Diabetic foot causes 15 times more amputations than non-diabetic patients, and about 50% of annual amputations are in diabetic patients. In winter, due to the cold climate, poor peripheral circulation, more likely to occur in the lower limbs of the ischemia, so the diabetic foot in winter is easy to attack or aggravate. Therefore, it is especially important to do a good job of diabetic foot prevention in winter. Pay attention to foot hygiene and health, and have regular foot examinations. Once diagnosed with diabetes mellitus, should start to prevent ulcers and amputations, should go to the hospital diabetes specialist to do a foot health check every year, if there are complications, should be checked once a quarter, especially with foot ulcers and once due to diabetes amputation of patients, should be checked once every 1 ~ 3 months. Prevention of diabetic foot should be carried out throughout the entire life course of a diabetic patient. The following is a list of the main preventive and curative measures for diabetic foot: 1. Actively treat diabetes, control blood sugar, control blood pressure, and improve blood circulation. 2. 2. Check your feet frequently to prevent small wounds or infections in the skin of your feet. In the bright place to check the feet, between the toes, whether there are: corns, calluses and tinea pedis skin cracks, abrasions and other blisters, redness and other mosquito bites and wounds. Sometimes because the patient’s sensory retardation, and can not feel the pain, the more serious sometimes have nails in the shoes, small stones and other foreign objects also have no feeling, so the daily self-check is very important, the check must be careful, serious. 3.Correct foot washing: wash your feet with warm water (not more than 40 degrees) every day. Use flexible soap, do not use irritating soap. Wash before the hand test the water temperature, to prevent the water temperature is too high, scalding feet. Soak your feet for no more than 5-10 minutes. After washing, use a soft towel to gently dry the skin of the feet, do not rub hard, keep the skin between the toes dry. In order to prevent dry, cracked foot skin, you can regularly use lubricating lotion or nutritional cream to keep the foot skin soft and moist. 4. Ensure comfortable shoes and socks. Shoes should be carefully selected, with wide toes, appropriate size, good breathability, comfortable to wear, and should not be crowded. Don’t walk barefoot, or wear sandals or slippers barefoot to prevent foreign objects from damaging the skin of the feet, and don’t wear sandals when you go out. Check your shoes regularly to prevent foreign objects from hurting your feet. In winter, you should pay attention to the warmth of the shoes should be good, do a good job of foot insulation, do not make it frozen. Socks should be absorbent, breathable, loose and warm. Pure wool or cotton products are better. The mouth of the socks should be loose so as not to affect blood circulation. Socks should be changed and washed every day to keep them clean. 5. Trimming toenails correctly: After washing your feet, it is best to trim your toenails when they are soft. When trimming, please cut flat, do not cut too short, too close to the skin. Don’t trim the edge of the toenail into a round or angled, otherwise it is easy to damage the skin of the nail groove and cause infection. 6.Foot exercises: Insist on calf and foot exercises for 30-60 minutes every day, which can improve blood circulation in the lower limbs and prevent the occurrence of foot lesions. 7, quit smoking, limit alcohol to maintain good habits. 8, the treatment of small foot wounds: (preferably under the guidance of medical personnel), can should first use disinfectant (such as alcohol) to thoroughly clean the injury, and then covered with sterile gauze. Avoid strongly irritating antiseptics such as iodine. Do not use dark-colored antiseptics such as violet drops; the color of the medication can obscure signs of wound infection. Do not use hard creams, corns or caustic acidic medicines as skin ulcers may occur. If the wound does not heal in 2-3 days, you should seek medical advice from an endocrine specialist clinic as soon as possible to prevent delays. The treatment of diabetic foot is a kind of comprehensive treatment. Simply changing medicine in outpatient clinic will not help, but will delay the condition, once found, should be hospitalized immediately, including the use of insulin to strengthen the control of blood glucose, the use of blood circulation drugs or vascular intervention to improve the blood circulation of the whole body and the local area, the intravenous infusion of antibiotics to fight infections, and the local cleaning and disinfection of the wound and change the medicine, and other comprehensive measures. Re-emphasize: diabetic foot focuses on prevention, early detection and early treatment, most patients can avoid amputation through timely and reasonable treatment.