Foot ailments can be your first sign of more serious medical problems! Your feet mirrow your general health, as we all know it is important to take care of our feet as we do any other part of our body - for great health!
Foot Care Facts:
* 52 bones in your feet make up 1/4 of all the bones in your body.
* Calculations - American Podiatrie Medical Assoc. says the average person takes 8,000 to 10,000 steps a day - 115,000 miles in a lifetime.
* Approx. 250,000 sweat glands in a pair of feet, they excrete as much as half a pint of moisture a day.
* Women have about 4 times as many foot problems as men.
* Skin on the soles of your feet do not have any oil glands to soften them.
Do's for your feet:
- Soothe and relax your feet
- On dry feet - Use moisturizers - Anti-fungal, anti-bacterial
- On moist perspiring feet - Keep cool and dry - Use a light foot lotion
- Assist chapped and scaly heels - Use exfoliation and moisturize
- Foot baths (soaks) - Then foot massage
- Foot abrasion scrub - Assists in drying, cracking and infection
- Use of proper deodorizers - Anti-fungal, anti-microbial, anti-bacterial
