Terrible complications: How do diabetics step by step to amputation and disability?

How do diabetics who have had small skin wounds and small wounds step by step to amputation and even death?

Terrible complications: How do diabetics step by step to amputation and disability?

1. Often the lower limbs are cold, numb, and the legs are “cramped”, which is easily mistaken for the lack of calcium in the elderly and delays the condition. Therefore, the coldness of the foot is an early signal, which is a poor performance of the blood supply to the foot. It must be treated early.

2. “Intermittent claudication” means that after the patient walks for a distance, he develops pain in the lower extremities and is forced to stop exercising. After a short break, the pain is relieved. After walking for a distance again, the pain reappears. As the ischemia increases, the distance the patient walks will become shorter and shorter.


3. “Standing pain”, the patient can have pain in the lower limbs when they are resting, especially when they fall asleep at night.

4. Tissue ischemic necrosis. In severe cases, there will be blackening and necrosis of the limbs, leading to the final amputation of the patient.

Early detection and early treatment is the best prevention method for diabetic foot. Therefore, the annual lower extremity vascular examination of the sugar friend is a necessary screening program for diabetic patients. If the diabetic foot is found early, the disease can be controlled by drug treatment.


Diabetic foot disease is complicated, it is difficult to heal once ulcers occur, and comprehensive treatment is also very troublesome. Therefore, it is necessary to use Yao Yaokang to control infection and heal the ulcer surface in the early stage of ulceration. If the wound cannot be healed in the early stage, the infection will spread to the surrounding skin, and then gangrene will eventually choose amputation. The cost of comprehensive treatment and amputation is high, and the average small family cannot support it for a long time.


In addition, we must strictly control blood sugar, check the skin for daily skin damage, wear appropriate shoes, wear light socks, try to avoid wounds, and the elderly must pay attention to temperature in the winter, so as not to burn, do not soak For too long, it will be appropriate.