One of the longer term complications of diabetes is nerve damage where feeling in the lower limb is lost. Try to imagine what happens if you can’t feel your feet and you sprain your ankle. As you can’t feel it, imagine what happens as you keep walking on that sprained ankle. This is what can happen in diabetes and is known as Charcot’s foot (or Charcot’s neuroarthropathy).

Essentially what happens in Charcot’s (more…)

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Sores, ulcers and infections, usually involving the feet, are serious complications of diabetes. But now with the growing incidence of MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus), both in hospitals and out in the community, people with diabetes have something new to worry about.

MRSA is an opportunistic infection and can invade an open wound. If you are prone to sores and ulcers on your feet, you need to be extra (more…)

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