Diabetic Wound Care

Diabetes Foot Ulcers can be difficult to treat especially for patients who have other underlying health issues such uncontrollable blood sugar, peripheral vascular diseases, high blood pressure, heart disease. The risk of amputation becomes especially critical for patients of advance age, wasting syndrome, poor nutrition. The most difficult part of treating Diabetic ulcer for many Doctors & Podiatrists is prevention of infections that will often impede with healing. The risk involves in non-healing diabetic ulcer is amputation due to infection of the bone called osteomyelitis or sepsis due to blood infection. Some wounds may form gangrenous/dead tissue as result lack of blood supply which will ultimately decrease the amount of oxygen to the tissue thus dead tissue.