The commonest disorder of nerves in both type 1 and type 2 diabetes, is the disorder of sensation. Nerve disease where many nerves are involved, is called diffuse neuropathy and is the most common form of diabetic neuropathy. Distal refers to being far away from the center of your body, so distal neuropathy is a disease of the nerves presenting in your hands and feet.
Signs of distal neuropathy include:
lessened ability to even feel light touch, or even the position of your foot
the inability to feel pain or temperature
tingling and burning sensation
extreme sensitivity to touch
any weakness
symptoms feel worse at night
The danger is you do not know without looking, whether or not there is trauma to your feet. And that could be any trauma such as standing on a rough stone or a piece of glass. Often you are not aware you have this problem, that you have lost sensation in your feet ... it is usually picked up during nerve conduction studies.
Neuropathic foot ulcers are the most serious complication of the loss of sensation in your feet.
At the Wound Care and Rehabilitation Medicine Center in Philadelphia, the aim of all the health care professionals is to get their patients back to normal, to full function, with wounds completely healed, as quickly as possible.
Robert Goldman, MD is no exception. He started noticing positive effects of wound healing by using hyperbaric oxygen therapy and decided to investigate it more thoroughly.
You may not be familiar with hyperbaric oxygen therapy ... it takes place in a closed unit, somewhat similar in appearance to a MRI chamber but with a clear covering, where the patient is fully enclosed. Inside this chamber is a level of oxygen higher than the concentration in the air.
Michael Jackson was known for his use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy. When he had to deal with serious burns to his head, he received this therapy and that is the main reason these burns healed so quickly.
Many infections don't heal because they are caused by anaerobic bacteria, which is bacteria that thrives in an oxygen-free environment. When this particular bacteria is then exposed to higher than normal oxygen levels the wounds heal very quickly.
Dr. Goldman did a review of scientific literature and found the use of hyperbaric oxygen therapy in diabetics with foot ulcers complicated by surgical infection, worked well ... it clearly reduced the chance of amputation.
If you are in a situation where treatment does not appear to be healing your foot ulcer, please keep the following in mind:
about 70% of lower-leg amputations performed in 2003 were on people with diabetes according to The Federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
with good care amputations can be avoided
ask your physician about you receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy
The key to preventing and treating neuropathy is to get your type 2 diabetes under control.
A healthy eating plan and exercise can be very powerful. At California's Weimar Institute of Health and Education, twenty-one patients with peripheral neuropathy did two things, followed a healthy diabetic eating plan and took daily thirty minute walks. Within two weeks, legs pain stopped completely in seventeen of these patients, and the remaining four had some relief.
If you would like to download a free copy of my E-Book, click here now: Answers to Your Questions ... its based on questions diabetics have asked me over the last few months.
Beverleigh Piepers is a registered nurse who would like to help you understand how to live easily and happily with your type 2 diabetes.
http://drugfreetype2diabetes.com
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