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health advisory Hospital Diseases 2007-11-12 20:38:08

What do I do about blisters in general...

Answer:

Pad the area and keep the blister from breaking open if possible. If blisters can heal with the skin intact you have less chance of having to deal with an infection and far less pain.

Having your shoes stretched is a good idea but you can do it for free. Place a gallon size zip lock plastic bag in your shoe fill it with water just enough to fill the inside of your shoe, twist tie or zip lock the bag then place shoe in freezer over night. The expansion of the water freezing will stretch the shoes for you.

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Just leave it. The fluid that has built up inside the blister is doing so to provide a cushion for whatever it is rubbing up against. You might want to switch over to more comfortable shoes or sandals too.

The blister will eventually go away on its own. To prevent further problems, take your shoes to a shoe repair shop and have them "stretched." It only costs a couple of bucks.

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There is no real substitute for proper medical attention, but you can alleviate pain and manage it with the following simple technique. It鈥檚 based on the work of Richard Bandler and John Grinder, founders of NLP. It works by acknowledging how you are experiencing the pain then re-coding the experience such that it dissolves the discomfort. You can use this technique on other forms of pain and discomfort such as headaches, hangovers, muscular aches etc. You can also adapt it to work on troublesome feelings like anger, hate etc.