How to Prevent Infection of Diabetic Patients?

When the Diabetic patients have injuries on the skin, bacterium, mycete and other pathogenic bacteria will invade and cause infection. Foot is a favorite place for parasitic bacteria and microorganism because the shoes supply a superior living environment for their living. Therefore, when your foot has injuries, ulcer, cut wound etc, do take active measures to prevent infection. Foot ulcer is the biggest source of infection. When foot ulcer develop into foot infection, the microorganism will go deep into the skin and bone tissue, then a deep eyelet will be formed. When the infection goes deeper and broader, it may lead to amputation.


Symptom: After the ulcer is infected, there will appear fever, red and swollen, fever around the wound, and some discharge and puruloid will leak out.


The doctor will have a blood test for you to make it clear about your blood sugar level and white blood cell. X ray may be also needed to check whether the bones have been infected. If the infection is not so severe, ambulatory treatment can treat it well, but it should be treated every 2-3 days for about one week. Most infection will be improved in a few days. But if your soft tissue is infected, antibiotics may be needed for about 2 weeks. If the infections have gone deep into the bones, antibiotics may be needed for 6 weeks or much longer.


Except antibiotics, in order to heal the ulcer, sometimes a layer of healthy tissues may be covered on the ulcer.


Attention: don’t walk with your infected foot. If you want to move around, draw help from the walking stick or wheel chair. If the foot is swelling, you should lift up the foot.


Prevention: do make sure the foot clean and dry in order not to infect the foot. The doctor may suggest to have Antibiotic Ointment or solution to treat ulcer. Moreover, have the blood sugar in the normal level. Diabetic patients should actively prevent infection to avoid the pain that may brings.