Why Diabetes Causes Skin Itching

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2025-05-01 20:50:31 Views: 40 times

Everyone thinks that skin itching should be a dermatological problem. In fact, there are many patients with diabetes who cause skin itching. The main reasons for it are as follows: the first is elevated blood sugar, which can cause skin microcirculation disorders and peripheral nerve damage, thus causing skin itching; The second long-term hyperglycemia can cause abnormal autonomic nerve function governing sweat glands, causing abnormal sweating mainly manifested as reduced sweating, dry skin or chap, etc., and also causing skin itching; the third diabetic patient is easy to cause infection, such as scabies, sores, local skin or combined eczema, etc.; Diabetes patients due to low immunity, but also combined with fungal infections of the skin, especially limbs, especially feet, its fungal infection is particularly common, there are bacterial infections, etc., while diabetes patients are prone to combined eczema and other allergic diseases, these are the causes of skin itching.

Why Diabetes Causes Skin Itching



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