and care of the foot, so that it will happen ulcers, gangrene, a serious need for amputations. For a diabetic, the cure of foot ulcers, and treatment of
other organs, like disease, combined treatment should be taken. Medical nutrition therapy is a comprehensive treatment of an important part of diabetic foot,
but it is often patients, and even doctors ignored.
In fact, the importance of nutrition therapy for patients with diabetes. Through nutrition therapy to achieve, maintain or improve the overall health status:
1, through the use of insulin (endogenous or exogenous insulin), oral hypoglycemic agents and sports to make a balance of food intake, so as to achieve and
maintain blood sugar control target range.
2, so that to achieve the desired level of blood lipids.
3, through the ingestion of a suitable heat to maintain the ideal weight for adults to meet children, young people of normal growth and development,
diabetes, pregnancy and breast-feeding women, metabolic needs, illness or wound a variety of nutrients needed for recovery.
4, to eliminate, prevent, delay or control of nutrition-related risk factors and complications (such as low blood sugar, short-term illness), sports-related
problems, kidney disease, autonomic neuropathy, hypertension, cardiovascular and peripheral vascular disease and skin ulceration and so on.
If you are currently suffering from diabetic foot disease, we must bear in mind the nutritional treatment of wounds, some of the basic principles:
1, the wound site must have a suitable micro-circulation;
2, the wound must be kept clean, can not have pollution;
3, wound necrosis organizations must be removed or reduced to a minimum;
4, the wound must not be infected;
5, where skin diseases must be controlled or cured;
6, the friction of the wound, or direct compression must be controlled to a minimum;
7, wounds of the external environment can not be too dry and wet;
8, the patient's nutrition, metabolism and drug must remain stable.
