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Diabetic Foot |
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| Long term diabetes can result in changes in peripheral nerves caused the resistant of the foot decreases or is lost. If a wound is received (for example: ill fitting shoes, clipping the toenails, corn removal, walking barefoot or if it is a cold day and a hot water bottle is compressed to the foot, etc.) the patient may not realize (healthy people’s bodies will respond with redness, swelling, heat, and painful inflammation) then it is easier for a diabetic to have narrow or blocked blood vessels in the lower limbs, therefore there is a reduction in the amount of blood flowing to the feet. The previously mentioned situations make diabetic person easier for serious infections to arise in the foot, and the wounds or ulcers do not heal as well.
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Symptoms: |
| According to overseas statistics, possibly 15% of diabetics die due to a full-blown ulceration, 25% of patients will be hospitalized because of a diagnosis of an advanced ulceration or merging infection. Among 85% of serious amputations (below or above the knee) had not reached the stage of an advanced ulceration, moreover they had not completed the treatment process. In other words, if a diabetic ulceration is handled properly serious amputation can effectively be avoided.
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| The image on the left shows the thermal response of a healthy person’s foot, it can clearly be seen that the temperature of both feet are nearly identical. However in the right image it can clearly be observed that the temperature in the toe is unusually low, this signifies that the blood circulation in this location has nearly stopped and needs to be addressed, after appraisal in a worse case scenario amputation may be a possibility in order to reduce the spread of the condition.
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