How Long After Diabetic Foot Amputation Can I Heal?

After a diabetic foot amputation, this condition mostly heals in about 20 days, depending on the level of blood sugar, if the blood sugar level is not well controlled, the healing may be slower.

1. Methods of diabetic foot amputation:

1. For diabetic foot with severe infection or progression to infected foot or bad maggot foot, the amputation level is determined according to the patient's condition after one week of antibiotics.

2. Due to the different surgical methods chosen, the amputation plane is also different. The extent of diabetic foot amputation should be based on the patient's condition, combined with the patient's and family's wishes, and the amputation level should be comprehensively considered. If the body is severely injured by a necrotic foot or an infected foot, the plane is cut off after 1 week of antibiotics **1 week and 1 week of systemic disease, depending on the stability of the lesion.

2. Reasons for non-healing of diabetic foot wounds:

1. Vascular lesions: ischemia does not heal, it is necessary to open the blood vessels, minimally invasive balloon dilation, or implant a stent to directly open the wound blood vessels, and the wound gradually heals with increased blood vessels.

2. Peripheral neuropathy: including bone destruction, bones need to be reconstructed, including joint treatment, which is the treatment method of orthopedics.

After a diabetic foot amputation, the wound will heal completely in about a month if the blood** is relatively good. This mainly depends on the blood flow in the lower limbs of the diabetic patient, on the one hand, the infection is not completely controlled. On the other hand, control blood sugar and take hypoglycemic drugs, such as acarbose, metformin, glipizide, etc.

The cost of diabetic foot amputation is about 3-50,000 yuan, and the cost of surgery varies depending on the size or scope of the operation. If the foot is amputated alone, the cost may be relatively small, and if the thigh is amputated, the cost may be higher.

After diabetic foot amputation, there will be other costs, such as strengthening blood sugar control, anti-infection, and local dressing changes, etc., and the cost is relatively high, so the total cost of diabetic foot amputation patients may reach more than 4-50,000 yuan during the entire hospitalization.

Preamble: After diabetes, it is easy to have some complications. Diabetic foot is one of the more common complications, and if severe, there is a high chance that the limb will be amputated.

Therefore, we must pay attention to the fact that after suffering from diabetes, we must control our blood sugar, so as to prevent other dangers. Let's share with you, what can you do if you want to avoid amputation?

For some diabetics, they may suffer from foot diseases such as athlete's foot and athlete's foot. Therefore, we need to pay special attention to the fact that if it is athlete's foot, it is very easy to cause foot infection, breed more bacteria, and easily cause diabetic foot. Therefore, if there is a foot disease, you need to be in time, no matter what type it is, don't wait for the disease to heal by itself.

You need to go to the hospital and ask for help from the doctor in time so that you can prevent bigger problems.

If diabetic foot is present, it means that the blood sugar control is not particularly ideal, so it has caused some damage to the blood circulation of the foot. In this case, everyone must learn to control blood sugar well. Amputation can only be avoided if your blood sugar is well controlled.

We need to consume a certain amount of nutrients every day, but we must avoid excessive sugar intake. When you eat fruits and vegetables, you can check the calorie meter, so that you can control the calories and avoid bad situations from happening to us.

The foot is a very important organ of the body, and once amputated, it can have a great impact on our daily life. Therefore, everyone must do a good job of cleaning their feet and change shoes and socks frequently. We should develop good living habits, soak our feet in hot water for about half an hour every night, and keep our feet in a clean and dry state.

When you have symptoms of infection such as redness, swelling, heat and pain, you should go to the hospital in time.

If you find diabetic foot, you need to go to the hospital for relevant treatment in time, take hypoglycemic drugs on time every day, go to the hospital for physical examination regularly, adopt relevant methods according to the doctor's instructions, and adjust your diet, control your blood sugar levels, strengthen appropriate exercise, and make the body more resistant, so that you can avoid amputation.

**Diabetic foot must adopt the methods of combination of traditional Chinese and Western medicine, combination of whole and local, combination of internal and external treatment. Western medicine is characterized by strong and clear curative effects, especially in controlling blood sugar, fighting infection, and improving circulation, which cannot be compared with Chinese medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has a definite effect on the establishment of collateral circulation, the removal of saprophytic muscle, and wound healing, and the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine can often solve problems that are difficult to solve by Western medicine through syndrome differentiation and treatment.

It can be carried out with medication**, or to understand the situation of this disease in advance, and to prevent it from all aspects of life, and observe the lesions of the disease.

In such a situation, such a diabetic drug should be used, and secondly, a reasonable ** should be carried out, and the hospital should be checked in time.

First of all, I want to say that diabetic foot can be cured without amputation! The purpose of amputation is to save life, unless the wound does not heal after the amputation and the limb needs to be amputated again, which is very risky. Severe infections caused by nonhealing wounds after amputation can lead to low-grade fever and coma, leading to death.

Diabetic foot can be cured without amputation. So I would like to emphasize again that the following patient could have had his leg not amputated, but unfortunately he had already had an amputation elsewhere, but after a conventional surgical amputation, he was sutured up and became infected again. If you are considering whether to have an amputation, please do not amputate it.

Unless it has been completely gangrene.

We insist on not amputating the diabetic foot.

Hard. Diabetes causes lesions in tissues such as bones and muscles, blood vessels, etc. Simply and plainly speaking, it is leg ischemia.

Osteoporosis and diabetic foot are prone to gangrene.

You didn't say if you had gangrene or not. If there is gangrene, basically 9% of it will be cut off. Gangrene can cause a state of poisoning throughout the body. And gangrene spreads. Diabetes is a terrible disease.

Diabetic foot amputation is a very common method, many sugar friends after suffering from diabetic foot, knowing that there will be such a result, so they no longer look for other methods, thinking about cutting it off, cutting off the rotten part, and leaving the good one, it sounds like once and for all, simply and neatly.

However, after diabetic foot amputation, the infection is not necessarily controllable, and it is also a problem that patients need to consider and face.

Only by controlling blood sugar can we pay attention to diet and exercise, and now many elderly people have their limbs amputated because of this.

Diabetic foot is one of the common complications of diabetes, and its ** is diabetic vasculitis, which is manifested as arteriovenous vascular occlusion, mainly arteries, with extensiveness, that is, many blood vessels are involved, especially at the small arterioles, especially the lower limbs are easy to occlude, which means that amputation does not ensure the survival of the limbs. So, diabetes is all about preventing complications, and once they occur, they are difficult to reverse.

Diabetic patients with rotten feet must go to the hospital for further examination to decide whether to amputate the limb. If it is just an ulceration of the epidermis, the wound may be healed through debridement, dressing change, blood sugar control, and unclogging of blood vessels.

However, if you don't go to the hospital for a check-up and your blood sugar is not well controlled, your feet may develop very quickly. Once it has progressed to the bone marrow, there is a problem with the bone or it is rotten, and it may eventually require amputation.

As for whether amputation is necessary, it is important to ask the doctor, especially the orthopedic doctor, to do the final examination and test to see if the final amputation is needed, or if local debridement is required, and some drugs can be treated.