If a U.S. citizen has diabetes and he develops a foot infection, it makes worse effect on the patient. He will be at a 55 times greater risk for hospitalization. Moreover, he will be a distressing 154 times greater risk for amputation. The journal Diabetes Care publishes the research.
Researchers at Texas A&M University, Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Science and the University of Washington have made a study on this disease link. They had collected data of about 1,700 diabetics for two and half years. After the intensive research they found that ninety percent case of amputation occurred because of the a foot infection.
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Foot infection in diabetics may cause amputation
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My grandmother who fought with diabetes her whole life had to have both legs amputated because of infections that started in her feet and spread very rapidly to the rest of the legs.
hi John, sad to know about your mother’s illness. Keep coming to the site to know more about diabetes, its effects, consequences and tips to stay away from it.
Diabetes patients with foot wounds — especially deep or long-lasting wounds — and circulatory problems are at much higher risk to require hospitalization and even amputation.
So says a study in June’s issue of Diabetes Care. The study comes from Lawrence Lavery, DPM, MPH, and colleagues. Lavery is a professor in the surgery department of Texas A&M University. He also works at Scott and White Hospital in Georgetown, Texas.