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Why is it important to take care of the feet in diabetic patients?

In the development of diabetes, complications are more frequent involvement of nerves and arteries. The altered vascular blood flow and facilitate the development of edema and poorly vascularized areas that hinder the healing of wounds and injuries. Diabetic neuropathy causes numbness, muscular weakness and pain.

Both conditions have a special impact on the feet, increasing the production rate of erosion, perforation, cuts, burns … that if they are not careful become sores, facilitating infection and can lead to gangrene and the need for amputation.

How should foot care in diabetic patients?
To prevent ulcers, injury, infection and necrosis in the feet is very important for diabetic patients maintain good blood glucose control and avoid factors that may increase the risk of vascular and nerve injuries by:

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Run barefoot more beneficial for the body because of our feet on the ground directly. Also, runners who bare feet lower risk of injury because of anatomical foot when setting foot better.

The researchers observed that when people run with variations, runners who do not wear footwear tend to use the entire leg or as part of setting foot hits the ground first is the soles, new heels.

In contrast with the runners who wore shoes, 75 percent landed their heels first. This method is more risk of injury.
“Landed feet by the middle or front of your foot is needed first leg and calf muscles are strong, but shocks to the smaller muscles”.

Human foot evolved specifically and have anatomical characteristics as walking barefoot. This occurred approximately 4-6 million years ago. “However, approximately 2 million years ago humans began to tiptoe due to start running”.

Those who ran barefoot tend to avoid landing the heel first, since if done repeatedly can make your feet hurt. While shoes offer comfort, so they no longer land a part of his front leg.

Then, if we have to start taking off shoes? Not really was. However, the researchers suggest that we are slowly starting to learn to land the center of the soles of the feet while running.

Outside the footwear issues, many of the benefits we can gain from running activities. Among others to train the cardiovascular system or blood flow throughout the blood vessels, including the heart. And certainly, running is an activity that effective to burn fat.

Yeast infection can affect any part of the body such as hands, nails, feet, skin or scalp. There are some home remedies that are useful rather irritating that milk is very useful treating the fungus. For the fungus of interest to the soles of the feet, the cracks between the toes and fingers, hair tail and turmeric is very effective. Keep the moisture-free.

At night, apply the glue. Then one or twice daily until healing is complete. An alternative method of treatment is to utilize the leaves of Henna (Mehandi) instead of the rhizomes of turmeric or use of the three of us, hair, henna and turmeric.

Ripe banana, agglomeration in a paste of neem end in the water. Neem water is prepared by boiling a handful of neem leaves in a glass of water and the concentration of the solution by boiling for about fifteen minutes. Apply glue and banana and nim of all parties involved and the friction. Wash off after half an hour bath. Areas fungus gradually disappears.

Among the people of India, the onion juice is considered specific for the treatment of this condition. Not only gives you plenty of onions to the suffering of pityriasis versicolor of onion juice, but also in the pool or directly at the points of the onion slices in the bright parts affected.

When the fungus affects the nails, nails, and nail changes disfigures color to black or gray. In the early stages of the condition of nail fungus, henna leaves are ground into a paste applied to the nails to bedtime. Henna with its astringent properties and helps in the fight against fungal, healing of affected nails.

Fungus, also called onychomycosis, was a relatively common that disfigures and sometimes destroys the nail. Onychomycosis can be caused by several types of fungi (microscopic organisms related to mold growth). These fungi thrive, humid and stuffy inside the shoes. As they grow, they feed on keratin, the tough protein that forms the hard surface of the toenails. In most cases, the fungus belongs to a group of fungi called dermatophytes, including Trichophyton rubrum and Trichophyton interdigital. Other less common causes of onychomycosis include yeasts and molds.

Fungal nail infections are relatively common. Like other fungal infections of the feet (athlete’s foot), thought that the fungus could be selected, while walking barefoot in locker rooms or public showers. The fungi love warm, moist places, so imagine how happy Lil bugs are not good if your feet dry! Once you have a fungus growing on a toenail can be easily spread to other nails in the foot, nail your other foot, and even the nails (although, admittedly, this last possibility is rare).

Cause of toe nail fungus
Onychomycosis is caused by a fungus. A person who has had athlete’s foot often long before the development of onychomycosis. Sometimes trauma or damage to a nail predisposes to the development of onychomycosis.

The treatment of fungus and toenail onychomycosis
The prevention of injury to the nail is very important. Once the nail is damaged, the door of susceptibility swings open, allowing the entry of the fungus. There are some very simple preventive measures can be taken regularly. Keep your feet dry. Keep your feet dry inhibits the ability of the fungus to develop. You can do this in several ways. Frequent changes of socks, the use of powder, like talc and rotation of fashionable shoes to take them only every other day, can help tremendously.

Medications for onychomycosis into two categories, topical and oral. There are a number of effective counter topical medications. Topical medications are most useful in the treatment of early infections, small and make a few pounds. Topical medications have a limited ability to penetrate the nail to reach all elements of fungi. The drug inhibits the growth of fungus topical given the rapid development of the nail. Remember, the fungus is not removed one day. Compliance is a big issue when using topical antifungals.