To what extent does diabetes require amputation?

Diabetic foot is a very difficult problem in every hospital. In general, hospitals will consider amputation in order to control infection. In fact, amputation can not guarantee that they will no longer be infected, and the possibility of secondary amputation will occur if the treatment is not good. Therefore, amputation is not the best way for diabetic foot patients. Many patients will also ask: To what extent does diabetes require amputation? It seems that amputation is the only way to treat diabetic foot and the final result. In fact, diabetic foot does not need amputation, and patients ask this, obviously they also reject amputation, but do not know what better way besides amputation?

To what extent does diabetes require amputation?

Although diabetic foot is difficult to treat, finding the right way to treat diabetic foot can be cured. At present, there are probably methods for treating diabetic foot in China:

• Hyperbaric oxygen therapy
• Biological debridement
• Interventional therapy
• Surgical sharp debridement

Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is a method in which a patient breathes pure oxygen in an environment of more than one atmosphere. However, the international evidence for the effective treatment of hyperbaric oxygen in the treatment of diabetic foot is still lacking. It can only be used as an adjuvant therapy. Biological debridement is debridement with medical aphids. Patients will have serious psychological disorders. Interventional therapy for diabetic foot caused by ischemia. There is a certain effect, but only large blood vessels can be involved, but most patients also have lesions in the lower extremity microvessels; surgical sharp debridement is the use of surgical scissors to remove necrotic tissue, but in some hospitals there are excessive debridement problems, The most common is the toe or amputation.

It can be seen that patients with diabetic foot can not amputate. Of course, if the condition is already very serious and you have to amputate, there is no way, but in many cases, the hospital is not responsible for the ambitious amputation for convenience and speed. It is. Remind diabetic patients, must be timely and systematic treatment of diabetic foot, so as not to delay the disease, resulting in more serious consequences.