9 Crucial Diabetic Foot Care Tips

If you have diabetes, reliable information about how to manage your condition might become crucial to your well being. When you wish to know exactly how to reduce risks of infection or amputation – take a look and consider incorporating these 9 diabetic foot care tips into your dailt routine…

If you know that you already have diabetes, professional, credible information about how to manage your condition might be vital to your well being.

When you don't look after your feet on a regular basis, you might run the risk of developing lesions or infections. With dibetes, it is unfortunate that many times this could lead, in the worst case scenario, even to amputations. Therefore, you may be happy to discover that you can significantly reduce your risk of infection or amputation by incorporating these 9 foot care tips…

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Here they are, the magical nine:

• Make It Routine – Check Your Feet Daily
  This is especially important if you have a low level of sensitivity, or no feeling in your feet at all. Sores, lesions, cuts and grazes could go unnoticed, and you might develop conditions that may deteriorate and even lead to amputations.

• Don't Go Around Barefoot, Even While Indoors
  It is too easy to tread on something sharp or abrasive, to graze or stub your toes and cut yourself. Always protect your feet with proper socks / stockings and shoes / slippers.

• If You Have Corns or Calluses – Be Extra Careful
  Consult your doctor or podiatrist (foot specialist) for the best way to take care of them. You might consider to apply special, soft, palsters. Also, gentle removal by a professional, might also work for you in other cases.

• Wash Your Feet Daily in Lukewarm Water
  Do NOT apply HOT water to your feet – as, due to low sensitivity, this may lead to burns. Also, do not soak your feet for too long (even if you have been standing on them all day), because it might dry your skin, and later form cracks or open sores.

• Take Special Care to Keep Your Feet as Dry as Possible
  Dry your feet completely after taking your shoes off, after taking a bath, or getting soaked in the rain. Being dry is especially important between your toes, as these places tend to behave as natural moisture traps – leaving them damp or wet may create all sorts of problems. For example, fungi are known to "love" the combination of dark, warm and wet locations.

• Exercise Your Legs and Feet Regularly
  Action is a core requirement to help nourish the tissues, and get rid of waste. There are many kinds of exercises for you to choose from. Gather and create a collection of exercises, to incorporate into various routines to make it easy and fun as possible.
  Here are some examplary exercises. Try one right now, and see how you feel with it:
  – Seat comfortably. With your legs spread straight, or bent at the knees – rotate your ankles clockwise several times. Then, do the same to the other direction. You might do it as slow, or as fast as you feel comfortable with.
  – Wiggle your toes. Contract and straighten them out. Do this too as slow, or as fast as you like.
  – While seating, hold the armrests for security and leverage. straighten your legs. Move your legs up and down. You may start with one leg, while the other is resting. Then – the other. Now, let both legs go up and down together.All these should be quite easy to perform. These exercises may keep your blood circulation flowing to help minimize the risks of feet problems.

• Get Your Feet Checked by a Professional on a Regular Basis, at Least Once a Year
  . Depending on your status, these checkups may be recommended even more frequently. You can, usually, arrange this when you have your annual checkup for your AC1 levels (blood glucose levels over a 3 month period), blood pressure and cholesterol, for example.

• As the image shows You may find tremendous relief by letting water flow on your feet
  You may choose to do it in nature, at aspa, or even at the comfort of your shower. Flowing water helps our energy flow. Negative ions are created by the rolling water, and the breaking water drops. They are known to improve mood swings, and even alleviate some levels of depression. Yet, always apply the tips above – do NOT use HOT water, and remember to dry your feet thoroughly afterwards.
   
• Use Soft, Non Abrasive Shoes, with Soft, Seemless Socks
  Shoes are important to help warm your feet enough, and protect against harmful objects. Yet, always remeber to use very comfortable shoes and socks. What might be a small friction for healthy feet, might grow to become very dangerous with diabetic feet.

If you already know that you have dibetes, a mild case and especially if your diabetes has reached a more advanced level, take consistent care of your feet. Use whatever makes it more practical to apply. Get help from a relative or professional: A Doctor, diabetic nurse or podiatrist if you are not able to bend when trimming nails or checking for sores. Taking care regularly, even these simple actions might help you reduce the risk of much more painful problems.

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