Causes of Diabetic Foot

 
With the presence of diabetes for a long time, morbidity occur in the tissues of the body slowly and to varying degrees, and the most important causes of diabetic foot:
o neuropathy: nerve damage can reduce the sense of feeling and pain resulting in a hurt foot injury without the patient feels
o ischemia: the blood supply to the foot is weak and inadequate as a result of weakness or blockage of the arteries feeding the feet are foot display to the risk of tissue damage, slows healing wounds, and when a part of the foot  effect with  death and becomes black this is what  called gangrene
o foot skin is always dry and cracks, causing inflammation and ulcers of bacterial
o bacterial infection: When bacteria enter the skin cracks and cause bacterial pneumonia
o Walking barefoot
o not to wear the right shoes
o Foot deformities

Last Update
2/28/2011 6:44:32 AM