any special socks to prevent blisters

[Dee & Greg]

I have posted on this subject more than I can count, so forgive me if you've heard this one before... I was the blister queen; almost ruined a WDW vacation. Spent one day riding the monorail visiting resorts because I couldn't make it around the parks, In NOVEMBER! DH swore he would not take me back until I found some blister solutions. Here they are:
* Great shoes. I found a runners shoe store that had me walk around barefooted so they could see how my feet touched the ground. They suggested some "Saucony" shoes. That's all I wear now!
* Thorlo socks or blister blockers. I wear the thin ones. They have two layers of cloth that absorb the friction so your foot doesn't
* Vaseline between the toes! My little toes overlap each other and I would get blisters between them. Sounds yucky, but it works. The toes slide against each other with the Vaseline and the skin doesn't stick.
* I pack my fanny pack with: vaseline, pre cut moleskin, and the Band aid blister blockers. I haven't needed any of them, but I'm paranoid!

I haven't had a blister since. That was three Disney trips ago. Woo Hoo!

 

[JenniBarra]

What worked for me in preventing blisters is these things called Cushlins. I think they might be a Dr. Scholl's product.

 

[disneydeb]

i have 2 reccommondations for you the first is i was watching a denise austin video one morning and she reccommendeed soxs made out of cotton and acrylic with a cushiony bottom to them , my own personal reccommondation is that if you should get a blist put sa bandaid on it and then put some duck tape over it it will help keep the bandaid from sliding while you walk and will protect the blister from popping!!!!

 

[LKS]

Be really careful with strong tapes, like duct tape. 11 year ago in Hawaii, my husband though he would tape up my foot to cover my blisters. Well, the tape pulled all the skin off of my foot while we were hiking out on the lava to see it go into the sea. It was dark and I knew my foot hurt, but I didn't stop to check. Big mistake. So then I had blisters on the bottom and no skin all around and on top (he wrapped the tape around over the top of my foot.) Boy, I had fogotten about that until I read the above post. Ouch! It took him a while to live that down.

 

[LBYC-19]

I bought Thorlos sox for my DS who was involved in a charity walk for his school from Maine to New Hampshire -l40 miles, I think. He got no blisters, so I guess it was well worth the outrageous price. I got them at Eastern Mountain Sports. For our upcoming WDW trip, I just bought sox with "cool max" at Wal-Mart.