A Study of Awareness of foot care in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and presence of diabetic neuropathy.

Dr Nisanth K; Dr Divya Krishnan

Volume : VII, Issue : IX, September - 2018

A Study of Awareness of foot care in patients with Type 2 diabetes mellitus and presence of diabetic neuropathy.

Dr Nisanth K, Dr Divya Krishnan

Abstract :

Diabetes Mellitus is the most commonly encountered disease today in our country. In today�s world where there is little time for you to maintain the Health, majority of the time this disease is diagnosed accidentally. Diabetes is a state where glucose level is abnormally high in the serum. This may be a cause of defective insulin production or regulation. On the other hand, can be due to defective non–functioning receptors. Anyways one of the many complications of this dreaded disease is peripheral neuropathy where the patient does not understand the peripheral pain and as a result cannot appreciate any insults to the extremities. This study puts in an effort to understand the awareness of foot care in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and presence of diabetic neuropathy.