Prevention of senile and diabetic foot care.doc

 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 7 Prevention of senile and diabetic foot care [Keywords:] diabetic foot; prevention; care Also known as diabetic gangrene diabetic foot is one of the most serious complications of diabetes is diabetes, disability, death of important reasons. Diabetic foot is due to peripheral neuropathy in diabetic patients, lower extremity arterial insufficiency, caused by bacterial infection and other factors The. The main clinical manifestations were: acral cold, pain, skin ulcers and gangrene and other deep. With the increasing incidence of diabetes in the year, coupled with lack of knowledge of diabetes, diabetic foot population is also gradually expanding. domestic Medical statistics show that: The incidence of diabetic foot aged 49.5%, diabetic foot amputation rates increased with age, and ethnic differences. diabetes the risk of lower limb amputation 15 times the non-diabetic patients [1]. Therefore, early prevention, early detection and early treatment to reduce diabetes and the incidence of foot deformity has become our important work can not be ignored. 1 prevention of diabetic foot 1.1 Health education Health Education in addition to diabetes patients and their families to explain the knowledge, but also allowed to understand the pathogenesis of diabetic foot, foot care, clinical symptoms and health-care knowledge. Elderly patients with memory, hearing and other functions decline Nurses should listen to and remember elderly patients to determine the ability of focused attention, control, moderate speech rate, to elderly patients can be accepted as the standard does not feel difficult. diabetes health education covers a wide, according to the health of the elderly, knowledge-level , culture and other factors, “individualized education, illness education”, easy to understand easy to accept. through health education so that patients fully understand the hazards and diabetic foot can be preventive, improve self-protection awareness of di