Chronic Aptness to Blisters - Skin Problems Message Board

horizons · 09-23-2008, 03:04 PM

Not sure if this is the right category for me to be posting this, but I wanted to ask.

We go to a lot of theme parks, and hence when we go we do a lot of walking, in excess of 5 miles a day. I seem to have a chronic problem with being very apt to get blisters when walking around like this. I have several pairs of tennis shoes and sandals, but no matter what kind of footwear I wear to a theme park, I always come back with at least four blisters on each foot.

I started putting Bodyglide on my feet and this helped for a while, but now it doesn't seem to help prevent blisters anymore. When I get blisters, I always get them in the same places on my feet no matter what shoes I'm wearing or if I put Bodyglide on or not. These places are the ouside edge of my heel and my toes. I never blister anywhere else. I am overweight and thought that this might contribute, though when I lost all my weight a few years ago I still had a problem with chronic blistering even then.

Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to try to prevent blisters in ways other than what I am doing? Or any idea in what might be causing them?

Blossom27 · 09-23-2008, 03:19 PM

The fact that the blister are coming back in the same place each time you walk long distance despite what foot wear you are wearing suggests to me that this problem is not caused by the shoes you are wearing but by something else. You do not say how long they take to heal. Most blisters occur when you are breaking in new shoes, and so long as you don't burst them heal very quickly also the area affected develops a harder skin in that area. Do the shoes that you wear to the theme parks a good fit, in other words does your foot move around inside them? Do you only wear these shoes when going to theme parks? If the latter is the case then wear these shoes more often between going to theme parks if it is the former, then the next time you get these blister go and see your doctor, and see what he suggests.