Foot Health Care
Foot care in diabetics
In all the long-term complications that diabetes can cause, the effect on blood vessels (arteries) and peripheral nerves are the most common.
Involvement of the arteries causes the blood supply to certain organs evil arrives and extremities, causing undesirable effects, such as injuries to occur more easily, and delayed or poor healing of the same, if complicated by infection (also more common in diabetes), can reach the loss of fingers, the foot, and even the limb.
The nerve involvement results in decreased sensitivity, which in turn favors the occurrence of injuries with greater ease, not having the defense mechanism of pain, which will retire the end of the injurious element (eg. A source near heat).
They can also produce pain syndromes.