Diabetes care wear new shoes, actually caused by amputation
Posted on January 3, 2010
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Filial daughter, enjoying the cool shade expected that before the Chinese New Year to the old and the father bought a new pair of shoes has become a “killer” – the elderly two toes decayed! February 15, reporters at the 7th People’s Hospital of Shenyang City interview that, since the Spring Festival, “diabetic foot” patients crowding together.
67-year-old Zou Grandpa diabetes, usually very attentive to three meals a day, quite in a stable condition control. Before the Spring Festival, filial daughter bought a new pair of shoes as a gift to his father. A week ago, the elderly came to visit relatives at home, felt his right foot two toes, especially pain thought it was a walk go for a long time, hastened to hot blisters. Unexpectedly, these two toes are getting redness, pain. Old people thought it was caused by new shoes pinch, rest a few days yet to alleviate the symptoms.
“Elderly people suffer from diabetes, simply do not fit through the tight narrow shoes, narrow shoes easy Jishang because the skin, causing diabetic foot.” The day 7th People’s Hospital of Shenyang City Department of Endocrinology, Chang-Zheng, director of presentations, the Spring Festival after suffering “Diabetic Foot” and increasing patient. She explained that because of vascular and diabetic neuropathy, lower extremity sensory diminish or disappear, local resistance weakened, small wounds, such as the sub-shoes squeeze the foot, partial emergence calluses corns not handled properly, the skin can be a minor trauma cause an infection. As the pain diminished or disappeared, patients are often unable to detect lesions, and diabetic patients sweat for the bacteria in the glucose provided a good living environment, so that the rapid expansion of the wound, resulting in foot infection, foot ulcers, gangrene and other toe heel the occurrence of diabetic foot, often had to face a serious amputation outcome.
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