Diabetic patients with rotten feet are considered to develop diabetic foot. Diabetic foot rot can still live time, with the severity of complications and whether timely and effective treatment.
1. Does not affect life expectancy: If the degree of foot rot is not very serious, and at the same time actively take effective treatment, including the treatment of blood glucose control and anti-infection treatment, to avoid further aggravation of infection symptoms, induced sepsis, or septicemia, the life expectancy of the patient will not be affected.
2. Affecting life expectancy: if the condition is more serious, inhibiting anti-infection treatment is ineffective, or not actively treated, it may induce sepsis or septicemia and lead to death. Therefore, if the diabetic rotten feet are more serious, when necessary, in order to avoid systemic infection, there may be a need to consider amputation.
Diabetes is not scary, what is scary is the complications, patients need to actively accept treatment to avoid jeopardizing life and health. If a diabetic patient has rotten feet, please go to the hospital immediately.