September reset for your feet.

For anyone with small people in the household (well, even some not so small people!), September means back to routines. Back to the school run, back to work after summer holidays. It will also sadly mean back to jumpers, coats, and closed-in shoes for all of us after a long, hot summer.

This time of getting back into a routine and life becoming a little quieter as the year winds down, can be a great time to sort out any niggles with your feet which you may have noticed over the summer months. It is also an ideal time to start incorporating some good foot care habits into your day, to keep your feet in tip-top condition for next spring/summer. New habits don’t have to be reserved for New Year you know!

Why now is a great time to start focussing on your foot health.

For many people with young families, or those who look after the younger generations over the holidays, the summer months are busy times. Once life settles down again, and days get back to normal, regular timings, it can be easier to schedule in appointments around daily activities.

It can be that over the summer holidays, foot problems become more apparent. Warmer months often mean changes to footwear (no socks, open sandals for example), or more activity outdoors. These sorts of changes can lead to problems such as callus and corn formation, dry skin, blisters, and verrucae. When our feet are exposed more, we also tend to notice things that we didn’t over the colder months. The quieter autumn and winter months are an ideal time to deal with these types of foot problems. Verrucae for example can take some months to resolve, even with fairly intensive treatment.

Good foot care habits to adopt over the autumn and winter months.

• Check your feet over regularly. Don’t forget about your feet once they are covered up with socks and shoes.
• Continue to apply moisturiser to your feet daily, if possible. Moisturiser isn’t just for the summer months once your feet are on display. Your skin cells replace every 4 weeks on average, so you will need to use a product regularly to see good results.
• Disinfect winter shoes before you start to wear them. Use a surface antifungal, such as Clinisept, or Daktarin powder to treat shoes now before the colder weather really starts. This will help keep fungal infections at bay.
• Start to treat problems such as verrucae, so that there is a better chance of them resolving in time for next year’s better weather.
• Keep checking children’s school shoes for size throughout the autumn and winter term times – as we all know, they grow fast!! We recommend CeCe and me for little ones’ shoe needs – based in Lepton. Check out their website here.(opens in new tab)

If you have any foot niggles you would like treatment or advice on, then please get in touch here. We’re happy to help.