Contents:
- Medical Video: Diabetes skin care tips.
- Effects of diabetes on the skin
- How to treat diabetic people's skin
- 1. Protect yourself from extreme weather
- 2. Make first aid for your skin
- 3. How to treat blistered diabetic skin
Medical Video: Diabetes skin care tips.
Diabetes can make your skin dry, which means you can get hurt easily, tend to get infected, and need more time to heal. Follow the tips for caring for your skin and to keep it healthy.
Effects of diabetes on the skin
Diabetes can affect the health of your skin. Lack of moisture can cause the skin to become dry and cracked. It is very important to dry your legs and face after bathing or swimming.
You can use petroleum jelly or moisturizer. However, be careful, moisturizing creams that do not dry out because they are still left between the folds of the skin or can cause infection. Why can it be an infection?
People with diabetes may be more prone to ulcers, infections of the hair follicles (folliculitis), wounds, and nail infections. Diabetics have a high risk of bacterial infections, including Staph (Staphylococcus), compared with the general population.
Warm and moist folds on the skin are prone to yeast or yeast infections. You are most likely to get this type of infection between your fingers and toes, groin, armpits, or in the corners of your mouth. Symptoms include redness, blisters, and itching.
Basically, the condition of this infection is rare unless caused by the death of nerve cells and disruption of blood flow below the surface of the skin. Skin infections can occur in any part of the body, but are more common in the legs. Usually this condition will disappear when your blood sugar is controlled.
How to treat diabetic people's skin
1. Protect yourself from extreme weather
In Indonesia, hot weather can sting and damage the skin. To protect and treat your diabetic people's skin from extreme weather (hot and cold) do not forget to wear clothes that cover hands, feet, and hats. You can also follow the following instructions:
- Use lipbalm to prevent chapped lips. To prevent dry skin when the temperature drops, use a room humidifier to add moisture to warm the air in the room.
- When you take a shower, use warm water (not heat) and moisturizing soap that contains light ingredients for the skin.
- Don't take a long bath.
- Pat the skin to dry - don't rub it.
- After bathing and drying the body, use a mild moisturizer to prevent dry skin.
- Avoid scratching dry skin. Better to apply, apply moisturizer like aloe gel which is cool on the skin
- If you are prone to acne, talk to your dermatologist / beauty before choosing facial moisturizers. Some can cause acne or make it worse.
- Use products labeled "noncomedogenic" or "nonacnegenic" to treat diabetic people's skin, especially on the face
2. Make first aid for your skin
To treat diabetic people's skin, you should always be responsive to help when there is a skin problem, you must keep first aid equipment close to you to treat your hands and feet. Included in first aid include:
- antibacterial ointment
- gauze
- hypoallergenic plaster
- wet tissue cleanser (for preparation if soap and water are not available)
3. How to treat blistered diabetic skin
Don't try to press the wound. The skin covering the blisters filled with fluids protects against infection. Gently clean the part with soap and warm water.
Apply an antibacterial ointment to the blisters. Cover with a cloth or gauze bandage. Protect with plaster made from hypoallergenic. Change bandages at least once a day.If the blisters are on your feet and come from your shoes, use other footwear to heal.
