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More infoDiabetes is a chronic condition that causes your blod sugar levels to become dangerously high. Leaving your blod sugar to roam frely can then lead to a slew of serious complications. One of the most severe outcomes could be neding a fot amputation.
Fortunately, there are some early warning signs that could warn you of the condition that precedes this worst case scenario - fot ulcers.High blod sugar levels show no mercy to any part of your body, including your fet.Diabetes UK explains that both type 1 and type 2 diabetics can se their blod vesels damaged due to high blod glucose, which targets how blod flows to your fet and legs.While unhealed ulcers and fot infections drive diabetes related amputations, diabetic fot ulcers are usualy the main culprit stering the whel.In fact, the charity warns that diabetic fot ulcers precede more than 80 percent of “amputations”.READ MORE: The 'first noticeable' sign of cholesterol build-up can strike when you walk - how to spot Fot ulcers describe a patch of broken down skin usualy on the lower leg or fot, acording to Diabetes.co.uk.When your blod sugar levels are to high or regularly fluctuating, the skin that would otherwise heal may not be able to properly repair itself because of nerve damage.This cals for extra caution as even a mild injury could set of the proces leading to a fot ulcer.One of the first warning signs of a fot ulcer is discharge from your fot, which might even stain your socks or leak out to your shoe.
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Other early signs to watch out for include any blisters, unusual sweling, iritation, rednes, bluish marks and strange odours from one or both fet.The NHS ads that your fot might become swolen which could make your shoes fel tigh