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Noticed Skin Peeling On Heels. What Should Be Done?
This is a condition on a 17 year-old boy of mainly African descent in Grenada, West Indies. He is perfectly healthy but recently the skin on the edge of his heels, has begun breaking up and peeling or flaking. Same thing now appears on underside of heels. He usually wears flip-flops but also shoes when going to school, and often nothing at all when walking on the ground near his home.
Wed, 8 May 2013
My dear teenager ur suffering from a condition knoewn as palmo-plantar keratoderma causes for the condition are many as in if u are atopic ( child with frequent rhinitis ,allergies ,asthma , eczema ) , suffering from iron defeciency anemia , or any systemic disease or is it inherted in your family? for all these queries you my need help of skin expert who would investigate you throughly & start you on keratolytic medicine that woukd reduce your scxaling , use of good moisturisers , socks to help in better prenetation of medicines & also preventingb feet from getting soiled & infected
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