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By Veronica Beltran

caring for your feet may be easy to forget

TYH Foot care: It’s easy to neglect them, they are far from our head

Oct 29, 2019 | 2:09 PM

It’s time to treat our toes the way we treat our hair and our skin, with the utmost care.

Foot care, it can be something that slips our mind, I mean our feet are on the complete, and polar opposite side from our heads! However we shouldn’t take them for granted, they do after all carry our entire body weight all day long. Melonie Millar is an LPN, and Foot Care nurse with M&M Advanced Footcare Services. She works out of the Hart Drugs Pharmacy providing residents of Prince George with a complete toe pampering experience.

“Our tools are different than an esthetician, even most doctors don’t have this type of tool.”

“This is a nursing service so people who have normal complications with their feet. Common problems like thick nails, curled nails, some nails are ingrown. Even fungal nails, and corns, we can help treat and monitor,” she told us in an on-camera interview.

Foot Care Friday’s runs every Friday from nine until noon providing a what she says is an important service, especially for those who may suffer of kidney disease or diabetes. Foot wounds, such as dry skin, ingrown toenails, or blisters can “lead to a chronic wound which can lead to a very big infection and worse,” in those cases. For them, she says it is all about prevention, ensuring that they won’t run into any cuts or sores in order to prevent a wound that could take a long time to heal.

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The most common thing she sees are ingrown toenails especially amoungst young people. She didn’t let us leave without giving us a tip on nail cutting to prevent ingrown toenails, “you should always try and cut straight across so that you are flush with the skin and then you want to round all the corners so that you’re not going to catch all your socks.”

Like I said, they can be easy to forget, but shouldnt be especially seeing that the average person walks around 7,500 steps a day, an equivalent of 216,262,500 steps in an 80-year lifespan…that’s a lot of work for our tootsies.