It is a well-known fact that Diabetes is on the increase in
Australia. However, people are still not clear on the serious
impacts this chronic disease can have on their feet. The feet
being the furthest body part away from our eyes and reach, it is
susceptible to major issues, particular in the sense of Diabetes
and its potential side effects. Imagine you wake up one morning
and race out to put the bins out. Not thinking, you forgot to
put some shoes on and stand on some glass. Now we take for
granted that we can always feel pain, but in some instances we
cannot, and we call this Peripheral Neuropathy. Not everyone
will have these issues of insensate feet, but how would you
know? Diabetic foot complications can arise as simple as this, a
cut from a piece of glass, poor feeling resulting in not knowing
and infection sets in, and we have a problem. Further to the
problem, Diabetes other side effect in terms of feet is reduced
circulation. So not only is there an infected cut on the foot,
there is also poor heal