Diabetic Foot and Nerve Disorders
Diabetic foot symptoms and Diabetic neuropathy is a disorder that affects the body’s peripheral nerves, peripheral nerves outside the brain and spinal cord, are those who are called sensory, motor and vegetative system. Sensory peripheral nerves are those that allow us to feel the shapes, heat and pain. Peripheral motor nerves are those that allow us to make precise movements with the arms, legs and fingers.
The vegetative system is one that can not be controlled voluntarily and regulate sweating, erections in men and smooth muscles like the heart and others.
In diabetes the most common form of neuropathy is called peripheral neuropathy, motor, symmetrical and distal. This affects several nerves at once (sensory and motor), bilaterally and in general to the feet and legs. This manifests itself in the middle of diabetic patients who have more than fifteen years of evolution.
Symptoms of diabetic foot
Because of this, patients lose protective sensation that provide the pain, pressure and temperature. Patients may not realize they are burning with too hot water to wash his feet, carrying foreign bodies inside the shoe or not realize that they have a foot injury without necessarily represent the large-scale trauma.
In areas where the pressure is high is prone to forming blisters, calluses and ultimately ulceration.
Motor neuropathy known as muscle atrophy and causes deformations facilitate trauma. The most serious and extreme is called Charcot foot, which is recognized by the shortening of the rear axle, the occurrence of ulcers in the area of friction for the sinking of the arch of the foot.
Autonomic neuropathy causes loss of normal foot sweating, resulting in extremely dry and cracked skin, causing a marked tendency to hyperkeratosis. Hyperkeratosis with fissures and cracks can form that may be the gates of an infection.
Treatment for diabetic foot
Medical treatments offered for diabetic neuropathy are intended to prevent the disease from getting worse and relieve symptoms. The most common drugs for treatment include antidepressants such as amitriptyline, anticonvulsants medications, drugs blocking the bladder contractions and pain.