Diabetes and Feet

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How does Diabetes affect feet?

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So How does Diabetes affect feet?

With diabetes, people have poor blood circulation in the extremities and because of that they often can't tell if they are hurt or injured. This could be the start of infections or ulcers.

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1 in 5 People with Diabetes need to be hospitalized due to foot Problems.

Many people with diabetes have mild to severe nerve damage. Nerve damage can cause diminished feeling in the feet. As a result, you may not feel cuts, scratches, and breaks in the skin on your feet. These wounds can lead to unnoticed infection.

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Curing diabetes via surgery, without weight loss
Yet six years of medications and attempts at healthy living had failed to rein in her blood glucose, leaving Iaboni terrified that she was on course to have her kidneys fail "and my feet cut off" -- common consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.
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Yet six years of medications and attempts at healthy living had failed to rein in her blood glucose, leaving Iaboni terrified that she was on course to have her kidneys fail ``and my feet cut off'' -- common consequences of uncontrolled diabetes.
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Know when to skip it: If you are healthy, with your diabetes under control and without complications, getting a pedicure may not pose as great a threat as it does for people with diabetic foot complications. If you have decreased feeling in the feet ...

P.S. If you learn just one thing from this page, I hope it's this

One of the first ways in which diabetes may affect your feet is through the loss of sensation within your feet, often starting at the toes.

If you are noticing loss of sensation....contact you doctor.

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