Patients with diabetes should protect theirs own feet

Diabetic patients with a variety of possible foot disease, even minor diseases will be developed into a heavy disease.

Circulation obstacles

Diabetes can make your foot in the blood vessels narrow, and even hardened. This can reduce the blood supply to the foot. When the lack of blood supply to the foot when the foot is Bianliang, a swelling or purple, does not have sufficient blood supply, the anti-infectious foot drop, slow wound healing, and sometimes simply can not heal.

Nerve injury

Nerve damage can cause foot pain. Reduce the sense of hot and cold, sometimes resulting in no feeling of the foot injury. Nerve damage can affect the regulation of sweating, your feet dry, scaling skin may be shed, Ganlie. Nerve damage can also make the foot deformity, toes curled, increased foot inversion, Jiaogong increased, these changes were a result of the foot rest of the weight increase, which will easily these parts Corn long and hard cocoon.

Hard cocoon

Cocoon hard surface of the skin is thick and hard part. If you do not be pruned hard cocoon will be thickened, cracks, turning into ulcer

Ulcer

Ulcers on the skin is formed on the surface of the open fracture or empty, foot ulcers or multiple limbs palm foot thumb, but also that of the foot, full root or other toes. May trigger ulcers in the untreated wounds. Hard cocoon or blisters on both sides of the foot ulcers are usually sub-foot friction caused by the shoes. Ulcer formation, you may have pain flu, but if your nerve injury occurred, you may not notice the pain. But you do not attach importance to an ulcer, it may occur infection. After the ulcers respiratory infection led to gangrene and amputation.

Gangrene and amputation

Gangrene is necrosis. Necrosis of the color of black organizations. There are two types of gangrene, that is dry and wet gangrene gangrene. Dry gangrene may cycle of obstacles caused by wet gangrene infection was found in the infected ulcers or dry gangrene. Removal of limb amputation is part of the necrosis. This means that you may lose one or more legs that may also lose part of the foot.

Foot disease prevention measures

Blood sugar levels will remain at the ideal range, high blood sugar can you susceptible to foot disease.

If you smoke, it should make efforts to quit. Smoking Vascular no point to the benefits and reduce the blood supply to the foot, foot and delay the healing of wounds, if this were not enough to make you quit smoking, please remember, almost all the necessary amputation of diabetic patients are absorption Who smoke.

Let your doctors attending the annual inspection at least once your foot vessels, muscle, nerve damage whether there.

Adhere to check his legs every day. Your foot on the surface of all the details should be fully read, if you can not very well do so, we ask you friends or relatives for your full inspection. Two legs will be compared to confirm那只feet in the following issues: wounds, cracks, scratched, embedded toenail, the color red, deformation, cold, hot and ulcers. Empty, blister, hard cocoon, swelling and discoloration. Pain, loss of feeling, Corn. Dry. Peeling.

If you have a foot problem, regardless of their severity, should be with the doctor. In each visit doctors regularly, to take off your shoes and socks to remind you to do foot doctors to check.

Keep the foot clean, wash the feet. Wiped away, do not forget to dry your toe joints.

Wu Shi foot contact overheating or too cold water. Elbow try to use the water temperature, but not water Paojiao, otherwise you will be in the foot skin dehydration.

Cutting the toes along the edge of your toenails if you can not be pruned, doctors cut to help you.

Wear clean socks every day. Qingqingdiqiang 1.1 points or socks to wear socks will boost volumes. You must wear socks with legs, no holes, and socks to the surface formation. The joints did not buy socks, because the joints may scratch your foot, a blister.

Buy the shoes to a foot, the shoe fits, wear comfortable. Houdi low with the best choice of shoes, thick soles of the feet are supporting protection. The selection of shoes must be solid. Relaxed, so that the toes activities. When wearing new shoes to wear slowly.

Shoes before the first check the shoes, convinced that shoes are not stones, clips. Da Touzhen or other sharp-wear later. Shoes must face smooth, rough or not on the verge of breakdown.

Common Foot health measures

If you have a foot of the cold: warm and wear socks. Do not use Re Shuiping, Re Shuidai or Dianre Tan, otherwise you did not notice before, they may burn your feet.

If your feet dry and scaling: the humidifier. But do not be humidifier or in between the toes, otherwise moisture had caused the infection.

If your feet sweat a lot: You can wear cotton woven socks. These socks can Xihan and reduce friction. You wear the shoes must have sufficient space, so that you can wear suitable for two pairs of socks.

If your feet are long hard cocoon: Please doctor help you cut off, do not cut themselves. Shear hard cocoon themselves might lead to ulcers and infection. The market does not use chemicals to remove the hard cocoon, these drugs will be burning the skin.

If you have a certain feeling of loss of function of the foot: Do not play barefoot, when a foot injury, you have no perception. Foot doctors may recommend shoes, stuffing or a specific shoes.

If you are ready to swimming or wading, should wear waterproof shoes.

If your feet vulnerable to injury: The pad should wear socks so you can support, foot protection and reduce hard cocoon formed. Pad with the socks can increase walking comfort. You must wear shoes big enough to thickening of the socks in which there is sufficient space. In addition, you may need to deepen the shoes.

If you have a swelling of the feet, they should wear shoes of the band. According feet so you can adjust the size of shoes at any time of ease.