treatment. For risk factors of diabetic foot disease in patients with diabetic foot disease to enhance preventive education is also crucial.
My father was suffering from diabetes ten years, in May last year, one day, suddenly found that his left foot at the feet toe in black, which frightened us, and immediately sent his father to the hospital for treatment, diagnosis
of diabetes, gangrene, doctors at that time his father on the proposed black toes amputated.
Cut-off toe, which his father is far too difficult to accept, why treatment should do the toes amputated? "I Jiubu Xin, my feet cure!" As the fear of doing cut-off toe surgery, his father out of the hospital.
After returning home, his father heard that their feet or effect of Chinese herbal medicine quite good, but a three-month consecutive bubbles are ineffective. By August, due to hot weather, his father left foot developed
gangrene from a toe or two, three, four toes, and toes inflammation, redness, pain, and sometimes so painful that I could not sleep at night. Thus, we turn the father admitted to the hospital, although doctors and we are
strongly persuaded his father did not dare to do cut-off toe surgery, plus see the roommate of fellow patients for three years due to amputation, the wound is not healed, and a taxi ran back in fear of their own home after
home to their feet.
But not long before his father the entire foot all the black, but also with the stench, desperation, had surgery a week later. Originally thought to do the surgery, the father will be able to overcome the difficulties, Shuiliao his
father after a high fever, body swelling, severe coma, after a final rescue to save his life, but his left leg below the knee has been truncated.
Expert Comments
People's Liberation Army 306 Hospital, vice president of the Zhang-Rong Xu, director of diabetes
In fact, this patient's amputation is completely avoidable. If the diagnosis of diabetes, gangrene after actively improve lower limb blood supply, based on the time left in the toe amputated, while a good infection control and
other factors, the patient may avoid the parts of the amputated above the ankle. This will impact the quality of life in patients with less.
The story, the patient saw the sufferers amputation wound is not healed after three years, increasing the fear of amputation. In fact, the wounds difficult to heal, not the inevitable result of amputation. Although the diabetic
wounds compared to normal more difficult to heal, but as long as the lower limb blood supply is good, good blood glucose control, bearing in mind control or to prevent local infection, healing will be no problem.
If the foot to protect well, early detection of ulceration, the patient could also avoid the initial toe gangrene. All patients with diabetes should be to strengthen the foot protection awareness, old age, longer duration,
complications are many and serious, long-term smoking, foot abnormalities in patients with partial and even more so, once the signs of foot ulcers, etc., should be immediately to the diabetes specialist treatment.
Diabetic foot is a common complication of diabetes, treatment difficult, maiming and killing the high rate of health care is expensive, which will reduce mortality rates of diabetic foot disability, the key is early, the scientific
treatment. For risk factors of diabetic foot disease in patients with diabetic foot disease to enhance preventive education is also crucial.
