Diabetes Mellitus- Complications of Diabetes -II

2. Boils and Carbuncles:

Recurrent boils and carbuncles may be the first indication of diabetes. The factors responsible for this complicatino are :
a.) high glucose level in the blood vessels of the skin and
b.) poor resistance power against pus-forming micro organisms

3. Acute gangrene:

Gangrene is defined as the death of a mass of tissue or an organ. Gangrene of a toe or a foot is 50 to 60 times more common in diabetes than in healthy persons. Without proper care, even a trivial injury to a toe or foot may terminate into gangrene. Narrowing of the blood vessels, poor resistance power and untoward changes of the nervous system are said to be responsible for such proneness of diabetes to gangrene. Gangrene usually necessitates amputation of the affected part to keep the patient alive. Before the advent of insulin fifty percent of the diabetes would have died if gangrene supervened.

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