Your feet need special treatment when you have diabetes

[TexasTowelie]

By Chris Morrisroe


There are an estimated 30.3 million people with diabetes in the United States, with approximately 7.2 million individuals not aware they have the disease.

Uncontrolled diabetes poses a major threat to vital organs and other body tissues, which heal more slowly because of the disease.

Diabetes is the inability to manufacture or properly use insulin, impairing the body’s ability to regulate sugar (glucose) levels which provide energy to cells and tissues throughout the body. Therefore, it is a disease that affects many parts of the body and is associated with serious complications such as heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure and lower limb amputations. The leading cause of hospitalization among people with diabetes is foot ulcers and infections, but most of those problems are largely preventable.

More than 60 percent of all nontraumatic lower-limb amputations worldwide are related to complications from the disease, according to the American Diabetes Association. For that reason, the Michigan Podiatric Medical Association (MPMA) has tips to help diabetic patients take better care of their feet.

Read more: https://www.theoaklandpress.com/lifestyles/health/your-feet-need-special-treatment-when-you-have-diabetes/article_7492b5ee-0577-11ea-b6d8-b7347849dfb1.html

[Cartoonist]

1. Musical advice

[TexasTowelie]

2. More musical advice:

[Cartoonist]

3. A second opinion

[meow2u3]

11. I can relate to that

I check my size 12 feet (I'm female) to see if I can still feel stuff.

[rampartc]

4. i can only count to 19

thanks, diabetes,

the good news is that we live in an age of miraculous antibiotics. the bad news is that staphococcus and Enterobacter evolve very rapidly.

[CaptYossarian]

5. I'm at 14 and always thank my grandpa. My left leg left me in 2017.

I've also suffered blindness (both eyes at the same time), but the left one is restored.

Just finished 18 mos of Dialysis when surgeons plugged in a pre-owned kidney and pancreas last Sept. 28th. It's been 2+ months and working great. Now, they're starting to add parts back after taking some away.

You win some and you lose some.

[rampartc]

6. good work, capt

I hope your insurance has been as good as mine has. I can not imagine paying for 6 weeks of iv antibiotics or 60 hyperbaric dives. but without them I might have lost the leg.

[CaptYossarian]

7. About those dives: How come my 2nd set of 30, I suddenly developed

a fear of going in? They had to drug me up to my uvula so I could participate. The panic attacks led to dry heaves. You would think the first time would be about fear of the unknown.

Then came the magic pill and it was all good.

[rampartc]

8. i did ask for a medical marijuana prescription for the anxiety.

goofy surgeon wrote one for xanex instead. not the same.

hyperbaric was a year ago and my vision is still much better than it was.

[CaptYossarian]

9. The WI legislature has studied and memorized Reefer Madness, so it will be a while

before prescriptions are written here. I swear they're fans of Birth of a Nation too.

[rampartc]

10. you can only imagine our conditions in louisiana

they passed medical marijuana, so doctors can prescribe, but no one can be licensed to actually full the prescriptions.

and as for birth of a nation …..

it has been nice talking to you capt.