If you have diabetes, your blood glucose, or blood sugar , levels are too high. Over time, this can damage your nerves or blood vessels. Nerve damage from diabetes can cause you to lose feeling in your feet. You may not feel a cut, a blister or a sore. Foot injuries such as these can cause ulcers and infections. Serious cases may even lead to amputation. Damage to the blood vessels can also mean that your feet do not get enough blood and oxygen. It is harder for your foot to heal, if you do get a sore or infection.
You can help avoid foot problems. First, control your blood sugar levels. Good foot hygiene is also crucial:-Check your feet every day,Wash your feet every day, Keep the skin soft and smooth, Smooth corns and calluses gently,If you can see, reach, and feel your feet, trim your toenails regularly. If you cannot, ask a foot doctor (podiatrist) to trim them for you.,Wear shoes and socks at all times,Protect your feet from hot and cold, Keep the blood flowing to your feet
HOMOEOPATHIC REMEDIES
SECALE COR 30- An excellent remedy for diabetic gangrene . Dry gangrene of toe. Dusky blue tinge. Skin feels cold to touch yet covering not tolerated. Warmth aggravation
ARSENICUM ALBUM 30- Diabetic gangrene. Burning and soreness , relieved by warmth. Fetid smell from the wound. Restlessness.
APIS MELLIFICA 30-Spreading cellulitis with burning stinging pain. Sensitive. Blebs are seen
ANTIMONIUM CRUDUM 30- Callosities are seen. Dry gangrene
CARBO VEGETABIS 30- Carbuncles and boils becomes gangrenous. Wet , purple and icy cold gangrene.Moist gangrene. There is great prostration
HEPAR SULPH 30- Blebs are seen. Very sensitive to touch
LACHESIS 200-Bluish purple surroundings around gangrene. Traumatic
RHUS TOX 30- Spreading cellulitis
SULPHURIC ACID-30- Blue and purple surroundings of the gangrene. Bleeding under the skin
THIOSINAMINUM 30-Specific for callosities. Dry gangrene
TARENTULA CUB 30- Painful and inflamed abscess with a tendency to gangrene
ECHINACEA Q- Emitting a foul smell from gangrene . 5 drops in a little of water every 2 hours . Externally wash with a Echinacea lotion. It act as a cleaning and antiseptic agent.
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