What does diabetic oedema symptom have?

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Diabetic foot is a common complication of diabetes. Once it occurs, it poses a very serious threat to the foot health of patients. Many patients are amputated every year. What are the symptoms of diabetic edema?, I hope it can help you:

What does diabetic oedema symptom have?

The initial symptoms of diabetic foot: most patients have itchy skin, cool extremities, dull sensation and edema, followed by continuous numbness of double legged sock style, most of them can have decreased or disappeared pain, and a few of them have needling, knife cutting and burning pain at the affected area, which is aggravated at night or in case of heat, walking in duck steps or leaning on a stick. Some elderly patients have a history of severe limb ischemia, such as intermittent claudication, Rest pain, etc.

In the middle stage of diabetic foot onset, the patient's feet began to appear edema, and the lower limbs and feet became smaller. Scattered blisters, ecchymosis, ecchymosis, pigmentation of different sizes could be seen on the skin. The extremities became cool. When the lower limbs were raised, the feet became white; When it droops, it is purplish red, the toenails are deformed, thickened, brittle, falling off, muscle atrophy, poor muscle tension, common foot deformity, metatarsal head subsidence, metatarsophalangeal joint bending, arch shaped mallet toe, toe hyperextension like claw, when the dorsal artery of foot is occluded, the skin color of both feet is blue purple, the pulsation is very weak or disappeared, sometimes the vascular murmur can be heard at the vascular stenosis, the limb sensory dullness disappeared, and the tuning fork vibration disappeared, Achilles tendon reflex was very weak or disappeared.

Diabetic foot late: diabetic foot continues to develop, foot ulcers and even gangrene. Diabetic foot gangrene can be divided into dry gangrene, wet gangrene and mixed gangrene.

matters needing attention

For patients with diabetic foot, the first thing we should do is to control blood glucose to ensure the stability and normal of blood glucose; At the same time, for the foot with early ulcer, bandage and dressing change in time. For the more serious foot gangrene ulcer, the conventional dressing change is invalid, which can be used in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine such as shitangjukang; At the same time, for some patients with more serious vascular obstruction, drugs or surgery can be used to dredge the blocked blood vessels, and daily foot care can be done well, so that the treatment of diabetic foot can be better.