Diabetes Know How

Diabetes And Your Feet

October 7, 2007 – 9:02 am

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Did you know that Diabetes increases your risk of having problems with your feet that may eventually lead to amputation? It’s a diabetes side effect that still doesn’t seem to get enough attention from both the medical community and the media.

As a diabetic, your body is unable to regulate glucose levels on its own. The resulting high blood sugar levels can damage your blood vessels over time. One of the first things to suffer is proper circulation and blood flow to the feet. For some diabetic patients this results in a numbing of the feet, for others, something as simple as a stubbed toe will eventually lead to infections and down the road, if the toe or foot doesn’t heal properly, amputation.

Our approach to this problem should be two-fold. As a diabetic, it is important to check your feet regularly, and also have your doctor take a close look for any potential problems at every doctor’s visit.

Once a foot sore or injury on the foot occurs, your best chance for saving the limb is to have a podiatrist and a vascular surgeon work together. The reason wounds don’t properly heal is because the blood supply to the feet is limited by clogged and damaged arteries. The vascular specialist will be able to unclog or repair the damage and ensure that enough blood is transported to the area to make healing possible.

Without it your chances of healing don’t look to great. What follows is an excerpt from an article by the associated press.

Amputation may end the grueling cycle of unhealing wounds and infection on one limb. But those patients still face grim odds. About half will develop ulcers and infections in the remaining foot, and undergo more amputations. And within five years, more than 40 percent are dead.

You can read the rest of the article here.

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