Foot Health Tips & Care » diabetic foot http://www.foothealthtips.com All about your foot! Tue, 29 Sep 2009 07:09:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Diabetic Foot Ulcer http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-ulcer.php http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-ulcer.php#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 12:53:08 +0000 jk http://www.foothealthtips.com/?p=136 Diabetic foot ulcer is one of the major complications  of Diabetes Mellitus and this leads to amputation of the concerned portion in at least 85% cases. The major reason of mortality in such cases is due to the complications developed in vascular regions both major and minor. Diabetes impairs the ability of the body to grow new tissues as it prevents the flow of oxygen to the tissue.

This is due to the inflammation of the wound and as such causes swelling of the region inhabiting repair.Granulation tissue formation is prevented and there is  a lose in wound tensile strength in patients suffering from diabetes. The major risk factors include smoking, heavy drinking and other factors related to smoking.

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]]> http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-ulcer.php/feed 0 Diabetic Foot and Prevention http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-and-prevention.php http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-and-prevention.php#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 10:29:22 +0000 jk http://www.foothealthtips.com/?p=131 Diabetic Foot is a term that commonly encompasses a number of foot problems related to diabetes mellitus. The reason stems from the fact that their could be abnormalities in the artery leading to its rupture and the neurons could also be affected due to it.

The delay caused in the healing of the wound causes infection and can lead to gangrene. Around ten to fifteen percent of patients suffering from diabetes at some point in their time suffer from some problem related to their foot. Fifty percent of problems related with diabetes are related with foot andthey account for many hospital admissions.

Prevention is better than cure and methods to prevent include frequent check ups to a chiropodist, maintaining healthy life style, usage of diabetic socks and shoes and the most important of all avoiding injury. Some studies suggest that there is very little effect in the usage of custom made shoes.

Injuries to neurons seem to be one reason why shoes custom made for diabetic patients are recommended as this could result in reduction in injuries to the foot.

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]]> http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-and-prevention.php/feed 0 Diabetic Foot and Treatment http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-and-treatment.php http://www.foothealthtips.com/diabetic-foot-and-treatment.php#comments Sat, 22 Aug 2009 14:25:38 +0000 jk http://www.foothealthtips.com/?p=134 Treatment for Diabetic Foot requires the expertise of many specialists including diabetes specialists and surgeons. Treatment consists of antibiotics against staphylococcus, streptococcus and anaerobe strains. Removal of skin debris and also arterial revascularisation to increase the flow of blood.It is believed that nitric oxide is highly effective in the healing of wounds due to diabetes. The reason is that that nitric oxide is  powerful vasodilator helping in bring oxygen to tissues speeding up healing. Light therapy such as LLLT are also used to  treat diabetic ulcers. Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy is found to be effective and the need to amputate is greatly decreased as this improves healing. The problem with this treatment facility is that it is expensive.

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