Dear Adam: My teenage son, a seven-day-a-week basketball player, occasionally gets blisters on the bottom of his feet.

The bottom line Dermatologists agree that you should generally avoid popping your blisters. Blisters are there for a reason — to protect your skin. So it's best to let them resolve on their own.

but they have an unfortunate seam that blisters the life out of the ball of my foot. These metatarsal gel cushions were a godsend — the last time I wore the sandals without them, I almost threw ...

Background. A 61-year-old man with type 2 diabetes mellitus presented to a diabetic foot clinic 1 year after he injured his left foot in a slip injury. Examination showed collapse of the ...