Diabetic Most Five foot problems

Diabetes is a disease in the body is not able to properly filter glucose levels, which leads to damage to the nerves and blood vessels. When this damage, the main problems, nerve damage and poor blood flow. These conditions can cause many foot problems diabetes.

¨     Neuropathy

Also called neuropathy, diabetic neuropathy. When you have neuropathy, decreasing your sensation of pain in the feet. This can be the loss of the sensation of pain by step informed a painful blister, skin rashes or a story until it's infected. Neuropathy affects the amount of moisture to the skin and can cause dry, cracked feet. You can also catch these cracks.

¨     Peripheral vascular disease

Damage to the blood vessels or peripheral vascular disease, leading to poor circulation to the legs and feet. This condition has an impact on how well your body will be able to heal the cut or blister. Also, that smoking reduces blood flow to your extremities and exacerbated the lack of blood flow.

¨     Potential problems

Neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease and work together to create major problems. For example, you have a rock in your shoes, but you don't feel it's under the big toe due to neuropathy. The end of the day, you have a blister on the big toe and that healing is not good for the lack of blood flow to your foot. Infected blister, and feed the excess glucose in the blood (due to diabetes) spores on infected toe. In the case of non-healing wound, can turn into gangrene. If the doctor is unable to prevent it from spreading, you will need to have your toe, foot, or part of a leg amputated. Gangrene is a condition where the staining of skin and flesh around the wound and dies.

¨     Fabric

The fabric on the feet are also common when you have diabetes, usually caused by bad shoes. The fabric should be forbidden to form in the first place, thanks to pumice stone gently while your skin hydrated. Rub lotion on your feet immediately after using pumice. The fabric should be treated by a doctor. If left without proper care, you can get the thick fabric and fall off, leaving an open wound in the skin and become infected.

¨     Prevention/resolution

How to avoid diabetic foot problems? Stop smoking. Buy comfortable shoes, well. Check your feet every day, preferably in the evening after a long day of use. Look for redness, sores, cracks, blisters, calluses, cuts and rashes. If you don't bend down to take a look at your feet, use a mirror, or better yet, ask someone to check on you. Wash your feet daily in warm water, avoid hot water, because it dries out the skin. Rub the lotion well; make sure the foot completely dry before putting socks and shoes. Make sure that the area between the toes dry as well. Use a pumice stone in the Web every day. Cut nails, or a professional to do the right way to avoid injury to the skin. Wear socks or shoes or slippers to protect your feet. Get the right amount of exercise every day to maintain the circulation of your feet.sMust be under the care of a doctor to help protect your feet from the diabetic foot problems.