Diabetic skin lesions common
Posted on December 10, 2009
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Diabetes is a common disease. Now it’s incidence rate in China has been as high as 2%. Patients due to lack of insulin secretion, will cause blood sugar is too high and the emergence of urine. The patient’s symptoms how to drink, eat, polyuria, and fatigue, weight loss and so on. Seriously ill, they can affect the patient’s life. After suffering from diabetes, 30% ~ 80% of patients with skin damage. If these skin lesions, often a precursor to diabetes, so to arouse people’s attention. Here are some common skin lesion diabetes.
Skin infection
Diabetes when the patient’s blood sugar, skin tissue glycogen content also increased, disturbing the mold, bacterial infection and create a good environment.
1 / 3 of diabetic patients with complicated skin infections. For example, patients often suffer from swollen boils, folliculitis, impetigo and carbuncle and other bacterial infections. Patients with diabetes in the oral area saw a “thrush.” Thrush is a known as “Candida” and fungal infections. Candida infection can also occur in fingernails, male external genitalia glans penis. The skin disease psoriasis is caused due to fungal infection. Hand-diabetic patients prone to ringworm, tinea corporis, tinea cruris, tinea pedis and other diseases.
Pruritus
Patients with diabetes mellitus combined with skin itching, accounting for patient 1 / 5. This itching is a systemic nature, and very stubborn. In the early stage of diabetes, this itching is more common. When a patient after treatment, his condition has eased significantly, when the skin itching may gradually disappear.
Paresthesia
1 / 10 diabetic patients suffering from peripheral nerve lesions. For example, paresthesia, including the skin, numbness, pins and needles, pain or burning feeling, etc., especially in the patient’s foot, more likely to paresthesia. So, some patients did not find diabetes before the first dermatologist regularly check. Some patients with lower extremity to reduce sweating or no sweat; when the humidity increased, the patient increased sweating in other parts.
Bullous disease of diabetic
Bullous disease is a diabetic patient occurs in hands and feet at the skin complications. Such blisters suddenly, does not have any recurring symptoms. Blister size, thin-walled blisters, blisters is to clarify within the liquid blisters the outside did not flush. After several weeks you can usually self-healing, or dissipated in the skin pigmentation on the left there. This bullous disease often occurs in a long duration of diabetes, the body in poor condition, and patients with serious complications, so the patient’s prognosis is poor, and even cause deaths.
Diabetic xanthoma
Diabetic xanthoma is a knee, elbow, back or buttocks of the skin, sudden appearance of groups of particles from the size of a grain of rice to the bean yellow papules or small lump (medically known as “nodules”). This xanthoma surface gloss, generally do not itch and other symptoms, feels a little hard than the surrounding skin.
Diabetic rash
This skin change, occurred in the leg in front. The beginning of a round or oval dark red papules, diameter of only 0.3 centimeters. Some of these papules scattered there, while others cluster together, the surface there is dander. After the rash subsided, the skin will appear on the partial atrophy or pigmentation.
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