Contents:
- Medical Video: Foot problems common among diabetics
- Actually, what is dry diabetes and wet diabetes?
- Difference between wet diabetes and dry diabetes
- Dry diabetes
- Wet diabetes
Medical Video: Foot problems common among diabetics
Indonesian people are very accustomed to hearing the term wet diabetes and dry diabetes. Although both are equally intended for diabetes, most people think that these two diabetics are different. Did you know that the term wet and dry diabetes is not in the medical world. Then, is there a difference?
Actually, what is dry diabetes and wet diabetes?
The term wet and dry diabetes arises because of differences in conditions in patients who have diabetes mellitus. Another term that is also often used in society is diabetes and sugar which both refer to diabetes.
The difference in conditions in diabetics is caused by differences in blood sugar levels in each sufferer. In diabetics who have lower sugar levels, when they experience external injuries, the wound will heal quickly and dry. This condition is called dry diabetes.
For patients who have high sugar levels, when they are injured, these wounds will be difficult to heal. This condition is called wet diabetes.
If the term wet and dry diabetes is not known in medical terms, then what is the correct term for distinguishing diabetes? In medical terms, three types of diabetes are known, namely gestational diabetes, type 1 diabetes, and type 2 diabetes.
Wet and dry diabetes is a term that refers to the wound condition that occurs in diabetics. Dry diabetes has a dry wound. While wet diabetes has a wet wound, because usually there is pus above the wound.
Difference between wet diabetes and dry diabetes
Dry diabetes
In dry diabetes, wounds occur because of damage to blood vessels due to prolonged hyperglycemia. This condition causes blood circulation to be disrupted and the wound becomes difficult to heal.
Disturbed blood circulation also inhibits oxygen and nutrients to the tissue around the wound, so that the wound does not heal quickly and can even cause tissue around the wound to die.
People with dry diabetes tend to have thinner bodies. The body of dry diabetics uses fat instead of energy. This is because the hormone insulin cannot prevent glucose from becoming energy. This condition is called the term dry diabetes by most people.
Wet diabetes
Wet diabetes is a continuation of dry diabetes and refers to type 2 diabetes that goes into the advanced stages. The condition is not much different, the difference is that glucose levels in the blood are much higher in wet diabetics than in dry diabetes.
Wet diabetes also affects the elderly, with excessive weight. High sugar levels are the cause of wounds that are difficult to heal. The presence of an infection begins with a wound caused by the bacteria clostridium perfringens or bacillus fusiformis. Infection can occur in skin tissue, nerves, and muscle tissue.
Naturally, infections often arise in moist areas such as the mouth, intestine, lungs, cervix, and also the vulva. However, the most common infections are more common in the foot area.
If wet diabetics have wounds, they will be very difficult to dry out and tend to worsen over time.
This happens because of the presence of bacteria that settles on the wound and eventually multiplies so that the infection gets worse. If left unchecked, this situation can lead to rotting wounds so that the part must be amputated.
