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.

Don't want to be amputated, diabetics have 7 things to do! No time to delay

For most people with diabetes, the most fear is the complications caused by diabetes, such as diabetic nephropathy, diabetic foot, retinopathy and other diseases, these complications will cause very much damage to the patient's body. Here mainly talk about the knowledge of diabetic foot, hoping to help more people.

Don't want to be amputated, diabetics have 7 things to do! No time to delay

Why is there a diabetic foot?

Long-term high blood sugar levels can cause nerve damage, which can interfere with your ability to sense pain and temperature, which can cause diabetics to not notice the risk of problems on their feet, such as being burnt when washing feet with hot water. .

Nearly 10% of diabetic patients have ulcers in the foot due to peripheral vascular disease and nerve damage, and the patient may not notice the wound on the foot, which in turn may lead to infection.

How to prevent diabetic foot?