Caring for Your Feet When You're Diabetic

Caring for Your Feet When You're Diabetic

Prevent foot complications from happening to you.diabetic foot care

If you have diabetes, it’s important that you focus on maintaining a healthy lifestyle and keeping your blood sugar levels in check. Our Prosper and McKinney, TX, podiatrists are here to tell you the best ways to keep your feet healthy and complication-free.

Perform Self-Exams on Your Feet

Every day you should take some time to inspect the health of your feet. You should check for open wounds, sores, ulcers, redness, swelling, or any other changes that could quickly turn from something minor to something more serious.

By inspecting your feet every day you are more likely to be able to detect issues early on when you can quickly turn to our Prosper and McKinney foot doctors for care. These self-exams could protect you from infection or other complications.

Avoid Hot Water

A lot of people with diabetes also have some degree of nerve damage in their feet. Regardless of whether you are going to soak in the tub or take a quick shower, it’s important that you use lukewarm and not hot water. Those with nerve damage in their feet can’t often tell how hot or cold the water is. If the water is too hot you could end up burning your feet.

Trim Nails Properly

Keeping toenails trimmed is important but so is how you trim your nails. If you don’t have the proper technique you may end up with an ingrown toenail or an injury. If you have trouble trimming your toenails yourself then you can also turn to a podiatrist to do this for you. If you can trim your toenails yourself make sure not to trim them too short and that you trim them straight across and not at an angle.

Always Wear Shoes and Socks

No matter whether you are out and about or in the comfort of your own home you should always wear shoes and socks to protect your feet. While it might sound like an odd piece of advice to wear shoes and socks at home, if you have nerve damage you could end up injuring your feet and not even noticing. And it’s amazing how quickly a cut or injury to the foot can become more serious quickly if you have diabetes.

Advanced Foot and Ankle Center offers comprehensive foot care services in McKinney and Prosper, TX. If you have questions about caring for your diabetic feet don’t hesitate to call us today.

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Prosper Office

Monday:

8:00 am-12:00 pm

1:00 pm-5:00 pm

Tuesday:

8:00 am-11:30 am

1:30 pm-5:00 pm

Wednesday:

8:00 am-1:00 pm

1:30 pm-5:00 pm

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8:00 am-12:00 pm

1:30 pm-6:30 pm

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8:00 am-12:00 pm

1:00 pm-3:30 pm

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Sunday:

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Monday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Tuesday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Wednesday:

9:00 am-6:30 pm

Thursday:

8:00 am-5:00 pm

Friday:

7:30 am-4:00 pm

Saturday:

Closed

Sunday:

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