Stop diabetic: how to treat?

One of the complications that occur in people with diabetes is called a "diabetic foot". It is expressed in the development on the foot of a diabetic patient of pathological processes, as a result of which gangrene can begin, and then an amputation of the limb is required .

It should be noted that approximately 85-90% of people with type II diabetes have a complication such as a diabetic foot. Development of the disease begins, usually after 15-25 years of diabetic experience and leads to disability of the patient.

Causes of complications

The diabetic foot develops due to complex processes that take place in the body suffering from diabetes mellitus. Because of jumps in the level of sugar, the blood vessels of the body are gradually destroyed: first it happens with the capillaries, and then the entire circulatory system and nerve endings are destroyed. As a result, metabolism is disturbed both in tissues and on the skin surface.

The patient complains of the dryness of the skin, but on the feet there are also thickening - omozolennost or fungus damage. As a result, the skin often cracks and heals for a very long time, which is dangerous by penetrating an infection that can cause inflammation.

Symptoms of the diabetic foot

You should know that they can be different. They depend mainly on the stage of diabetes in the patient. However, the process of development of pathology can be divided into such stages:

- Zero stage - the foot deforms, there is homogenization, with no ulcers observed.

- The first stage - on the surface of the skin appears a sore.

- The second stage - the spread of the ulcer deep down, with the defeat of the tendon, muscle, cellulose.

- The third stage is the deepening of the ulcer to the bone itself.

- The onset of gangrene development.

- The gangrene develops and goes to the lower leg and above.

Diabetic foot: treatment

This complication is treated both conservatively and in combination with surgical methods.

As for conservative treatment, it can include such means as:

• Antibiotics;
• Normalization of sugar in the blood;
• Painkillers and drugs that improve blood flow;
• Antibacterial and antiseptic drugs.

During surgery, the following operations are performed in the desired combination:

• The area damaged by necrosis is removed;
• Endarterectomy and angioplasty;
• Bypass autovenoznoe;
• Stenting of arteries that pass in the lower limbs;
• Removal of the gangrenous area;
• Limb amputation.

Diabetic foot: treatment with folk remedies

No matter how they say that folk remedies are very good at treating such a disease as a diabetic foot, we do not recommend relying on them. It is better to combine all the same with proven grandmother's medicines.

Remember that if you suffer from diabetes, then try to go to the doctor as often as possible. This will help prevent the development of a complication of the disease, such as a diabetic foot.