Excessively dry skin on one foot

[WobblyLondoner]

For as long as I can remember I've had really really dry skin on one foot, particularly the heel. I moisturise every day using cream specifically for feet, but still the skin just cracks in patches and peels off. I used to exfoliate but it made no difference so I don't anymore. I did try fungal cream for a few months as I wondered if that might be the issue, but that didn't help either (and surely if it was fungal the other foot would have it by now?).

It never ever happens on the other foot! Has anyone ever had this? Any suggestions?

It's not a big deal in the grand scheme of things but means I tend to avoid open back sandals in the summer (because my feet look so gross) and sometimes it hurts if a particularly thick layer of skin comes off on my sole.

Nobody?! Most obscure & minor ailment ever?

I also have one scaly heel and in the summer months I go to the chiropodist to have it dealt with. I have tried footner and creams and using one of those sandpapering rollers but the professionals are the answer for me!

Is one foot smaller than the other? Might be moving around in shoe

I have similar but also that foot is always colder too and less sweating so skin cracks . I once had back surgery (which I think accounts for it). Trapped nerves or something.

It will almost certainly be fungal. Take it to a GP and get something over the counter. Skin is hard to get medicine into to rid yourself of fungus, it's as if it were designed to keep things out :)

Friend had similar. Eventually went to go and was fungal. Tablets cleared it v quickly.

GP

Thanks all. Will see my GP.