13. Manage Your Blood Glucose Levels to Improve Your Foot Problems
Keep your blood sugar levels under control to prevent peripheral neuropathy or nerve damage that result in you losing your sense of feeling in your feet. As a result, you’ll never know whether you get injuries or sores, or not.
Foot care and blood sugar control can help prevent your nerve damage from deteriorating. Moreover, it can even reverse your neuropathy condition. Controlling your blood cholesterol levels and pressure can also help reduce your risk of nerve damage.
Why is it Important to Take Care of Your Feet?
Diabetes can lead to foot problems due to minor injuries such as cuts. It can cause neuropathy or nerve damage, leaving you feeling numb and thus can’t feel injuries or infections. Reduced blood flow to the feet reduces a diabetic’s ability to heal from injuries, infections or wounds.
Unnoticed injuries can lead to infections, sores, blisters or wounds that don’t heal. Therefore, diabetics risk leg amputations. This explains the importance of foot care in patients with diabetes.
