Patients with diabetes who have poor long-term blood glucose control can lead to serious complications such as peripheral neuropathy, vascular disease, and diabetic foot, with diabetic foot ulcers being a major cause of amputation. If you are a diabetic and your blood sugar is at a high level, it will lead to high viscosity, high coagulation of the blood, and the end of the limb such as the lower limb vascular endothelial cell dysfunction will lead to lower limb arterial vascular occlusive lesions, resulting in local tissue ischemia, hypoxia, damage to the immune function of white blood cells, if stimulated by trauma and other reasons, will lead to foot rupture, infection phenomenon, the formation of diabetic foot ulcers. Once the diabetic foot ulcer is formed, if the blood sugar is high for a long time and the infection is not effectively controlled, it will form an enlarged foot ulcer, which can lead to gangrene in serious cases, and this situation will require amputation treatment to stop the development of the disease, otherwise it will bring more harm to the body.
The only way to avoid or delay the development of a diabetic foot or amputation is to improve control of blood sugar in patients with diabetes.