Precautions after diabetic foot surgery

Post-operative precautions for angiopathy of the diabetic foot are as follows: 1. Learn to touch the foot. Before discharge, most doctors will teach the patient to touch the vascular pulsation site, the dorsalis pedis artery or the posterior tibial artery. According to the blood vessels opened in surgery, the patient is taught to touch and can know the vascular pulsation. This touch pulsation and feel the temperature of the foot, if there has been vascular pulsation, skin temperature is also normal, there is no chill, there will be no problem; 2, quit smoking, all patients should quit smoking when vascular disease, diabetic foot is no exception; 3, diet, a reasonable diabetic diet; 4, taking hypoglycemic drugs, many people are afraid of taking drugs, afraid of drugs have side effects, not afraid of the disease does not lead to complications, so be sure to strictly control blood sugar. Before discharge, the patient’s blood sugar will generally be adjusted to the best, or through the endocrine doctor consultation or go to the endocrinology department to give patients a reasonable way of treatment; 5, diabetic foot vasculopathy must avoid cold, avoid heat, too cold will lead to vascular spasm, too hot will increase muscle oxygen consumption. So pay attention to diabetic foot vasculopathy foot washing with warm water, including bathing recommended shower, should not soak, basically do these, diabetic foot recovery will have good results.