Running a XC race for my high school a couple days ago, I got a layer of skin taken off on the arch of my foot from a stupid rock. It’s pretty cool lookin’.
Anyways, I got a tri coming up in about a week and I got this annoying huge and painful wound on the bottom of my foot. What do you recommend to get this thing all better fast!?
This is bad, wounds on the feet are tough. Basically, without getting into it, you’d have to be off your feet until it healed. Not very pratical…
Keep it clean and covered and use lots of antibacterial lotion like neosporin.
I played rugby five days after getting a piece of metal cut out of my foot by a surgeon so you can do a tri next weekend.
I’ve used New Skin which is similar to the Band Aid liquid bandage to cover torn blisters on my feet and it works great. Just paint on a thick layer and let it dry. It will feel almost as good as new.
Keep it clean and dry
Call doctor McCoy
jaretj
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The new skin stuff can work pretty well for heel blisters and such. I’ve never tried it on the arch, but I would thinik it’ll work for that too.
Or,…you could just suck it up and be a tough guy. Good luck with that.
spit some whiskey on it and you’re good to go!
The new skin is great stuff – keep it covered and moist.
On top of that – heal from the inside too – Eat a lot of garlic.
"spit some whiskey on it and you’re good to go! "
Don’t waste the whiskey. Drink the whiskey, spit some spit on your foot. Of course, since you’re racing a highschool race, don’t get caught with the whiskey. 
Johnson & Johnson advanced healing pads. strange stuff but it really works, cuhisions the area. come in diff. sizes, not cheap. leave it on 3-4 days. the body works to heal itself. i’v used it on elbow road rash, cuts of all types and insect bites that left a hole
I also concur with the above posters. I’ve tried liquid bandage and it works great. I use it for sprints when I don’t wear socks and have used it for arch blisters before.
TRY IT IN PRACTICE!
-Robert
Liquid skin is great stuff. I used to use it when I lived in the midwest and played basketball outside in the winter until the ends of my fingers cracked open.
Also take extra zinc and vitamin C. Both needed for wound healing. Electrical current on the area also speeds healing but it requires special equipment - not just a fork in an outlet.
Ah…my area of expertise from Adventure Racing and Inline skate racing!
Depends on the nature of your wound…
From the sounds of it…letting it dry in the next week will be fine. Usually takes about 3 days.
However, if you want to race NOW, you have a few options. Liquid Bandage or Nu Skin won’t cut it as it rubs off under pressure (but is always better than a bandage).
Rip the effected skin off completely, let drain. Apply either super glue (if no red flesh is showing) or Tincture of Benzoin. This is stiffen up the area. The super glue thing is pretty darn toxic, so be careful. Duct tape can work well also.
Put a hole in the area and use 2nd skin or “o” rings.
I tried New Skin once. that stuff burns like hell, how do you stand it?
He’s an Ironman?
-Robert
If you want to “heal faster” instead of just covering the wound with something, this will work. Find a Dr. who uses low level laser therapy. Proven to increase healing rates 33-50% by stimulating the skin and muscle cells to divide faster. The results are generally quite dramatic. Chiropractors are probably the most common though I’ve heard of PT clinics having the laser available. They will probably be standard in any clinic within 10 years.
Good Luck
Lehmkuhler
Yeah, red skin is showing.
I don’t think the wound was from a blister at all. I really think I hit that rock hard enough that it just took off the layers of skin at that moment. All I know was that I was running happy, hit the rock and with in a couple steps I feel pain coming from the arch.
Well, if none of the options posted on this thread work, you might want to try obtaining one of those little hand held jobs that Bones used to wave over his sick patients in those old Star Trek episodes. That thing used to heal all kinds of problems.
Either use one of the gel pads for burns, sold in drug stores, or just keep a coating of antibiotic ointment and a gause over it. do this after washing it thoroughly. DON’T let it dry out. Drying promotes the growth of bacteria, which delay healing.