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5 important tips to avoid blisters on your feet if you have diabetes.

  • By Sheryl Colaco
  • 13 Mar, 2020
In addition to following a healthy diet and drinking plenty of water while enjoying the summers, these tips will help you maintain the health of your feet:

1. Avoid wearing ill-fitting shoes or restrictive socks that can block blood flow to the feet and lower legs. Always remember: Never go barefoot! Always wear shoes.

2. Perform preventative foot care every day by washing your feet with mild soap and warm water, drying your feet thoroughly, and removing moisture between your toes using a dry cloth. Constant dampness between the toes promotes fungal infections, open wounds, and skin ulcers, water bubbles (blisters)

3. Ensure your toenails are trimmed to prevent them from cutting your skin or developing into ingrown toenails. Cut your toenails straight across but not too short. File your toenails with an emery board to remove snags that could catch on socks and tear the nail away from the toe.

4. Sprinkle some anti fungal powder in your socks and shoes to absorb excess moisture before engaging in physical activity.

5. Apply GoHeal Ointment every night to your feet from the shin to your toes as preventative care for diabetic feet. It helps in maintaining healthy foot skin and promotes efficient blood circulation to hydrate your feet with nutrients while you are sleeping. This takes you to healthy feet for your next day.

Even the smallest wounds affecting the feet of diabetics require immediate attention using proper foot care for diabetics. Talk to us about GoHeal www.goheal.co to get your wound care ointment delivered to your front door, to promote wound healing at home.
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The video has been taken in real time, so please pardon the background sound of vehicles.

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With you in your pain,
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I walked into our GoHeal Wound & Burn Care Center this morning, as I do everyday & immediately met with all our wound patients who had arrived to show themselves to our wound specialists at the center.

While I met with all and looked at every wound along with our doctors, a pattern hit my mind.

Wounds appeared similar. The odour from the wound was also quite similar, along with the edema oozing. We observed this pattern since the beginning of July 2019 and realised that history was repeating itself from what we saw last July 2018.

We then figured out that all wounds that the diabetics were coming in with, were due to the rising humidity levels in the air as well as rain water. So, folks please remember that PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN FINDING A CURE. Ensure your feet are always well protected from wetness & from rain water. It is impossible to be a 100% safe for this, so I recommend each of us to dry our feet as soon as we can. Dry them well (after a thorough wash with clean water and a soap - any bathing soap should help if you don’t have an ongoing bacterial infection)

Husbands, please inspect your wives feet at the end of the day. Wives, do so with your husbands feet. Sons and daughters, Please ensure you don’t go to bed without inspecting your dad/ mom/ grandpa/ grandma’s feet at the end of each day. At the least observed cut, or skin color changes, take action to prevent aggravation.

This way, I am positive that we will see lesser wounded patients coming in to get treated with us, because you have taken better care of yourselves and your loved ones.

For more information please visit www.goheal.co or call ‭+91 98454 95569‬.

Sheryl Colaço
Colaço Healthcare Pvt Ltd
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