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What do sharks and diabetic foot infections have in common?
Upstairs, the roar of the wave throws wild currents around the reef. A pool small damselfish through the reef is thrown against the reef and the nickname himself on the sharp coral. Three scales shiny scratch and drift, motionless until the current begins to run on them. A small drop of blood slowly flows into the ocean. Surprised, the girl hurries little apart in the open ocean.
A mile away, a coral Bluetip languid smell a shark. The drop of blood spread thin Ocean awakens the appetite for sharks. He can feel the blood creeps and although the sea, monitoring continuously back to a path fragrance stronger and stronger. The little damselfish, still barely bleeding, but leaving a trail to follow, it's the end of the road for the shark. Teeth oblique wide open, the girl has no chance.
The history of sharks in the lady has a perfect analogy for how your body fights bacteria when you develop a diabetic foot infection. The bacterium is a bit like the little damselfish. Upon passing through the tissues in your foot, it leaves chemical markers that indicate its presence.
Sharks are like white blood cells (called macrophages) that tracking bacteria through a process known as chemotaxis. Once macrophages localize the bacteria, you actually surround the bacteria cell wall, effectively eat. The way they eat the bacteria in this way is known as phagocytosis. Unfortunately, diabetes and high levels of sugar in the blood are associated with diabetes can have a profound effect on both chemotaxis and phagocytosis.
When serum glucose is high, macrophages are not able to follow the trail leading to the bacteria. Somehow, the white blood cells are much more like a blind shark hungry, who can not see or smell, drifting through the ocean is great hope of hitting a damselfish.
To complicate matters further, the process of phagocytosis is also disabled when the blood sugar is high. Thus, even if the blind, the insane do shark encounter a damselfish, is almost as if his mouth is stitched. Even when the shark can find a fish lady, she still can not eat.
This is the reason why a diabetic foot infection is an emergency that is rapidly becoming a member or life-threatening. Within 24 hours, a minor infection can kill a diabetic. In almost all that amputation was performed on diabetics, it is likely that early intervention could have prevented the magnitude of the loss of a limb.
For this reason it is essential for a diabetic to check your feet every day. Otherwise, a minor bulb, toenail an open wound or ingrown can start with a small infection and quickly get worse. As the bacteria divide, Sharks can not do anything to stop them.
In a healthy adult, an ingrown toenail infection can remain for days before the aggravation of infection. In a diabetic, this is simply not true. A diabetic with high blood glucose was impaired immune system. The immune system is disabled unable to control the growth of bacteria and develop serious complications.
Every 30 seconds a member is amputated somewhere diabetes. Diabetes is also more than half of all amputations that are performed. This problem is actually getting worse and not better. The detection rate of diabetes continues to skyrocket. It also provides that the prevalence of diabetes will continue to grow as baby boomers age.
Given the current circumstances of Medicare and other insurers do not provide insurance coverage for preventive care such as aggressive surveillance and education of diabetic foot problems, the number of amputations will also continue to increase. Unfortunately, this is all preventable, but it is generally not prevented.
It has been well documented that exercise controls on foot daily, seeking early treatment for diabetic foot problem, and maintaing hypoglycemia can all help to avoid problems in diabetes that lead to amputation. However, the current trend is that Insurance companies will only pay for care related to complications such as diabetic foot infections, hospitalizations and amputations diabetes.
Because of how these events unfold, leaving many patients without left leg to stand on.
You must have a diabetic foot check every year. If you also have diabetic neuropathy or nerve damage, it is important to be seen more often. You must examine your feet daily. You must also wear white socks with diabetes so you can detect any drainage in case you not receive a wound on your feet, you can not see. All these minor procedures have significantly reduced the rate of foot complications of diabetes.
About the Author
Dr. Christopher Segler is an author, inventor and award winning diabetic foot doctor. After discovering how amputations resulted from a failing health care system, it became his passion to teach strategies to stop diabetic amputation. You can learn more by requesting your FREE report “No Leg Left To Stand On: The Secrets Insurance Companies Don’t Want You To Know About Diabetic Foot Amputation” at http://www.ineedmyfeet.com.
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