First you need to find out why the feet are burning, because it is on this that the treatment depends.
Inconvenient shoes, high heels can cause a burning sensation in the feet. Wearing tight shoes leads to stagnation of blood, and after removing it, the muscles and blood vessels quickly relax, which causes increased blood flow.
Complaints about burning feet also occur in women in the last months of pregnancy. Puffiness, lethargy of muscles, weight gain increase the load on the legs. As a result of this, stagnation of blood flow, accumulation of toxins, and increased vascular permeability occur, which causes a burning sensation in the legs and feet.
Other causes may be stress, overheating, overwork. The vegetative-vascular system fails due to a constant rush and outflow of blood, and then the feet are burning.
Burning in the feet due to various diseases.
Itching and yellowing, nail crumbling, cracks and burning feet can indicate a fungus.
Obliterating endarteritis affects the arteries of the lower extremities, as a result of this, the legs burn and numb.
With varicose veins, there are complaints of severe edema, heaviness in the legs, muscle cramps, burning feet, swelling of the veins.
Patients with thrombophlebitis first notice a slight pain in the legs, the temperature may rise, swelling of the leg at the site of the formation of a thrombus. Atherosclerosis has similar symptoms.
Other diseases that cause burning feet include diabetes mellitus, allergies, gout, flat feet, lack of B vitamins.
How to help yourself?
When the feet are burning, the contrast shower, compresses, special baths or exercises can become salvation. Hot and warm baths are contraindicated in this case, as well as cold ones. Burning feet will save a 15-minute contrast shower with alternating warm and cool water for every minute or two. At the beginning and at the end, turn on cold water. After the procedure, lubricate the feet with a cream with peppermint extract, making rubbing movements from the foot up.
Trays of medicinal herbs (mint, chamomile, wormwood, calendula, lime blossom) are prepared as follows: add 1 tablespoon of any herb to 1 liter of boiling water.
For compresses, you can use blue clay, hop cones, pine needles. Clay is applied to the feet and above and wrapped with polyethylene for 1-2 hours, then washed off with water 20-25 degrees and lubricated with menthol cream. For a compress of cones and kidneys, you need to insist 2 tablespoons of the raw material in a glass of boiled water, moisten the cotton cloth in the solution and wrap the burning feet in the hands for half an hour. Kneading movements, exercises and massage also help well.
It is recommended to monitor nutrition. Avoid eating habits. Soda, salty and fatty foods, alcohol are harmful to the body. Choose shoes according to size, with a comfortable shoe and not too high heels. If your burning condition is permanent, consult a doctor.
Any health problem requires constant monitoring by specialists. Once the condition worsens, treatment becomes more difficult. Therefore take care of yourself!