Diabetic Life: 7 Diabetes Foot Care Tips
In a diabetic life, staying informed is a must. You ought to learn as much information about handling your situation. And one of the most critical thing is caring for your feet. If you fail to do this, you will encounter challenges of getting sore, …
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Nigeria: Okeoghene, 29, Seeks Five Million to Save His Feet
The undergraduate of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, has been having a running battle with diabetes. Now he needs at least N5.0 million to save his feet from being amputated. Just over two years ago, he developed a complication called Diabetic foot …
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Surgery Doesn’t Have to Be an Ordeal for People With Diabetes
In the case of extremities, such as the feet and hands, if a patient doesn’t have good blood flow, that increases the risks of getting what we call wound breakdown. So it’s critical that we do anything we can to help a diabetic be ready for surgery or …
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Palmer Center offering free diabetic foot screening
Among them is the following, coming up soon: St. Mary’s Hospital will provide adults 50+ free diabetic foot screening, blood sugar and blood pressure checks from 10 to 11:15 am Wednesday, Jan. 4. For more information call 325-6200 or visit …
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Diabetic Foot Care: Everything You Ever Wanted To Know!
Unfortunately, all too many of us who have diabetes worry about nutrition and medication, but fail to properly care for the feet and toes. Ignoring dangerous signs and symptoms could result in loss of feeling of these limbs, or even worse, amputation. …
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Ask an Expert: Readers ask questions about diabetes, foot pain
I am a diabetic patient over 15 years who has developed GERD (gastroesophageal reflux disease). It’s a chronic problem. I am taking medicines — Diamicron for blood sugar and capsules of Omeprazole for heartburn — but currently these medicines don’t …
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