Prevention of Gangrene Foot from Occuring
What is Gangrene?
The Gangrene of the foot or toes is something that causes disturbance for the patient when it occurs. Gangrene is the death of tissues and cells resulting from preventing or decreasing blood access to the infected part.
What are the Types of Gangrene?
Dry Gangrene: It is caused by chronic circulatory failure.
Moist Gangrene: It is caused by severe circulatory failure or severe foot infections.
Causes of Diabetic Foot Gangrene:
Blood supplies the body tissue with food and oxygen as well as feeding the immune system and transferring antibodies to resist infection. Cells begin to die as a result of the loss of body tissue for food and oxygen. They are also susceptible to bacterial infection as a result of a lack of resistance from the body.
There are many causes of diabetic foot gangrene, including:
- Diabetes.
- Diseases affecting blood vessels.
- Diseases affecting the immune system.
- Chemotherapy for cancer patients.
- Smoking.
- Excessive obesity.
Ways to prevent gangrene foot from occurring
Chronic insufficiency in foot circulation usually occurs in the elderly diabetics, hypertensive patients, smokers, increased cholesterol and triglycerides level in blood, obesity, non-exercise; In order to prevent gangrene in the foot, it is recommended to stop smoking immediately with total control of diabetes and hypertension, exercise periodically, maintain cholesterol and blood pressure levels, eat a healthy diet low in saturated fat while maintaining a healthy weight.
What to do when gangrene occurs?
When gangrene occurs, and the finger color starts to change to the black color, you should immediately visit the vascular surgeon and He will treat such condition. The vascular surgeon takes the pathological history, performs an examination for the peripheral blood vessels with colorful doppler to check the leg arteries, and makes a CT scan on the leg arteries to see where and how long the occlusions are.
Treatment of Gangrene:
First, The treatment of gangrene will be done by treating the failure of circulation using therapeutic catheters to expand the blocked or narrow artery using the balloon with the installation of a stent, and cleaning the damaged tissue.
What is vascular catheter surgery?
It is a procedure carried out through local anesthesia where a thin tube inserted (catheter) in an artery in the thigh or arm, through which the narrow area is photographed and then expanded by the balloon, Sometimes a stent is installed to ensure that the artery remains open. One of its most important features is that it does not usually require general anesthesia where a local anesthesia is administered in the catheter insertion area with a mild sedative; It suits patients whom general anesthesia are not suitable for them as Cardiac patients, its complications are less than those of the surgery, there is no wound, the patient can return home after 24 hours and the patient will have the ability to return to normal activities within a few days.
Any cleaning of gangrene in the presence of circulatory deficiencies is a common crime in Egypt and leads to the spread of gangrene on all feet a few hours after this wrong procedure. Therefore, Patients must be warned to avoid the aggravation of the problem.
To treat diabetic foot gangrene and avoid amputation or complications, it is necessary to visit Dr. Waleed El-Daly as Assistant Professor of Vascular Surgery and Diabetic Foot Treatment at Cairo University. If the problem begins, necessary diagnosis will be performed and treatment will begin. He uses the latest medical standards to treat diabetic foot and diabetic foot gangrene and takes all means to save the foot from amputation and recover faster without having to undergo surgery.
