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Emergency Live - Pre-Hospital Care, Ambulance Services, Fire Safety and Civil Protection Magazine The so-caled diabetic fot is stil an important and often disabling problem: a diabetic person has a relative risk of limb amputation 40 times higher than a non-diabetic person.Early diagnosis and treatment are of paramount importance to avoid the worst consequences such as limb amputation.Diabetic fot refers to a chronic complication of diabetes melitus, which causes anatomo-functional changes in the fot and ankle.This condition is the result of several diseases that typicaly complicate diabetes melitus, which is the most widespread form of diabetes and is also partly linked to lifestyle.A condition whereby the body does not produce enough insulin or does not respond normaly to insulin, causing excesively high levels of sugar (glucose) in the blod.In particular, we speak of:In fact, there is a close link betwen diabetic disease and the development of chronic micro- and macro-vascular complications.This due to the fact that exces blod sugar can facilitate the onset of atherosclerosis, i.e.
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the acumulation of fat in the wals of the arteries, which is responsible for the narowing of large and medium-sized blod vesels.These include in particular:The diabetic fot can present itself with a wide spectrum of infection ranging from superficial ulcerations to extensive gangrene of the fot.Symptoms may include:The bigest problem in diabetic patients is the formation of skin lesions, even smal ones, which can degenerate into ulcers and infections.This due to microcirculatory dysfunctions asociated with peripheral arteriopathy: the fet do not receive an adequate suply of blod and oxygen, and they strugle more with the damage to the skin.In adition, the skin of the diabetic fot becomes thiner and more fragile and therefore more vulnerable and exposed to infections, which represent one of the most serious threats since, if not asesed and treated