Prevention and treatment of diabetic foot.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 10 Prevention and treatment of diabetic foot [Keywords:] Diabetes Diabetic foot occurs in diabetic patients, is the role of multiple risk factors results. Which is defined as distal nerve abnormalities with the lower limbs and lower limb distal peripheral vascular disease-related foot infections, ulcers, or deep tissue destruction. The most common consequence of chronic ulcers, the most serious outcome is that disability and even amputation, which greatly reduces the patient’s quality of life and brought great suffering for patients, and a heavy financial burden. According to foreign reports, diabetes, and about 15% of patients with varying degrees of ulceration, about 1% of diabetes patients were amputation, diabetic foot amputation in many countries is the first reason. Thus, in the rapidly growing incidence of diabetes today, diabetic foot prevention and control must be the vast number of clinicians face a challenge. A diabetic foot causes, occurrence and development process and influencing factors From the definition of diabetic foot can be seen that the cause of diabetic foot is the distal lower extremities due to diabetes, neurological abnormalities and distal lower limb peripheral vascular disease. With diabetes is not a spontaneous ulcers. Therefore, the understanding of ulcer development, it can enable the program to prevent ulcers and amputations to play a role in prevention and treatment of diabetic foot from a fundamental place. Lower limb diabetic neuropathy occurred in 20% ~ 50% of diabetes patients, including lower limb pain and sensory neuropathy numbness, or sensory loss. In the 20th century, 30 years, Rose, and Carles noticed neuropathy and diabetic foot relationship. Sensory, motor, autonomic neuropathy in diabetic foot formation process plays an important role. In patients with sensory neuropathy to touch, loss of pressure and pain perception. Patients with foot pressure over a certain part of the injured without