and nutrients your feet. This will make the leg edema, pain and lacerations, etc. is more difficult to restore. Secondly, diabetes caused by nerve damage,
neuropathy that is whole body will make your feet numb. When you can not feel when the cuts and blisters, ulcers and infection is more likely to happen in
your feet.
If you did not notice or do not treat leg ulcers, they will become the depth of infection, then that time you have to amputated. It is a cruel fact: diabetes
occurs toes, feet, legs, low risk of amputation is ten times normal.
Diabetic neuropathy may also cause whole body of severe foot pain. You may have a slight contact with all their sensitivity, such as contact with the bed
sheets.
Fortunately, a little warm and caring will greatly help you avoid foot problems caused by diabetes.
10 Tips to protect your feet
Tips 1: Check your feet every day
Carefully check your feet every day, but must remember to check all the part between the toes. Edema and infection in the toe area between the start, but
because of diabetic neuropathy, you may have to wait until they deteriorated to a very serious extent only way you can find. If you check the patient makes
that you can not bend over, you can call your family to help.
Tips 2: Use warm water instead of hot water footbath
Daily with warm water (not hot!!!)'s Feet. Your feet may not feel the heat of water, so the first try using your hands. Remember not to dip too long, because
the soaking water is more difficult to heal ulcers. Dried immediately after washing feet, remember to gently wipe away all of the site between the toes.
Tips 3: Make sure your shoes just right
This is a value investment. Even the slightest friction, or did not fit the shoe will cause a swelling and then began to infection has evolved into a cure
for ulcers. Therefore, even if only felt a little bit of red, you have to be more for a pair of shoes, or try other socks, because when that erythema become
serious, you feel for. In a pair of shoes, or tried before, to double-check pair of shoes, see if there is rough seams, sharp edges or other shoes to your
feet will hurt things. Pair of shoes could have been used to wear a bad ending.
Tips 4: Do not bare feet
Should always wear shoes, slippers, is required. To wear socks when wearing shoes, as leather, plastics and synthetic materials, which can irritate the skin
and shoes quickly lead to edema. When you want to select stockings, nylon knee socks, thin socks, you will find that they do not give your feet adequate
protection. Point to wear thick socks, overshadowed your knees.
Tips 5: speak out with impunity
Nerve damage is unpredictable. If your toes, feet or legs, the feeling has changed and quickly with your doctor. Feel pain, tingling, numbness, or there is
something else unusual signal, hurry with your doctor, even if you think it is only a small problem like to say. Low potential amputation how small things
can not be negligent.
Tips 6: Keep the skin dry soft
High blood sugar levels can cause your skin dry. Skin split means that bacteria grow more easily under the skin, the infection more difficult to cure later.
Smear a small amount of lotion every day to ensure that your feet dry - not wet non-stick - but do not put lotion between toes get the site. After using the
lotion you will find it easy to trim toenails, as lotion to soften your skin. Foot stone bath with Cuo feet away corns and cocoon.
Tips 7: do non-impact athletes
Swimming, cycling, yoga and tai chi is a very popular sport, and for your feet would not have a huge impact. Movement at the beginning of the implementation
of the program before you to ask your doctor.
Tips 8: cure your Beam bursitis, corns and hammer-shaped toes
If your big toe tilt very powerful, but there is still swelling in the toe section, then you have bursitis of the toe. Corn is a thick, rough skin friction
extruded continuous formation of small round lumps. Mallet toes, it is because of diabetes, muscle atrophy caused by nerve damage caused. All of these are
very difficult to make you comfortable shoes. Fortunately, podiatry doctors will be able to help you treat these diseases, so that your feet get better care.
Tips 9: Consider the appropriate appliance
If you have diabetic nerve pain or your muscles due to nerve damage and atrophy, foot disease you can find a doctor to give you with a suitable appliance. If
the pain or atrophy is very serious so you will not even find it difficult to walk, you should consider retaining Socks or appliance of. These devices
podiatry doctors most familiar with.
10 Tips: Control your blood sugar
Finally, the best treatment for neuropathic pain is to handle your diabetes. In fact, the American Diabetes Association did in 2006, studies have shown that
intensive insulin therapy with blood glucose control can reduce the 64% likelihood of occurring whole body neuropathy. Although you can not control the
occurrence of diabetic neuropathy whole body or not, but you pass control diet, increasing exercise, if necessary medical treatment can also be used to
control your blood sugar levels.
Feet are the source of mankind's self-reliance - at least is the foundation. Therefore, the daily care of your feet every day gave them love, care, health
check call a doctor to help you check the feet to avoid missing any details of their own.
