Brief Answer: Plantar corn/ wart Detailed Answer: Hello and welcome to healthcaremagic. I am Dr, kakkar. I have gone through your query, I would like to keep a possibility of Plantar corn or Plantar wart. They both have the same clinical presentation. Clinically they present as hard, tough skin which causes pain when pressed during walking. Treatment is commonly with topical keratolytic solution, containing a mixture of salicylic acid 17.7%+lactic acid17.7% in a flexible collodion base, which functions as a XXXXXXX plaster. The solution should be applied once daily at night, only over the affected area, after soaking the skin in lukewarm water for a few minutes. Scrubbing the skin with pumice stone before applying the keratolytic helps in removing dead skin and allows better penetration. Treatment is usually required for a few weeks. It can be combined with weekly paring(superficial thick dead skin is removed as much as possible, with a scalpel blade) Another option is cryotherapy(liquid nitrogen freezing) or surgical removal with radiofrequency cautery. I usually prefer to treat my patients with keratolytics along with weekly paring. This requires multiple visits (OR the patients can learn to do paring at home, themselves) but it is the most effective method without any need for surgery, which creates a wound that in turn requires daily dressing and precludes walking till the wound is completely healed. An OTC pain killer e.g ibuprofen, once or twice during the day would help you with the pain and discomfort of walking I hope this answers your query. regards

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Brief Answer: Upload a picture Detailed Answer: Hi. Can you please upload a picture of the lesion. regards

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