What is Diabetes?
Diabetes is a result of the body’s inability to produce insulin. Insulin is a hormone that allows your body to turn glucose or sugar into energy. If your body has problems in metabolising glucose, it can lead to high blood sugar levels.
Diabetes makes you more likely to have sores and ulcers. Ulcers are open sores (also referred to as wounds) on your skin that don’t heal the way they should. You are most likely to get ulcers in your feet and legs, but they can also form in other areas, like your hands or in folds of skin on your stomach. There are several reasons why diabetes raises your odds of getting ulcers. One of the main symptoms of diabetes is high blood sugar (also called blood glucose). Over time, high blood sugar levels can damage your nerves and blood vessels that lessen blood flow (especially to your hands, feet and limbs), which makes it harder for sores and cuts to heal. It makes you more likely to get infection too. Diabetes is linked to a condition called peripheral arterial disease (PAD), which lessens blood flow to your legs and feet.
Images Of Some Diabetic Wounds We Have Managed
How we manage Ulcers/Diabetic wounds @ LTIMC
- Our medical team keeps your blood sugar under control and close monitoring: In addition to reducing your risk of ulcers, tight blood sugar monitoring and control helps your body heal existing ulcers so we try our possible best to monitor your blood sugar and also keep it under control by running a random blood sugar check, fasting blood sugar check, glucose tolerance test and HBA1c test for our client/patient either at home or in the hospital facility.
- Our caregivers/nurses assist in dressing a client/ patient ulcers: By cleaning the affected part with saline, sterile cotton wool, and sterile gauze and also applying topical gel or antibiotics medication to the wound on a daily basis to aid in fast healing.
- Our medical team protect the wound from bacterial infection and other infections: We try our possible best to protect your wound from bacteria by covering your wound or ulcers with a clean and sterile bandage after wound dressing and also prescribing antibiotics that suit your wound.
- Our medical team prevent an ulcer from being infected with gangrene: We provide utmost care and monitor your wound or ulcers for discolouring and numbness to prevent dead tissue within the affected part which might result to gangrene and finally lead to amputation of the affected part.
This is a typical image of a leg infected with gangrene 
- Our radiologist runs a periodic doppler ultrasound check on our client for vascular assessment
- Our ophthalmologist monitors the visual assessment of our client
- Our medical team counsel patient and improves their psychological well-being
- Our physiotherapy team helps clients to improve mobility and functionability
OUR AIM
To help all diabetic patients/clients recover fully and live a healthy and happy life.
Never take chances when it comes to diabetic foot ulcers and other diabetes-related wounds or resulting in self-medication. If you see signs of infection, numbness or difficulty in using your foot, schedule a consultation/meeting with us by using this website contact page
