What causes the skin to tear on the bottom of my big toe?

My kids get this too! It just happens occasionally, but it makes for a really sore walk!|||Well, i guess its due to your foot movements in your shoe, when you move your feet, your skin would be pressed against the shoe, and after a while, the skin starts to get loose due to all the pressing and lifting and eventually, your skin would start to tear due to friction.|||My daughter gets this all the time, but she is a dancer. I asked a similar question a couple of weeks ago and the best answer I received seems to be helping her. She now uses a medicated powder in her shoes to help keep her feet dry and it seems to be helping.|||If they are great slabs of skin the callous has gotten too thick. Soak the foot %26amp; scrape off callous with a pumice or other device to prevent...only after skin is healed. If its thin layers of skin its atheletes foor. Buy some anti-fungal cream at a local drugstore %26amp; try to keep skin dry %26amp; exposed to air as much as possible|||Sometimes it is the material in the socks ( nylon) wool is more suitable. Keep your feet dry. Before long walks, I always daubed my feet in surgical spirit, then when dry applied baby powder, never had that problem again. Trainers are bad news for feet.|||The skin is dead. Don%26#039;t peel it or it will take away the fresh skin too. It sounds to me like you spend a lot of time walking around in bare feet.|||Home own all.