My experience suggest that unless the infection is caught REALLY early it will end in amputation. Your friend is not at really early.
Part of the issue is that reduced circulation (a given in diabetes) reduces the oxygen in the tissue. That allows anaerobic bacteria (those that don't need oxygen) to flourish. We are indeed talking about gangrene, just to mention one.
Please support your friend in getting the appropriate medical advice and taking it. It must be a moment of severe panic just now, to go from an owie foot to diabetes and a possible amputation.
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Date: 2009-08-04 02:20 am (UTC)My experience suggest that unless the infection is caught REALLY early it will end in amputation. Your friend is not at really early.
Part of the issue is that reduced circulation (a given in diabetes) reduces the oxygen in the tissue. That allows anaerobic bacteria (those that don't need oxygen) to flourish. We are indeed talking about gangrene, just to mention one.
Please support your friend in getting the appropriate medical advice and taking it. It must be a moment of severe panic just now, to go from an owie foot to diabetes and a possible amputation.
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