Foot care advice – a few tips

• Try to check your feet regularly (daily if you have Diabetes) to look for any changes.

• Keep the skin dry between your toes to help keep the skin intact.

• Moisturise the skin on your feet (except between your toes) with foot cream or heel balm (this will help keep this area of skin intact). Filing dry or hard skin will also help.

• If you suffer with corns, do what you can to offload pressure by wearing properly fitting shoes, non-medicated corn pads or other padding to minimise pressure and friction.

• If you get corns between your toes, do what you can to keeps toes apart by wearing well-fitting shoes, toe spacers and keeping the area between your toes dry.

• File nails to help prevent them getting too long or uncomfortable, if you or someone else is in your household are able.

• If your nails put pressure on the skin when they get to a certain length, try filing or easing the skin away from the nail. Soaking them or wearing a toe cap might help as well as wearing shoes that do not put pressure on the toes.

• If you do use any devices for your toes/feet remember to remove them at night.

• If you notice signs of infection such as pain, redness, heat, pus etc, try using a warm salted foot soak but seek your GPs advice if this does not solve the problem as you may need antibiotics.

• While you are stuck at home, try exercising your feet while sitting down by wiggling your toes and pointing and lifting your feet (if you are able).

• If you develop foot pain or other changes in your feet, it is important not to ignore them. Diabetes UK www.diabetes.org.uk also has some useful information on looking after your feet.

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2. Please ring the doorbell. There are no waiting facilities so you will be unable to enter the practice until I let you in.
3. Appointments will last 30 minutes leaving 15 minutes after you have left for paperwork, cleaning and airing before the next patient. This will allow time for your treatment whilst minimising the length of contact.
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