One of the foremost concerns for persons with diabetes is proper foot care.
Complications arising from diabetes can be varied and wide-ranging, affecting various bodily organs - from the eyes, heart and kidneys to the feet.
This is mainly because of permanent damages to the small blood vessels within these organs, poor blood circulation and neuropathy arising from the continuous ravages of diabetes over time.
The foot in particular, is a primary concern or diabetics.
A good percentage of diabetics, mostly the Type II Diabetes sufferers only learn that they have this disease a little too late.
They already suffer from complications before they acquire the knowledge of how to effectively prevent this from happening or to somewhat delay as much as possible the onset of such complications.
Slow-healing foot ulcerations are one of the early complications arising from diabetes.
It can lead to gangrene and ultimately amputation for a person with diabetes if left untreated at the onset.
Diabetics are far more likely to have foot amputations than anyone else, so daily care and regular proper feet inspection by a medical professional is much required.
For the sake of information, here are the aggravating factors for foot ulcerations in diabetics: Neuropathy Neuropathy or nerve damage is a fairly common complication for diabetics especially for those who intermittently suffer from uncontrolled glucose levels over a prolonged period of time.
Diabetic nerve damages are progressive and permanent.
This can lead to pronounced loss of sensations of pain, heat and cold for the affected body part, in this case, the feet.
This can be serious because, a sufferer may already have already inflicted some considerable damage to his feet without realizing it because of loss of pain.
One may suffer some foot injury such as abrasions and cuts due to barefoot walking or infected blisters due to ill-fitting shoes and not until it become severely infected that the diabetic sufferer may take some notice.
Unfortunately for many, it may already become too late.
Poor Blood Circulation Poor blood Circulation is another effect of diabetes that can greatly hamper the ability of the injured body part especially the extremities, to fight infection and to heal.
Diabetes causes the small veins of the foot to narrow and harden thereby restricting flow of blood that carries antibodies to the damaged part.
Poor blood circulation however is not at all uncontrollable.
The patient can do some necessary measures to improve or at least prevent to aggravate further his poor circulation by not smoking and by doing some regular foot exercises recommended or approved by his foot therapists.
Proper foot care should be observed by any diabetic patient routinely and religiously.
This may require inspecting your feet everyday to lookout for blisters, cracks that may result from using ill-fitted shoes.
If the skin of your feet feel dry or is visibly cracked due to excessive dead skin, it may be because the nerves that control the flow of oil to your skin maybe damaged already.
Apply lotion to the affected part.
You must immediately consult a health professional of any unusual sensations or pain occurs.
Finally, it all boils down to proper management of your diabetes.
This is a lifelong task and the point of all these is to prevent as much as possible the onset of diabetes complications very well into old age.
Complications arising from diabetes can be varied and wide-ranging, affecting various bodily organs - from the eyes, heart and kidneys to the feet.
This is mainly because of permanent damages to the small blood vessels within these organs, poor blood circulation and neuropathy arising from the continuous ravages of diabetes over time.
The foot in particular, is a primary concern or diabetics.
A good percentage of diabetics, mostly the Type II Diabetes sufferers only learn that they have this disease a little too late.
They already suffer from complications before they acquire the knowledge of how to effectively prevent this from happening or to somewhat delay as much as possible the onset of such complications.
Slow-healing foot ulcerations are one of the early complications arising from diabetes.
It can lead to gangrene and ultimately amputation for a person with diabetes if left untreated at the onset.
Diabetics are far more likely to have foot amputations than anyone else, so daily care and regular proper feet inspection by a medical professional is much required.
For the sake of information, here are the aggravating factors for foot ulcerations in diabetics: Neuropathy Neuropathy or nerve damage is a fairly common complication for diabetics especially for those who intermittently suffer from uncontrolled glucose levels over a prolonged period of time.
Diabetic nerve damages are progressive and permanent.
This can lead to pronounced loss of sensations of pain, heat and cold for the affected body part, in this case, the feet.
This can be serious because, a sufferer may already have already inflicted some considerable damage to his feet without realizing it because of loss of pain.
One may suffer some foot injury such as abrasions and cuts due to barefoot walking or infected blisters due to ill-fitting shoes and not until it become severely infected that the diabetic sufferer may take some notice.
Unfortunately for many, it may already become too late.
Poor Blood Circulation Poor blood Circulation is another effect of diabetes that can greatly hamper the ability of the injured body part especially the extremities, to fight infection and to heal.
Diabetes causes the small veins of the foot to narrow and harden thereby restricting flow of blood that carries antibodies to the damaged part.
Poor blood circulation however is not at all uncontrollable.
The patient can do some necessary measures to improve or at least prevent to aggravate further his poor circulation by not smoking and by doing some regular foot exercises recommended or approved by his foot therapists.
Proper foot care should be observed by any diabetic patient routinely and religiously.
This may require inspecting your feet everyday to lookout for blisters, cracks that may result from using ill-fitted shoes.
If the skin of your feet feel dry or is visibly cracked due to excessive dead skin, it may be because the nerves that control the flow of oil to your skin maybe damaged already.
Apply lotion to the affected part.
You must immediately consult a health professional of any unusual sensations or pain occurs.
Finally, it all boils down to proper management of your diabetes.
This is a lifelong task and the point of all these is to prevent as much as possible the onset of diabetes complications very well into old age.
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