On the occasion of World Diabetes Day held this Thursday, December 14, from the Official College of Podiatrists of the Community of Madrid (Copoma) have warned that people with diabetes should pay special attention to feet prevention.
From Copoma they have pointed out that the usual care of the feet to prevent pathologies is important in any person, but even more it is in the population suffering from diabetes, because they can suffer peripheral neuropathy or peripheral arterial disease, pathology that affects sensitivityand blood irrigation respectively of the limbs of the body.
This, they have explained, brings two consequences: first, an increase in probabilities that injuries or ulcers occur.Second, the difficulty that the organism finds to overcome them, since in addition to being more difficult, little attention is given to any anomaly for not suffering the same pain.
In this way, there is a considerable increase in possibilities that diabetic people suffer feet ulcers, infections or destruction of deep tissues.Specifically, 34 percent of diabetic people suffer from some foot ulcer throughout their lives, as they have stated from the Professional College.In fact, foot complications accumulate more hospitalizations than any other complication related to diabetes.
Avoid major consequences
These consequences entail a great increased risk of foot amputations, because, as they have assured, specifically, in Spain, the rate of inhabitants amputated by diabetic foot is 52 percent, a fact that is well aboveCountries like France, Italy or the United Kingdom have valued.
Hence the insistence from Copoma to raise public people about this pathology and, above all, teach to prevent it, since they have assured that 80 percent of amputations made could only be avoided with prevention and early attention.
In line with this, Copoma has claimed that, despite the fact that there are already special diabetic footing units in some hospitals in certain autonomous communities, the inclusion of podiatry professionals in the serma services portfolio (the Madrid service ofHealth), to be part of the multidisciplinary team of these units.
Similarly, they have affirmed, its national inclusion would be necessary, also in Primary Social Security Care, which "would give a favorable impact to reduce greater damage, not only on a personal and health level, but also economic, derived fromTreatments with more drastic solutions ", since, as the Dean of Copoma, Dr. Pedro Villalta, has argued," to prevent diabetic foot ulcers would already be a great savings, because its treatment exceeds 7,100 euros. "
