I hope you are not reading this right before lunch coz i think this will totally gross you out.
Finish your lunch and let it digest before you continue :P.
Why? Today i am going to write about corn, that’s why.
Have you noticed that sometimes you get this really hard skin protruding from the skin surface of your toes, your fingers (especially the middle finger of your writing hand) or your palm? If your answer is “no” then you are one of those lucky people that i’m envious of because you either have really good skin or you hardly need to do any housework.
For people women who does a lot of housework or wear shoes too tight you are bound to get calluses or sometimes corn. Figurative speaking though i think men are more susceptible.
A corn is a specially-shaped callus of dead skin that usually occurs
on thin or smooth) skin surfaces, especially on the dorsal surface of toes or fingers. They can sometimes occur on the thicker palmar or plantar skin surfaces. Corns form when the pressure point against the skin traces an elliptical or semi-elliptical path during the rubbing motion, the center of which is at the point of pressure, gradually widening.
Corn is not necessarily painful (although sometimes if it’s constantly rubbed or if it becomes infected) but mostly corn is just a nuisance.
I have this one corn on my right hand thumb since i was young. Don’t ask me how it got there because i have no idea.
I tried cutting it off with a nail clipper but it just grew back because i didn’t reach the corn head. In order to remove the corn i needed to remove the head which is rather deep within the skin. Even by doing so there is no guarantee that it will go away permanently.
I have also tried liquid medication that contains a slight percentage of acid. I put a drop on the corn everyday and it was supposed to slowly peel off the skin layer by layer until it reaches the corn head. It was too painful so i stopped using it before i finding out if it works.
Recently, i noticed 2 more corns on my hand (one of my left and 2 on my right). Off to the pharmacy i ran.
I came back with a pack of medicated plasters. Carnation brand corn caps.
The pack contain 6 corn caps that is supposed to help remove corns. Each corn cap is to be applied on the corn for two days at a time until the corn is removed. The medicated cap contains Salicylic Acid among other ingredients that will peel the hard skin away and a red color ring around the medication to relief pressure and to contain the medication from spilling out.
Day 1: There was no pain but the area around the corn was stained red by the medicine from the corn cap. The corn itself was more protruding and hard.
Day 4: Still there was no pain involved. The skin around the corn became very soft as the skin was dissolving but the corn was harder than ever. It became very obvious too. Look at the pic below where the corn is jutting out more and more by the day.
Day 6: I felt a slight pain whenever i use my hand and the area is accidentally brushed upon (even with the corn cap paltered on). It’s not too painful but bearable… kind of like rubbing alcohol on a small wound kind of pain. The whole area around the corn started to peel.
Day 8: The corn actually came off after i gently scrapped it away! Of course i felt a little bit of pain but really it’s nothing serious. It’s not as painful as it looks.
Day 12: The affected area is now healed.
I am right now in the process of curing my other hand from corn. The corn cap have proven to work but i think the number of days it takes to remove the corn depends on how big and deep the corn is. Most probably it would just take less than a week to work.
One negative thing about this corn cap is that the ring is too big so the surface that is exposed to the Salicylic Acid is rather a lot. The area within the red ring soften and peels really fast so it’ll hurt a bit. Otherwise it’s quite useful.
Note: Pls read the instruction carefully. There are directions to follow and it might cause adverse effect if you have certain health constraint like diabetes.
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