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This is what I do, please check with your Dr. Or Ask A Nurse to see if this is suitable for you. I take coconut oil and add tea tree oil and whip it until it is smooth in consistency. I use a small amount a few times a day (small amounts absorb quickly and do not leave a greasy feeling) and will generally heal my cuts and knicks in a couple of days. The smell is not pleasant though!
This sound good and who cares about the smell if it works. I might do this to rub on my knee as I've used CO on the knee but didn't add TTO to it. Thanks. I take oils internally and like my butter so my skin is smooth including fingers/hands.
It works quite well. You know how much TTO you can tolerate, so it should be easy to judge the amount for you. I use a hand mixer to whip the coconut oil and TTO, so the consistency is smooth and creamy. I mix it on high for 2-3 minutes and store it in an airtight container. I hope that this oil works for you; it works really well for me.
I agree 100% as has experienced with a sibling.. Then I experienced with a son who had similar issues. AND YES, Use of overnight ( or sleep times) with lathering up your hands or feet~~ covering hands with cotton gloves and feet with socks~~ It really does make a difference!!
I also found that "GoldBond" lotions made a big difference.~~ OP.. Sometimes a little extra care about hands & feet can make a HUUGE difference!!
May I suggest you use Cocoa Butter cream which is recommended by doctors and used in hospitals, nursing homes and so forth.
It can be bought in a jar or squeeze bottle at any pharmacy; the jar has the thickest form of it; also comes in a plastic bottle which flows better if you keep the bottle standing on its cap which is wide.
It is excellent, and is widely used for healing surgical scars and post-surgery to heal incisions. Use the cotton gloves on your hands at night. If you live in a very cold area, always wear lined gloves. Let us know how you make out with treatment. "Chapped" hands can be very painful when you have broken skin.
Check humidity of your bedroom, if it is low because of heating with gas, increase humidity. Having wet towel hanging on a chair before sleep may already help. On winter our house humidity goes ~30% from normal ~50% and causes enzyme for son.
I have several cuts on my fingers due to dry skin/eczema. I travel and workout a lot. So I would like to protect myself from any infection. I tend to cover my fingers with multiple bandages but it usually looks ridiculous. Plus the bandages tend to come off after I wash my hands.
Should I use New Skin Liquid Bandage? I wonder if that's safe.
Someone told me to put alcohol on my tiny cuts but it's been like this for 1-2 weeks. I figured I'm only supposed to put alcohol on initially and if I'm actually bleeding. Plus I have so many tiny cuts so I'm afraid of the stinging sensation.
What's the best solution for my issue?
Are you sure it is dry skin or eczema? Have you seen a dermatologist?
Growing up, winter-after-winter, I had issues with cracks in the tips of my fingers and thumbs. Painful, bleeding, ugly. From pre-K through junior high years.
Our family MD brushed it off every year (in the days when the family doc's word was gospel and money would never be "wasted" on a second opinion or an actual specialist). He would cite not keeping hands dry, poor quality gloves (my folks spent a lot of money on a lot of different gloves and mittens over the years, listening to this man), poor hand washing on my part and a litany of reasons and would recommend soaps and creams.
It peaked in junior high. Deep cracks in the thumbs, often bleeding. Eighth grade baseball was not so much fun.
But in high school, it was stopped appearing in the winter. Until one winter in college, so I went to the college student health center and the doc there took a three-second look, grabbed a sample of an OTC product out of a door and threw it to me.
Simply, it was a fungus. He stressed using only a cream with Tolnaftate as the active ingredient and that there are several different anti-fungal active ingredients, but that Tolnaftate is the one that will nail this and is common in store brand anti-fungal creams, so is an inexpensive cure as well.
He was right. I have had a few outbreaks since - more frequently in the past four winters that the twenty years before that - and each time, this stuff has cleared it up. In days, if not hours.
That said, when my daughter was a new-born, the pediatrician recommended a slathering of Aquaphor post-bath and we have kept that on hand since. This is the super-thick stuff in a tub.
Also, nothing alcohol-based on your hands. Limit washing them or exposing them to water as much as possible. If you need to wash your hands, quickly with cold water (hot water strips the oils quicker).
Interesting idea. Have you used this yourself? I think I remember that you have numerous allergies too. If it works on you without any problems I might give it a try. One of my thumbs cracks nearly all the way around in the area of the first joint - I'd be thrilled to be able to glue myself back together.
I do use it on myself. I carry a bottle in my purse because most bandaids aren't safe for me (latex allergy). It works really well on straight cuts or cracks that have stopped bleeding. If you cut yourself and it's still bleeding a lot, the blood will wash the glue off or form a bubble under the glue.
Thank you so much! I, too, have latex allergy. I've been able to find latex-free bandaids - right now the ones I have are made by Curad. I think I found them at Walmart. Actually, I look everywhere for them - I've even found them at the .99 Cent Store.
I'll get some glue on my next trip to the store. Right this minute all my splits are almost healed but that will change fast - they never stay that way for long.
Neutrogena's Norwegian Fisherman hand cream is great. A good friend was a pilot who flew in the Rockies a lot - her hands would get incredibly dry and crack and bleed. I recommended the cream to her and she called me raving about it a few weeks later. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Neutrogen...caAmi4EALw_wcB
Use pure shea butter and oil, such as almond or jojoba. Slather your hands in the shea and use the oil on your cuticles.
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