Presumably, all diabetics should have heard of a complication related to diabetes: diabetic foot!
Many sugar friends can't understand this, knowing that they are just blood sugar metabolism disorders, why will they cause harm to the feet?
First of all, whether it is type 1 or type 2 diabetes, there is no complete cure in the clinic so far, so diabetes can be seen as a lifelong metabolic disease characterized by chronic hyperglycemia.
However, its terrible point is not the rise in blood sugar itself, but the complications caused by high blood sugar, and its related complications have reached more than 100, and diabetic foot is just one of them.
The foot is actually a very complex target organ of diabetes, a multi-system disease, if the diabetic patient has not been found, no treatment, or long-term blood glucose control is not good.
Continuously rising blood glucose levels, will cause damage to the patient's peripheral nerves, peripheral vascular system, and reduce the patient's immune function, once peripheral neuropathy, peripheral blood vessels appear diseased and combined with too high mechanical pressure, it will cause damage to foot soft tissue, bone and joint, and then induce a series of foot problems, clinically called this disease: diabetic foot.
So the question is, what is the harm of diabetic foot, will it lead to amputation of the patient's limb?
Many foot complications in diabetic patients occur due to sensory neuropathy and mild autonomic and motor neuropathy.
After sensory neuropathy, patients may have excessive mechanical pressure on the foot, lack of normal neuroprotective mechanisms in the foot, and constant damage to the tissues of the foot, leading to the formation of ulcers;
At the same time, autonomic nervous system lesions will also affect the normal perspiration regulation function, temperature regulation and blood transport regulation of the skin, resulting in poorer and worse flexibility of local tissues, lower and lower temperature perception, making the foot skin more likely to break and crack, and due to the impact of functional damage, foot ulcers are often difficult to heal.
Not only that, autonomic dysfunction can also cause damage to the soft tissues of the skin, causing exogenous bacteria to invade the foot. Moreover, due to the higher glucose content in the blood, this is more conducive to the growth and reproduction of bacteria.
Affected by reduced partial pressure of oxygen, malnutrition and other aspects, the patient's foot tissue edema is more and more serious, and the tissue has a large amount of acid accumulation, which will not only accelerate the reproduction of bacteria, but also hinder the function of white blood cells, so that bacteria can not be effectively removed, and even cause the emergence of osteomyelitis.
After losing pain sensation and proprioception, the foot is repeatedly mechanically damaged, and single trauma may occur, and over time, the patient may have Chalcot arthropathy, resulting in more severe bone destruction and toe deformity.
Once part of the tissue is completely gangrene, the patient needs to face the fate of amputation. Relevant research surveys have shown that patients who are prone to amputation due to diabetes are 10 to 20 times more non-diabetic.
It can be seen that the continuous development of diabetic feet is indeed at risk of amputation, which has a great impact on the quality of life of patients. And so far, the clinic has not completely cured diabetic foot and diabetes in a way.
Therefore, in order to reduce the chance of future complications, the first thing patients should do now is to actively carry out blood sugar control treatment according to the doctor's recommendations. Only by stabilizing glycemic control can the possibility of complications be minimized.