Diabetes mellitus may lead to skin diseases, such as infectious skin diseases and chronic skin diseases.
1. Infectious skin diseases: poor glycemic control of diabetes can easily lead to various infections, including boils and carbuncles, and fungal infections, such as tinea pedis and tinea corporis.
2. Chronic skin diseases: for example, diabetic foot may lead to abnormalities of the distal nerves of the lower limbs as well as peripheral vascular lesions of varying degrees, resulting in foot ulcers, infections, and destruction of the deeper layers of the tissues. It may cause foot deformity and skin dryness, or it may cause foot ulcers and gangrene.
Therefore, diabetes is a kind of disease that is easy to induce various complications, and has a relatively great harm, it is recommended that patients must seek treatment early and actively control blood sugar to avoid the development of complications.