Zhuzhou Daily, Handheld Zhuzhou News (Reporter / Correspondent Liu Qiong / Shang Kejun) “I didn’t expect that a fire could burn my toes.” The 50-year-old Aunt Yuan was a little depressed when she mentioned her experience.
Aunt Yuan has been suffering from diabetes for more than 20 years. Some time ago, due to the cold weather, she had to cook a fire at home every day. Unexpectedly, when she was washing her feet, she found that her two big toes were burned, and the burned part in front of the toes was like a black coin. Later, she came to the Municipal Traditional Chinese Medicine Traumatology Hospital for treatment.
“She belongs to a typical diabetic foot. Due to the lesions of the nerves around her feet, her pain sensation is slow.” Li Kanggui, director of the Department of Chiropractic and Traumatology of the Municipal Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, introduced that they removed the toes for Aunt Yuan. The necrotic part of the patient was treated with local external application of traditional Chinese medicine, and hypoglycemic measures were also taken.
At present, Auntie Yuan is recovering.
Li Kanggui said that burns and scalds for diabetic foot patients like Ms. Yuan are not uncommon in clinical practice. According to relevant data, 20 out of 100 diabetic patients will have diabetic foot. He suggested that diabetic foot patients should not bake fire or soak their feet, so as not to burn themselves without knowing it.