As the number of diabetes patients in China is increasing year by year, Cai Shize, a physician from the Department of Metabolism at Taipei Veterans General Hospital, suggested that patients may wish to test their foot nerve response at home as a basis for follow-up treatment to avoid rapid deterioration of the disease.
It is estimated that there are more than one million diabetic patients in Taiwan. According to Cai Shize, the blood circulation in the peripheral blood vessels of diabetic patients is poor, and the wounds are not easy to heal. In severe cases, they may even face the fate of amputation, septic shock and death.
However, the foot is the most remote part of the body and is often overlooked. Medical staff do not pay attention to the importance of foot care, and do not do a good foot examination when seeing a doctor or engaging in health education. According to statistics, about 1% of patients with type 2 diabetes who have been ill for more than 10 years will "stumble" due to lack of proper foot care, and half of them will fail to recover. Therefore, it is necessary to remind patients not to "stumble forever". ".
Lin Ruixiang, an honorary professor of the National Taiwan University School of Medicine, once designed a foot sensor detector that meets domestic needs based on foreign products. Through the nylon thread on the sensory sensitive area of the foot, it can detect the patient's neurological response; See a doctor for more detailed examination and treatment to control the condition early.
Li Biyun, a health teacher from the Diabetes Care Foundation, said that there are more than ten sensory sensitive areas on the soles of each foot. During the test, the diabetic patients can sit or lie down, and the family members hold the sensory detectors on the soles of the feet to check one by one. Each sensitive area is probed for more than 2 seconds, and then the patient's conscious response is used to judge the neural response. She emphasized that only about 10 grams of pressure should be exerted during probing, and normal people can feel it. If the sensitive area does not feel the pressure, it is considered abnormal.
Comment
Foot ulceration is a disease that does not exist at all. It is completely a sequela caused by Western medicine (please refer to HT-24). Diabetics can be cured as long as they seek Chinese medicine treatment. If you use Western medicine to control your blood sugar, you I made the first mistake. After years of using blood sugar drugs, the excess blood sugar will be deposited on the feet. So as long as there is a small wound on the toe, it will not heal. Later, it was like the former President Chiang Ching-kuo In the same way, you still have to be amputated before you die, and the result is miserable. But if you reach this stage, if you find excellent Chinese medicine treatment on the eve of amputation, there is still a chance that the treatment will improve, so don't be discouraged.
