Diabetes should be familiar to everyone, when mentioning this disease, we can think of obesity, blood sugar rise, but for healthy people, everyone seems to be unaware of the harm behind diabetes.
Do you think that diabetics fall into despair after being diagnosed with fear of rising blood sugar? wrong!
What really makes sugar friends afraid is never the elevated blood sugar itself, but the various complications caused by poor blood sugar control.
So far, there are more than 100 complications related to diabetes, including cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, kidney diseases, diabetic feet and so on. And, once diabetic complications arise, medication is often difficult to reverse!
Take diabetic foot disease, its disease is based on the fact that patients have appeared peripheral neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease, with the continuous development of the disease, foot soft tissue, bone and joint system is gradually destroyed, and then developed into a series of foot problems.
In the initial stages, the patient may simply develop pain, and then gradually develop ulcers, infections, vascular disease, joint lesions, bone lesions, and in severe cases, even amputations due to diabetic foot!
So the question is, diabetics have felt foot discomfort, what should be done to delay the development of diabetic feet?
1. Blood sugar control treatment
We should clearly understand that no matter what kind of diabetes complications appear, they are actually based on high blood sugar. To prevent diabetic foot, the first thing patients should do is to actively treat high blood sugar.
After the diagnosis is confirmed, the patient should take oral hypoglycemic drugs or inject insulin according to the doctor's recommendations, and regularly monitor blood glucose, and then cooperate with exercise, diet and other adjustment methods to keep blood sugar in a stable state;
2. Maintain the foot
Diabetic patients have laid the foundation for the onset of diabetic foot after the appearance of peripheral nerve and vascular damage, and patients may initially have foot stocking-like symptoms, after which the perception ability becomes worse and worse, the flexibility of local tissues is reduced, and it is easy to cause damage.
Therefore, it is necessary to learn to protect the foot at this stage, and the patient should choose comfortable and breathable shoes and socks, and check the feet and shoes every day to do a good job of foot protection and hygiene cleaning;
3. Symptomatic treatment
If the patient has obvious foot symptoms, such as pain, ulcers, etc., the patient should not avoid medical treatment, but should actively seek medical treatment.
For example, after the ulcer appears, active intervention should be carried out to care for the ulcer wound, and after the infection, the wound should be debridement and anti-infection treatment should be carried out in time. After the combination of Charcot arthropathy, conservative treatment can be carried out according to the doctor's recommendation, etc.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, once diabetic complications appear, it is difficult to achieve reversal, even if the patient treats the complications, because diabetes itself can not be cured, so the complications will persist, in the case of improper blood sugar control, and even more and more serious, so that patients to the point of irreparability.
Therefore, in clinical view, the preventive significance of diabetic foot is far more important than the treatment after diagnosis. After the diagnosis of diabetes, everyone should be prepared to prevent future complications, actively cooperate with doctors for treatment, and conduct targeted examinations on a regular basis. Once there is a similar manifestation of diabetic foot, it is necessary to seek medical treatment as soon as possible.