How to treat a spur on the heel at home

Spur on the heel - a very unpleasant phenomenon. Fortunately, there are many home methods, how to treat spurs on the heel of folk remedies and get rid of them completely. All national exposure options are divided into several groups. Someone advises warming up, someone does compresses at night, 24-hour dressings or a special massage will also help.

• How not to get confused
• What baths are recommended to do
• Salty water
• Hot alcohol or moonshine
• Compresses for home treatment of calcaneal spurs
• Garlic
• Tar
• Bow
• Radish
• Iodine
• And it will help bile
• Preparations
• Dimexide
• Ointment

Traditional medicine recognizes all these home therapies. But for compresses instead of herbs and decoctions, doctors recommend using medicines from pharmacies. They are often expensive, but are made on the basis of plant components, which are used by traditional medicine.

Important!Some folk healers claim that they can get rid of the spur literally after the third procedure. But to achieve a really excellent result, you need to spend at least a month.

How not to get confused

Before treating the spur on the heel at home, you need to pay attention to one subtlety. Many people confuse plantar warts and spurs. These are two completely different entities, which need to be influenced in different ways. A wart always has a rod, it causes pain. The spur of the rod does not, it should be painless, especially if it was formed recently.

If it became painful to walk, and you do not know which doctor treats the spur, then you need to seek help from a therapist, and he will already give a referral to a traumatologist or surgeon. This doctor will examine the leg, then send for radiography to restore the complete "picture" of the disease and prescribe the correct treatment.

Important!There may also be a spur on the foot, how to treat it read in our article.

What baths are recommended to do

Salty water

In 5 liters of water, hot enough, dilute a kilogram of ordinary salt. Water bring to a boil, when it becomes hot (but still tolerant), lowered her legs. You need to soar your feet in salt water, until it completely cools. The course should be 10 procedures. It is not necessary to change the solution: it will need to be heated additionally. Reviews say that after the fifth procedure the spur can pass, but still bring the treatment to the end.

Instead of salt water, you can take hot whey. It also follows ten sessions to keep your feet. Serum temperature should be low, so as not to cause pain.

Hot alcohol or moonshine

Take alcohol and pour into a pan, in a saucepan. Heat slowly, otherwise alcohol will quickly ignite. Put your feet in hot alcohol for a quarter of an hour. Then remove the legs from the bath, but do not wipe them: let them dry themselves.

You can also use burning moonshine to treat tumors. The dish is filled with 100 ml of moonshine. Since in the brewer's own fusel oils, it needs to be set on fire. It will begin to burn and in this flame it is necessary to warm the soles of both feet. Despite the fact that the spurs can only be on one heel, you still need to warm up both legs. Warm until all the brew does not evaporate. Then do a five-minute massage. Such a method is dangerous, and foot burns can occur. Doctors do not recommend using it for treatment.

Compresses for home treatment of calcaneal spurs

Garlic

Use the most common garlic. The ingredient should be cleaned, compressed and applied to the problem area for several hours. Carry out the procedure until the pain syndrome completely disappears. In some cases, the compress burns hard, then from such a popular way should be abandoned.

You can mix rastolchenny chalk with grated garlic in equal proportions. Legs to steam out and gruel to apply to the spur. Education must be completely completed within 4-5 sessions.

Tar

Tar can help with the treatment of the spur much more honey. Take a crust of black bread. On it, spread the tar and fix it on the spur, wrap it with polyethylene. Compress leave for the night, because it is not recommended to move or cool it.

Bow

To treat a spur on a heel in house conditions the usual onions help. It will be necessary to grate 200 grams of onions on a grater, put in a bag. In the same package put your foot. For additional warming, use additional cloth. In the morning wipe, do not wash off the gruel. Carry out the procedure several times.

You can mix onions and tar to get rid of education. On a half of onion drip the tar and apply to the problem place.

Radish

Perfectly helps in this situation, black radish. It should be cleaned and grated. Kasha should be applied to the problem area for the night, washed off with warm water in the morning.

Iodine

Iodine is considered to be one of the most common and effective ways to treat spurs. Iodine alcohol tincture, which has a warming and anti-inflammatory property, is used alone or in combination with other substances.

Recipes for treating spurs with iodine:

• Bath (for 3 liters of water dilute 2 tbsp. l. iodine and 1 tbsp. l. soda, hold your feet for 15 minutes, remove, wipe and lubricate the heel of the heel);
• 3% tincture pour into a container to fit the heel and lower the leg for 5 minutes, then get out and put on a warm sock;
• daily do iodine mesh.

And it will help bile

To prepare a compress you need to mix 40 grams of bile animal origin with 20 ml of vodka and 5 grams of laundry soap (grate it on a fine grater). On the steamed heel, do a compress at night. The pain must recede in a few days. Do not be afraid that bile in the city can not be obtained. In fact, it is often sold in conventional pharmacies.

Which products can be used for round-the-clock compresses:

1. Mushroom grown on tea brew.
2. The leaves of the nettle, as well as the greenery of the ordinary burdock (fresh gruel).
3. Red pepper, which is sold as a seasoning.
4. Grass of spores.
5. Ordinary potato tubers (rubbed on a grater with a peel).
6. Leaves of plantain.

Preparations

To heal and get rid of heel spurs, ointments and gels are used, which are divided into two groups: hormonal (hydrocortisone) and non-steroidal anti-inflammatory (Ibuprofen, Diclofenac, Voltaren, Flexen, Butadion). It is convenient to use creams on vegetable basis from spurs (Shark fat, Golden mustache, Orto).

If you are constantly on your feet in shoes, you can not regularly apply ointments and creams, so you can use a bandage with antiseptic and analgesic ingredients.
If ointments do not help, then an injection is given in the heel joint (Diprospan).

Dimexide

Dimexide (Dimethylsulfoxide) is a preparation with anti-inflammatory properties, has a wide spectrum of action, is used for calcaneal spurs in the form of compresses (3 tbsp. l. Dilify the mixture in 250 ml of warm water, moisten the gauze and put on a sore spot, top wrap with polyethylene and put on a sock, leave for 2 hours).

Ointment

Hydrocortisone and indomethacin ointments have become very popular for the treatment of spurs. For a better effect make a combined ointment from different drugstuffs (100 grams of Dimexide is mixed with 100 g of distilled water, then 1 bottle of heparin and 1 tube of 1% hydrocortisone ointment are added, and 6 ampoules of 50% analgin are poured). From the prepared ointment apply a compress for the night, moistening in a mixture of gauze.

There are many ways how to treat a spur on the heel at home. If one particular method does not help you, do not despair. Certain other products will definitely help. All of them have a curative effect, but because of the characteristics of the organism they can influence differently.