Chinese and Western Medicine diabetic foot care and health education with the progress.docVIP

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 22 Chinese and Western Medicine diabetic foot care and health education with the progress Keywords: diabetic foot care and health education Diabetic foot is due to diabetes, blood vessel, nerve lesions caused by the general term for abnormal changes of lower extremity is the most common complication of diabetes. According to relevant statistics, China’s prevalence rate of diabetic foot 0.9% ~ 14.5% [1]. Traditional treatment of diabetic foot is amputated, not only affects the patient’s quality of life, but also increasing the burden to the society and the family. Do a good job of diabetic foot care can significantly slow the progress of disease and avoid amputation. How to effectively reduce and prevent and reduce the occurrence of diabetic foot amputation rate of diabetic foot care is an urgent need to solve. I will combine Chinese and Western Medicine diabetic foot care and health education recent developments are summarized below. A precautionary approach [2-4] 1.1 to keep feet clean and moisture must adhere to the feet every day, water temperature 38 ~ 40 ℃, to their feet, no more than 10 min, gently rub with soap, after smearing with a warm water rinse. Washing is completed, wipe with a soft towel can smear moisturizing cream to keep skin moist. 1.2 focus on routine foot examination checks whether your feet and foot corns or blisters, whether the cracks between the toes infection, blisters or skin discoloration, foot skin is dry. If the patient examination by the family that they can not substitute checks. In addition, trimming fingernails, the use clippers, do not use scissors. Soaked in warm water prior to application of pruning and careful pruning to avoid cutting too deeply damage the nail bed or muscle. The affected foot wounds were observed at any time to report to assist the physicians treating physician. Talon of a nail or nails embedded in their own treatment should not be