14 things that say your feet on your health.

Examine your feet is very informative on your state of health.

Two, they contain a quarter of your bones, and each has 33 joints, 100 tendons, muscles, ligaments, and countless nerves and blood vessels connected to the heart, the spinal cord and brain.

Let a problem to settle on your feet can have unexpected consequences, for example make you gain weight because you're less, or cause pain because you adopt a posture that is not natural to you. You also increase your risk of falls and fractures.

It should be taken seriously following signals that your feet can send you:

Painful feet

I'm not here talking about pain than that, wearing rubber boots, a market 100 km on a paved road. No, it is rather sedentary women of 55 years complaining of recurring pain in the feet.

Because the feet are so many small bones, you can suffer without knowing the foot fractures due to fatigue. These "discrete" fractures do not necessarily noted and can be discovered only after several months! A stoic person despite the pain is able to walk with a broken foot bone.

If this type of fracture is repeated frequently in a person, it is the sign of a decline in bone density (osteopenia). This is a typical problem in women over 50 years.

In other cases, these fractures repeatedly betrays a vitamin D deficiency, a difficulty to absorb the calcium or anorexia.
 
Loss of hair on your toes

Hair disappear in poor blood circulation, which often arises from a vascular disease. In this case, arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arterial walls) prevent the heart to properly irrigate the ends of the members. The body then focuses on irrigation of vital parts. You understand it: feet hair do not have priority.

Other signs betray a bad blood circulation in the feet: tatez your pulse on the top of your foot and you feel nothing. When you keep standing, your foot is a colour Scarlet red and shiny. The lift and it becomes immediately white. Most of the time, people already know they have with cardiovascular (heart disease, carotid artery) but they have not yet found the effects.

To improve your movement on blood, needless to say, it is imperative to treat the cardiovascular problems initially. In regards to the hair on your toes, they reject, but is not the most important undoubtedly.
Dry skin and that peeling

Even if the skin of your hands and your face is perfect, do not neglect the skin of your feet. Fungal infections and fungal infections are not the privilege of Olympic champions.

Dry, irritated skin can then be which blistered. Then, when the blisters percent and skin peeling, the infection spreads. Fungal infections occur primarily between the toes and can then spread to other parts of the body where it is likely scratching, such as the armpits or the entre-jambes.

Mild cases can be treated simply: frequently wash your feet and be sure to properly dry. Make the bathroom of foot of cold water in which you add the baking soda and water oxygenated, which kill fungi. Then, keep your feet dry by using talcum powder in your socks and shoes. If you see no improvement after two weeks, ask your doctor to prescribe an oral antifungal treatment or local.

Feet curved like a spoon nail

This particular deformation of the nails often betrays a serious deficiency of iron (anemia). Consequence of this lack of iron, the blood contains little hemoglobin, an iron-rich protein that carries oxygen through the body. It tends to Miss railway for internal bleeding (for example an ulcer), or heavy menstruation.

If you are anemic, you will notice that your feet are often cold, that nails can be brittle and the underside of the nails of feet and hands is particularly pale. Often, the anemia is accompanied by dizziness, headaches, intense fatigue and a short breath.

An analysis of red blood cells will identify the origin of the anemia. Just generally slightly amend its plan and make a cure of iron and vitamin C in food supplements. Note that vitamin C helps to set the iron.

Toes boursouffles at the ends

If the tip of the toes is abnormally swollen to fingernails are beginning to look like magnifying glasses, it's a case ofclubbing, the name of Hippocrates, who described this phenomenon more than 2000 years ago. It is a sign of lung diseasesuch as lung cancer, gastrointestinal, such as Crohn's disease or heart diseases.

The phenomenon of of Hippocratisme digital was observed also on some toes which take the form of drumsticks.

Cramps in the feet

This violent contraction of a muscle takes you suddenly such a blow of dagger. Usually, it comes during intense exercise or when you are dehydrated.

However, cramps you are frequently, if you lack calcium, potassium or magnesium. Then, eat more vegetables, drink water Contrex or Hepar (rich in minerals), and before go to bed you, stretch your feet well.

Icy feet

Especially women who suffer "the ice feet syndrome" - to the chagrin of their spouse. In women over 40 years, cold feet are related to a thyroid problem, this gland that regulates the temperature and metabolism of the body. It can also be a bad blood circulation.

Medications exist for thyroid problems. That said, the most effective cure for cold feet is the good pair eve of wool socks. I hear already the same above mentioned spouses argued that the socks are also the best cure for love.

Unfortunately, in cold feet, it seems that there is not cure that is efficient and sexy.

Old shoes

Attention! Your health is in danger if your shoes have more than one pair of years or your baskets have more than 500 km to the meter.

Experts insist that old shoes bring more to the foot support. Result: pain in the heels, blisters and onions accumulate. And in this case, you have a chance on two that your shoes are in question.

These problems primarily affect elderly people attach to their shoe always, which appear to be still fresh from the outside but lack flexibility, support or maintenance.

Disgusting feet nail

If your nails of feet thicken, then become ugly and yellow, it is probably a fungal infection under the nail called Onychomycosis. It can settle and develop over several years without that your fingernails change appearance or you feel pain. At the following stage, your fingernails are beginning to become yellow and black and have a foul odour. At this advanced stage, the infection can even spread to the other toes as well as the hands.

Vulnerable to this type of infection are those with candidiasis, diabetes, autoimmune diseases (such as rheumatoid arthritis) or circulation disorders. In severe cases, antifungal products without prescription have little chance to overcome the infection.

Your big toe takes alarming speeds?

Think of the drop! This disease, which seems to belong to another era continues to crack down without that determine its origin. Also note that it is not reserved for older men.

Imagine a morning, you wake up with a hot pain in the big toe. You clear your sheets to inspect it in the light and you discover that it is red purplish. In three-quarters of the cases, the drop moved in this way, without warning.

Gout is a form of osteoarthritis resulting from excess uric acid, a natural substance. At low temperature, uric acid forms needle-shaped crystals that settled in the joints. The big toe is the coldest part of the body because the farthest from the heart, making it a region conducive to the formation of these crystals. This is why gout attacks first to your big toe.

Subsequently, this disease can spread to routinely to the heel of Achilles, knee and elbow.

Ugh! What smell!

The smell that can release the foot may appear alarming, it is rare that it indicates that something is going wrong, outside of a simple problem of hygiene.

Each foot has 250 million of glands which produce sweat. This is why the foot sweat more than any other part of the body. Add to that the socks and shoes that envelop them carefully. In the end, you get a real pressure cooker where moisture exceeds that of the Turkish baths and where bacteria thrive faster than an old piece of roquefort. After that, don't be surprised more to have feet that feel the cheese!

A Council: choose natural materials such as cotton, all changed socks days, and leather sole shoes better draining moisture than synthetic materials.

Tricolour foot fingers

In cold weather, the Raynaud disease has the effect of changing the color of your toes. They first become white, then blue, then red before resuming their natural colour. The mechanism is still poorly understood, but it is related to the blood vessels of the toes that contract temporarily, inducing a change in hue. Another consequence is that the toes are numb and icy. The same phenomena occur on the fingers, lips, nose and ear lobes.

The Raynaud Disease particularly affects women, the inhabitants of cold countries and highly stressed people. Some treatments are able to mitigate its effects by dilating the blood vessels.

Numb feet

Do not feel his feet or have ants in the feet are the signs that your nervous system in this region is damaged. There may be several causes, including diabetes, chemotherapy or the excess of alcohol (present or past).

Burning or tingling sensations can also occur in the hands winning the arms or legs. The loss of sensitivity gives the impression of wearing heavy gloves or socks in thick wool permanently.

A doctor will help you identify the cause of your loss of sensitivity. Unfortunately, pain drugs will probably be the only solution that it will have to offer you.

A wound that does not heal

It is a symptom of diabetes. The increase in the rate of blood sugar induced damage on the nerve cells of the foot, which means that you lose sensitivity. Irritation, scratches and nicks in the foot unnoticed then, especially if diabetes has not yet been diagnosed. If it heals not the injury, it can become infected and lead to amputation.

Attention therefore the wounds oozing and smelly, because they report the injury struggles to heal. And if you are diabetic, be sure to inspect the soles of your feet every day!