Diabetes - How to Heal Wounds in Diabetics

Wounds

In diabetes it is vital to treat a foot injuries right away, even minor wounds can turn into a serious foot ulcers, which can damage the foot.

Common causes: Foot ulcer can be caused from something as simple as walking in new or tight-fitting shoes or getting a small table stuck in the shoe. Diabetic people, may get a kind of nerve damage, that stops the diabetic feeling in their feet. Doctors call this a neuropathy.

Diabetics, if can't feel their feet, they may not know that their hurt, and a small cut or sore can turn into something bigger or diabetics might have poor blood flow to the feet, which makes it hard for even minor cuts to heal.

Acute wounds heal in a timely manner, chronic wounds don't heal properly causing complications.

Wounds are divided into categories that include arterial pressure ulcers, neuropathic ulcers and surgical wounds. Depth denotes the thickness of the wound, partial thickness involves a tissue damage that stays on the top layer of the skin. Wounds with partial thickness depth includes blisters.

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Full thickness penetrates the deepest layer of the skin, wounds with full thickness depth, move beyond the skin into muscle, tendon, bones or subcutaneous tissue and cause greater danger.

Treat the wound quickly clean by running clean water on the wound, to remove any dirt or particles apply antibiotic ointment on to the wound, putting antibiotic ointment on a wound may prevents infection,cover the wound with a sterilized bandage. The bandage retains medication and prevents some germs or bacteria from entering the wounds.

Inspect the wound regularly, while changing this sterilized bandage look for any signs of any infection, which includes leaking fluid, swelling or spreading redness in the area around the wound.

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Consult a physician to undergo physical examinations. Follow the doctor's treatment orders, make a regular follow-up to make sure the wound heals properly.

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