How is diabetic foot induced, how to identify, and how to prevent?
11 life details that may lead to diabetic foot
- smoking;
- cut corns or calluses on your feet at home, or use products that treat corns or warts;
- Use a razor or scissors to treat toenails that have grown into the fold;
- Heating your feet with a hot water bottle or electric blanket;
- Apply a cream or lotion between your toes;
- bath or soak your feet in hot water;
- Walking barefoot indoors or outdoors;
- wear tight socks;
- Wear tight shoes, that is, shoes that do not allow the toes to move freely;
- Wear high heels that compress the toes; span>
- Sit for a long time without any activity for more than 1 hour;
What symptoms suggest a possible diabetic foot?
Symptoms of peripheral neuropathy: If the foot has numbness, ant walking, insect crawling, Fever, electric shock-like feeling, often ascending from the distal toes to the knee, the patient has a feeling of wearing socks and gloves, which can be bilateral, unilateral, symmetrical, or asymmetrical, but bilateral symmetry is more common .
Symptoms of peripheral vascular disease: Cold legs, feet, weakness, drowsiness, poor walking, The feeling of fatigue aggravated while walking, disappeared after 2-3 minutes of rest, and intermittent claudication may occur.
Foot changes: Lower extremity skin temperature, skin color changes, and arterial pulsation diminished or absent.
If you have similar symptoms, you should be actively treated to avoid further development of the disease, and please seek medical attention in time.
To prevent diabetic foot, be sure to do these 3 things
1. Control blood sugar, blood pressure, blood lipids, quit smoking, etc.
2. Come to the hospital regularly to check your feet.
3. Once the skin of the foot is blistered, cut or scratched, the color of the skin on the foot changes sharply, local pain aggravates and there is a Inflammatory manifestations such as redness and swelling, new ulcers or deterioration of existing superficial ulcers, etc., should seek medical attention immediately.
Author: Yu Yijiang, Xu Xing, Department of Endocrinology, Huaian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine