agent directly on the corn and then covers this with a tack or pressure protection plaster. The whole thing is repeated daily. As with the corn patches, you should make a softening foot bath after two to three days and then carefully lift the corn. In some cases it may be necessary to repeat the application.

Home remedies for corns

Often people with a corn-eye look for home remedies, with the help of which they can easily and gently eliminate the foot problem. Some examples:

• You can enrich the foot bath, for example, with curd soap or tea tree oil; this helps soften the skin.
• You can apply propolis tincture to the corn and let it work for a few hours. After that, the horny skin is soft and can be easily removed.
• Another home remedy prescribes mincing five aspirin tablets in a mortar, mixing with half a teaspoon of lemon juice and a teaspoon of water and rubbing on the corn. The foot is then wrapped in a warm towel. The whole thing can be a quarter of an hour act. Even then, the skin has swollen over the corn. So you can easily remove the corn.

Important for all home remedies is: They can be effective at most on small corns effective. When removing a coronet, be careful not to open an open wound, as it may easily ignite.

Remove corn oil from a specialist

If you want to permanently remove a corn-eye, you have to go to a specialist. Doctors, orthopedists or medical podiatrists can quickly and almost painlessly remove a corn.

The earlier the professional treatment is tackled, the easier and faster it will be. Therefore, seek medical attention as soon as you spot the corn-eye! If you delay the transition to becoming a specialist and continue exposing the corneal to pressure and friction, the core drills ever deeper into the skin.

During the examination, the doctor will decide on the depth and shape of the chicken’s eye as he removes it. Sometimes a single appointment is sufficient, in other cases, the coronary treatment extends over several appointments.

First, a ten to twenty minute footbath on in hot water to soften the cornea. Afterwards, the doctor carefully removes the superfluous corneal layers using a suitable instrument (such as a milling cutter or scalpel). In order to remove the keratin mandrel, some hydrogen peroxide is sprayed on, which also penetrates into deeper skin layers and softens them. The corneal core is then removed with a scalpel, chisel or pliers. This treatment is usually painless.

After the corns treatment

After removal of corns, the site should be protected from pressure and friction. For this purpose foam rings (rings of corns) can be placed over the affected area. Also foam inserts for the shoes or soft socks mean a pressure relief.

To avoid a recurring corn (recurrence), you must first of all remove the cause of your corn. If too tight or uncomfortable shoes are the reason, you should change your footwear. Foot deformities such as hallux valgus or hammer toe can be helped by orthopedic insoles, orthopedic shoes or other orthopedic aids (orthotics) to protect the affected areas. Let the orthopedist advise you.

Patients with very rough and chapped skin should always pay attention to careful foot care. Regular washing and creaming can prevent excessive stress and avoid corns!

Remove corn-eye: surgery

In some cases, surgery is needed to remove a corn. This is the case, for example, when the corneal cone is particularly deep or the cornea is extended very far.

Even with a foot or toe misalignment, a surgical procedure may be useful. Otherwise the corn-eye will come again and again.

Risks when removing coronet

When specialists remove the corn and the patient follows their instructions (such as aftercare), there are usually no complications.

Risks arise especially if you want to remove a corn. If it comes to skin injuries, infections and even septicemia (sepsis) may result. In addition, you can slip off with the knife or scalpel and inflict a deep wound.

The use of corn patches and liquid corrosives also poses risks as mentioned above.

In rare cases, the supposed corn-eye is actually a wart or the symptom of another skin disease. Therefore, for safety’s sake always go to a doctor before you personally remove a corn-eye!