Prevention of diabetic foot

The key is to regularly check the patient for risk factors for diabetic foot, identify these risk factors, educate the patient and family and relevant medical personnel on foot protection, wear appropriate footwear, and correct factors that cause ulcers. Education for diabetes and family includes daily examination of the feet, especially between the toes, sometimes with the assistance of experienced others. Wash your feet regularly and dry them with a dry cloth, especially between the toe tissues. When washing feet, the water temperature should be appropriately lower than 37 degrees, and it is not advisable to use hot water bottles, electric heaters and other items to directly warm the feet, prevent barefoot walking, prevent self-pruning callus or using chemicals to treat callus or nails. Before wearing shoes, you should first check whether there are foreign bodies or abnormalities in the shoes, and do not wear tight or defective socks and shoes. Dry foot skin can use ointment skin care products, change socks every day, do not wear socks higher than the knee, cut nails horizontally, trim the corpus callosum by a professional, and seek treatment from a specialist doctor or nurse once there is a problem.