The skin changes of diabetes patients

Author: wer

After diabetes, 30% ~ 80% of patients have skin damage. If the skin damage is often the precursor to diabetes, so to arouse people's attention.

Skin infections
Diabetes, the patient's blood glucose increased the glycogen content of the skin also increased, so that'll mold, bacterial infection and create a good environment.

1 / 3 of diabetes patients, complicated skin infections. For example, patients often suffer from swollen boils, folliculitis, impetigo and other bacterial infections and carbuncle. Diabetic patients are often in the oral part of "thrush." Thrush is a known as the "Candida" caused by the fungal infection. Candida infection can also occur in the nails, male genitalia glans.
There are fungal infection, patients with diabetes-prone hand ringworm, tinea corporis, tinea corporis, tinea pedis disease such as ringworm.

Skin itching

Diabetic patients with symptoms of skin itching, or the patient's 1 / 5. This is a kind of generalized pruritus, and very stubborn. In early diabetes, the itching is very common symptoms. When a patient after treatment, significantly ease the condition, the skin may gradually disappear itching.

Paresthesia

1 / 10 of the diabetic patients with peripheral nerve lesions. Such as paresthesia, including skin numbness, a sense of acupuncture, such as pain or burning feeling, especially in the patient's foot and more prone to feel abnormal. Therefore, some patients found that in the absence of diabetes before the first regular skin checks. Lower extremities of patients have reduced or no sweating Khan; when relative humidity increased, the increased sweating in other parts of patients.

Bullous disease of diabetic

Diabetes is a disease of bullae occurred in patients with skin complications hands. This blister suddenly, there were no recurrent symptoms. Vesicular size, thin-walled blisters, blister fluid is clarified, the blisters did not flush out. In general after a few weeks can be self-healing, or dissipated in the skin pigmentation on the left over there.

Bullous disease that often occurred in the long course of diabetes, the body and poor patients with serious complications, so patients with poor prognosis and even cause deaths.

Diabetic rash

Such skin changes occurred in the leg in front. Is the beginning of the round or oval dark red papules, diameter of only about 0.3 centimeters. Some of these papules scattered there, and some cluster together, apparently dander. Rash subsided, the skin lead to local atrophy or pigmentation.