Dry cracked hands
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Topic: Dry cracked hands
Posted By: Thad in AR.
Subject: Dry cracked hands
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 5:32am
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What to use? I know we’ve covered this but I can’t remember all the good stuff. Got a bad case this year. Finger tips all split. Can’t get my hands clean from all the cracks. Getting sore. Got one finger Tip been peeling and bleeding for a month or so. Spring is here and I’m ready to get past this. |
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Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 5:47am
| Corn huskers, good stuff,my hands used to crack & split so bad they would bleed. |
Posted By: jaybmiller
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 5:52am
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swallow at least 2000-3000 Vitamin D pills a day ! as well as lots of hand cream, any hand cream, often. put vitamin E cream on as well, overnight 's a great time for that ------------- 3 D-14s,A-C forklift, B-112 Kubota BX23S lil' TOOT( The Other Orange Tractor) Never burn your bridges, unless you can walk on water |
Posted By: Hubert (Ga)engine7
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:16am
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Corn Huskers is good. Bag Balm (square green can) from your local farm supply. Wally World used to sell a product called Udderly Smooth in a black and white tube or jar. As much as you can use gloves to protect your hands, especially from any chemicals that you use on the job. ------------- Just an old country boy saved by the grace of God. |
Posted By: ford8nwd
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:22am
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I used to cut the fingers off leather gloves and coat my fingers with heavy amounts of Vaseline at night. I mean HEAVY, as much as I could put on. I could really tell the difference the next morning. |
Posted By: Sugarmaker
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:22am
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Okeefs working hands is pretty good. Have thumb issues cracked and trying to get them healed up too. Always this time of the year. Good luck and take care of those hands! Regards, Chris ------------- D17 1958 (NFE), WD45 1954 (NFE), WD 1952 (NFE), WD 1950 (WFE), Allis F-40 forklift, Allis CA, Allis D14, Ford Jubilee, Many IH Cub Cadets, 32 Ford Dump, 65 Comet. |
Posted By: Dave H
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:29am
| Cetaphil |
Posted By: truckerfarmer
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:55am
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I'll second O'Keefe's. The O'Keefe's Working Feet paste seems to work faster, in my opinion. If they get to the point of cracking open, I put a dab of Neosporin, (triple antibiotic cream) on them an wrap with medical tape at bedtime. By morning will start to heal enough that it shouldn't be like an open wound. And the tape will hold enough moisture to soften the skin around it. ------------- Looking at the past to see the future. '53 WD, '53 WD45, WD snap coupler field cultivator, #53 plow,'53 HD5B dozer Duct tape.... Can't fix stupidity. But will muffle the sound of it! |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:22am
Man, that's a LOT of pills!!!
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jaybmiller wrote:Posted By: darrel in ND
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:33am
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Vitamin D does it. In the winter, you get less of it from the sunlight, so ya need a little supplement. I kno y'all going to say that your hands catch more rays than any other part of your body, and they are the problem. Well vitamin D within your body is what takes care of your hands, not the direct sunlight on them. You could bare your ass in the sunlight all day long, and keep your hands covered, and the vitamin D soaked up through your backside is going to help your hands. Darrel |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:39am
Now I'm confused....I thought that was where the sun don't shine?
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Posted By: Pat the Plumber CIL
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:41am
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Sound disgusting but works . Coat your hands in petroleum jelly, really thick . Pull on some gloves you can throw away and sleep with them a couple nights in a row. 0nly way I could heal my hands when I was growing up on the farm in the winter. ------------- You only need to know 3 things to be a plumber;Crap rolls down hill,Hot is on the left and Don't bite your fingernails 1964 D-17 SIV 3 Pt.WF,1964 D-15 Ser II 3pt.WF ,1960 D-17 SI NF,1956 WD 45 WF. |
Posted By: TomC
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 7:54am
| Used to buy cheap brown jersey gloves in the dozen bag for that very use. It beats bleeding all over your pillow case and sheets. |
Posted By: nella(Pa)
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:24am
Buy the Vaseline brand petroleum jelly, not an after market brand, there is a difference with some of then, it dose promote healing. Soap and water first, dry the area, Vaseline and a bandaid is what I put on my minor injuries.
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Posted By: IBWD MIke
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:26am
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I've used most of the things mentioned here, most worked to some degree. Vanicream is another good one. Neosporin helps me the fastest. Corhuskers smells so bad to me I only put it on once and threw it away! Cracked hands/fingers can be a symptom of psoriasis. I fought with it for years, what a pain. High dollar steroid cream helped, prescribed by a dermatologist I wasn't too crazy about. At least now I'm 'cured' and don't have to go anymore. Crazy part about this is when I went on the low-carb diet my hands got better. They were getting better before I started but have gotten back to normal now. I barely use any lotion nowadays. Good luck, cracked fingers is a real drag!
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Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:31am
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I posted on this some time ago. Now, while mine never bled any they cracked so bad they looked like alligator skin and them lady cashiers was always lookin and pointin,,,,!!!! My biggest issue was the cracked skin was always hanging up on anything and that would HURT,,!! I tried lots of different things and finally settled on O'Keeffe's Working Hands. After bout a month the cracking finally went away.
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Posted By: ac hunter
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:07am
| I have had pretty fair results from Cera Ve hand cream. A bit expensive though but what isn't any more. I think the vitamin D helps too. |
Posted By: injpumpEd
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:29am
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I tried my wife's bath and body works body cream a few times, and it works about the best of all I've tried. My hands are in chemicals all day, and winter is a bad time. I use the winter candy apple as it doesn't stink like the other "flavors" she has lol! Now I get a couple of tubes of it for Christmas lol! Laugh all you want, but it works great! ------------- 210 "too hot to farm" puller, part of the "insane pumpkin posse". Owner of Guenther Heritage Diesel, specializing in fuel injection systems on heritage era tractors. stock rebuilds to all out pullers! |
Posted By: fixer1958
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:33am
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Doc has me taking 50000iu vitamin D once a week. Doesn't do chit for cracked thumbs. Keep it wrapped up and neosporin on it and try not to bang it around. Trying to get the right one healed up, been giving me grief for 2 months.
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Posted By: FloydKS
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:47am
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Even though I use CeraVe... i agree with the ones who said most of the creams do something but ya gotta keep your hands and fingertips greased all the time, not just a once a day application. ------------- Holding a grudge is like taking poison and expecting the other person to die |
Posted By: tadams(OH)
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 9:52am
| Which ever cream you use just make sure you keep your hands coated with it to get them healed. |
Posted By: Tbone95
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 10:49am
I have Vitamin D problems as well, and been prescribed that dosage, also didn't do much for my symptoms. Got to talking with my Chiropractor (laugh if you want, but she is an amazing and extremely smart Dr.) According to her, the D you get from the pharmacy is in the wrong form to be properly used by your body, and she gave me some that was actually a little lower iu, but it actually worked after a couple weeks.
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Posted By: DonBC
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 12:15pm
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I vote for Bag Balm. Used it on my hands and also on my heels. Very effective. Many drug stores carry it. ------------- Jack of all trades, master of none |
Posted By: iowallis
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 1:48pm
I use my wife's B&BW "gentle foaming hand soap" on my greasy/oily hands and it works better than the hand soaps made for greasy/oily hands or Dawn dishwashing soap. Plus my hands smell pretty good also. Was laughed at on a work site until my coworkers tried it. As far as hand creams my dad would get some stuff from a neighbor who was an electrical lineman for the power company, in a tube and started with a "P". Then I used "VANICREAM" that was OTC in the local ShopKo pharmacy. Haven't seen it since once they closed up. Now it is either some men's B&BW hand lotion or unscented whatever from WalMart due to working in a food processing facility and can't use anything scented.
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Posted By: LeonR2013
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 5:04pm
| You can try a cheap clean motor oil for greasy hands. It will cut that old grease real well. After that use a hand soap that really suds up and in a few minutes you'll be good to go. Leon |
Posted By: HD6GTOM
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 6:03pm
| Look up Randol Honey farm. All natural hand lotion. We ship it all over the USA. |
Posted By: klinemar
Date Posted: 08 Mar 2021 at 8:18pm
| I use Udder Balm to keep my hands from cracking open in winter. Here is a link. https://www.lambertvetsupply.com/Udder-Balm-3-oz-Tube_p_32357.html" rel="nofollow - https://www.lambertvetsupply.com/Udder-Balm-3-oz-Tube_p_32357.html |
Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 4:47pm
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Work Carmex into the cracks ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Coke-in-MN
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 7:11pm
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Udder Balm from farm supply store , now wife used glycerin and worked well into hands , then put on thin cotton gloves when she worked in envelope factory and paper dried out her hands. later is was Avon skins so soft lotion . ------------- Faith isn't a jump in the dark. It is a walk in the light. Faith is not guessing; it is knowing something. "Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." |
Posted By: shameless dude
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 10:14pm
| more sex! |
Posted By: Dakota Dave
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 10:53pm
| Use miaderm. If they hurt use maiden l is has lidocaine treat at least morning and night. At night apply heavy and wear cotton gloves. My doctor recommended when going Thru cancer treatment. It's expensive but works better than anything else. Uceren cream is the next best whatever you use wear cotton cloves at night it increases the effectiveness. I've used the cheep brown jersey gloves but you can get the thin white ones in health and beauty aids. They are thinner and don't soak up as much. The cotton will hold it on your hands and the skin can still breath. Don't wash the glove till your done with treatment. You should notice a improvement in just a couple days. Start wearing gloves to protect your hands wher out working. I get 12 packs of the thin red gloves with rubber coated palms at SAMs club for $11. Cheep enough to to keep a pack in the truck and the shop. They only last a couple days fencing or working at the farm but much longer just doing yard work around the house. When they get bad just toss in the wood stove and there gone |
Posted By: desertjoe
Date Posted: 09 Mar 2021 at 11:54pm
What,,,?? you gots the crackies on ur,,,,,,the,,,,UMmmm,,,never mind,,,,,,dang that must breally painful,,,,,,
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Posted By: Lars(wi)
Date Posted: 10 Mar 2021 at 1:31am
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More sex helps everything. ------------- I tried to follow the science, but it was not there. I then followed the money, and that’s where I found the science. |
Posted By: Bob-Maine
Date Posted: 20 Mar 2021 at 7:02pm
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I have used No Crack hand cream for years. It's made by a pharmacist in, I believe, Wisconsin and can be ordered from Duluth Trading. Works well for me. Bob@allisdowneast ------------- I used to think I was indecisive, but now I'm not sure. |