Hand care - for fishing caused split and cracked hands.

[REW]

I made another post about the use of prepration H - to take care of your hands, as well as acting as a fish scent.

I have also used corn huskers lotion, aloe, deep oil well diggers lotion, utterly udder cream, and noximia - with decent results.

Any other solutions for those cracked and bleeding hands, after catching, releasing and or cleaning lots of fish. It seems that the fish handling - just really takes out all of the moisture and or oil that are naturally occurring in most folks hands.

Take care
REW

[RickK]

There was a good thread on this I think in the fall and under gerneral disusssion,..you might try a search,..ideas and some thing that has worked for others in the past,..I personally like Eucerin cream,..some guys with real bad problems use cotton gloves at night for a while.

[Gilligan]

I use the avon moisture therapy for extremely dry skin, works well for me but haven't tried any you listed so don't know how it would compare.

I finally caught some fish yesterday for the first time this year, and my hands are killing me.... so I know exactly what you are talking about... But Im stupid I just put up with the pain....Must be a stupid man thing my wife says....No remedies here...

[Fishnmagician]

REW, you've got to try Zim's crack cream, ok i know it's a funny name but this stuff is amazeing! I got it at target, but i'am sure any pharmacy will have it. I work outside in the winter in northern minnesota and get very deep cracks on my fingers, 3-4 days of useing zim's, and no more cracks. I'am telling ya, this stuff is amazeing.

[SenecaBow]

Rick try using Chap Stick or Carmex lip moisturizer. Just put it on the cracks and splits, it helps.
I work construction and the hands take a beating in the winter.
ChapStick works, but you have to use it often. I go through 15 or so a year.
Give it a try. If it dosen't work for you, use the Chapstick on your reels, it makes a great gear lube.

[dkooser]

My fingers crack and bleed especially bad at the tips of the fingers/corner of the nails. I use super glue to close the split. It protects the opening which is painful and allows the crack to close.

I learned this trick when I was a UPS driver. In the middle of the winter, with low temps, low humidity and constantly handling cardboard boxes, my hands would be zaped of moisture..

Since then, I have heard that facial surgeons use a super glue like substance to close wounds, openings.

[REW]

Actually one of the first uses for the super glues many years ago, was by brain surgeons doing brain surgery - so I have been told.
It makes sense. I do know that it sticks skin together very well, and eventually it will dissolve with out any apparent side effects.

Take care
REW

[rpieske]

That "Crack Creme" really works. It comes in a cream and also on oil. The oil penetrates faster and works great. The cream has to be rubbed in well and probably will last longer on your hands. I use both...the oil first, followed by the cream. My problem is my elbows. They dry out, crack to the point that they split. I have gotten elbow infections because of this. Not anymore! Crack Creme works.

I have also heard of taking Vitamin E capsules, cutting the ends off and rubbing the oil into your skin.

[Ristorapper]

I have heard of and used a substance many years ago when I was bowling 12-18 games a week and ended up with a blistered thumb because of wear and tear. It is obtained in many bowling alleys and is called liquid skin. I'm guessing it is something on the order of a super glue type of substance. Simply dab it onto the wound and let it air dry a few moments and the wound is sealed up.