Diabetic Foot Care in Taylors Lakes
Diabetic foot care in Taylors Lakes is what the foot doctors at Taylors Lakes Podiatry Clinic do best. Our clinic offers wound care, neuropathy, and vascular assessment and treatment of foot conditions of people with diabetes.
If you have diabetes, it increases your risk of foot conditions and diseases such as open sores, infections, and neuropathy, among others, which may lead to foot deformities, blood flow issues, and worse, wounds and ulcers that may lead to amputations.
It is therefore important that you are aware of how to take care of your feet and manage your diabetes as well. Seeing a podiatrist, especially from Taylors Lakes Podiatry Clinic, will ensure that you get the proper diabetic foot care in Taylors Lakes when you develop foot issues.
2 Foot Problems of Diabetics
There are 2 foot problems diabetics may experience--peripheral neuropathy or nerve damage in your legs and feet where you can’t feel heat, cold, or pain, also called sensory diabetic neuropathy; and peripheral vascular disease where there’s poor blood flow that affects the arms and legs. With poor blood flow, you are at risk of developing gangrene when you have an infection that does not heal.
When you perpetually have high levels of blood sugar, it damages the nerves and small blood vessels causing peripheral neuropathy and vascular disease. To help ease the effects of diabetes on your feet, proper foot care is needed such as wearing comfortable shoes that won’t cramp your toes, wearing socks to protect your feet from getting blisters, maintaining blood flow to your feet, and many more.
Find out more about diabetic foot care from our resident foot doctors at Taylors Lakes Podiatry Clinic.
Some Diabetic Foot Problems That Can Turn Serious
While some of the following foot problems are common, these may not bode well for people with diabetes as they can lead to infection and serious complications like amputation.
o Athlete's foot. A fungal infection that causes itching, redness, and cracking of the skin where germs can enter and cause an infection. The cracks may not heal as soon and can get worse if not treated properly.
o Fungal nail infection. When a diabetic has a fungal nail infection, the nails may separate from the nailbed just like an open wound. If not given the right diabetic foot care treatment, it can get worse.
o Blisters. They’re very tempting to pop but you should never do it especially if you have diabetes! Popping them will leave it open to infection. Wearing tight-fit shoes, especially if you’re not wearing socks, can cause blisters. Diabetics get blisters on their feet and other parts of the body known as bullosis diabeticorum. These blisters heal in time so the best thing to do is to have your blood sugar under control.
About Us
We are Taylors Lakes Podiatry Clinic. We're a team of skilled podiatrists who take the utmost care of your foot health. We offer a very wide range of services like general nail and foot care, fungal nail treatment using four photodynamic (PACT) machines, corn and callus removal, musculoskeletal injuries, shockwave therapy, diabetic foot care, and orthotic management as well as quite a few ingrown toenail surgeries. We also offer children’s podiatry where we treat toe walking, in-toeing, and heel pain, among others.
Our podiatry care is very personalised, delivered by caring and professional podiatrists who are duly registered and accredited by the Podiatry Board of Australia. We believe in providing you with a super comfortable and friendly environment, allowing you a relaxed atmosphere that will ease your foot discomfort. All our consultations are 30 minutes, allowing more time to concentrate on your foot concerns in a relaxed yet professional environment.