What is diabetes?
đŸ‘‰Diabetes is a disorder where the body does not produce insulin or does not use it efficiently is a metabolic disease that causes high blood sugar.
Untreated high blood sugar from diabetes can damage your nerves, eyes, kidneys, and other organs. Most of the diabetic patients don’t even know if the blood sugar is not in control it affects the whole body sooner or later.
Diabetes not only affects our brain and body mostly, it affects our legs worstly. Often many people misunderstand that walking barefoot on the grass gives great benefits to the diabetic patient, especially the feet. If there is pain and tingling in the feet due to walking, then it is ignored. People do not understand that the carelessness taken by the patient can become the direct cause of his disability. Leave the feet, people are not serious about controlling the amount of sugar in their blood and the result is that the uncontrolled amount of sugar in the blood goes on increasing day by day.
How diabetes damages the feet :-
If the pain emerges from walking and the pain becomes unbearable due to excessive walking, then the diabetic patient should understand that the health of his legs or feet is not good. In diabetes, two things cause the most damage to the feet – one is neuropathy and the other is a decrease in the amount of pure blood going to the legs. Due to the continuous accumulation of fat and calcium inside the tube, there is a narrowing in the tube. The result is that the supply of blood to the legs gets interrupted. If prevention is not done on time, the blood supply stops completely, which is a serious condition.
The second enemy is neuropathy :-
Neuropathy (sensory and motor) engulfs the feet of a diabetic patient, due to which the problem of tingling in the feet, especially in the soles and heels, and the pain increases with walking.
Dryness of feet are dangerous :-
In diabetes, excessive dryness occurs in the feet and skin of the feet. Due to this, cracks and pits are formed in the skin, which become a cause of infection in the feet. Diabetic Autonomic Neuropathy occurs, due to which the glands that produce sweat and lubricate the skin stop working properly. Due to this dryness and bursting, early wounds are formed in the feet of diabetic patients and the infection reaches inside.It is very difficult to bring the infection under control. Sometimes an operation is also needed.
When do bunions form in feet :-
In diabetes, the pressure on the bones of the foot increases due to weakening of the muscles. Bunions are formed at the places of pressure in the skin, due to which the patient feels as if a pebble or small stone is placed inside the shoe. Due to this the pain in the feet becomes unbearable and the possibility of infection increases.
Important advice:-
Diabetes patients should always get their feet checked by a vascular surgeon regularly every three months. If blisters and red rashes are seen in the feet at any stage, then immediately consult a vascular surgeon, this is the only way to protect the foot.
Main treatment techniques :-
In diabetes, to prevent amputation of the feet, bypass surgery of the legs is required, so that the blood supply to the feet can be increased, which helps in healing the wound.
Prevention :-
• Diabetes patients should never walk barefoot inside and outside the house and never wear shoes without socks.
• Special types of socks and shoes are available for diabetics, for which consult a vascular surgeon.
• Always keep the feet clean and moisture free. Always control the amount of glucose in the blood.
• Diabetes patients should walk at least 5-6 kms daily. Regular walking is the best way to increase the pure blood supply to the feet and reduce the effects of neuropathy on the feet.
• Protect the skin of the legs from dryness and dryness and do not allow bunions to grow.
