My dad has a cut on his leg that he got from running into a brick. It really pink around the cut. It won't heal and its been a couple weeks. We've been putting an antibiotic on it and we put proxcide on it every once and a while. He's overweight if that has anything to do with it.
2006-08-08 20:21:58 · 13 answers · asked by angel1919 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Diabetics have trouble healing wounds. Or it may have become infected at some point. He should probably go to a doctor, because if the situation continues to get worse, the leg might have to be amputated.
2006-08-08 20:26:20 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hi, it is possible that your dad could have delayed healing from certain immunological deficiencies, but the most common cause in an overweight person who doesnt heal well is diabetes, and probably a moderate stage of it.
In diabetes, two of the main complications that can occur is diabetic neuropathy and peripheral vascular disease. Thus, when you get hurt/cut, due to the impairment in the nerves and thus the neural conducting pathways, you would not be able to feel any pain and thus would not be alerted to the injury. Thus, it might lead on to secondary infection and not be detected till it becomes visually obvious.
In your dad's case, it seems more likely there is a heavier contributary factor of peripheral vascular disease, where the blood vessels are affected and will not be able to deliver as much nutrients and oxygen to the injured area. Thus healing is compromised. Classically the description of not healing in a few weeks does lead to the suspicion of diabetes mellitus, and it would be prudent to get your dad's blood glucose level checked at a nearby hospital facility.
Hope your dad gets better! :D
2006-08-09 04:04:14 · answer #2 · answered by boingo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
THere are many reason for a cut/injury not healing fast from diabeties to Lukemia. To the Dr's ASAP for some tests... Good luck
2006-08-09 03:27:32 · answer #3 · answered by Spike Spiegel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It could very likely be infected also. A simple urgent care visit to the doc and they can at least do a culture and find out if it is infected and give him oral antibiotics if so. It doesn't necessarily need to be oozing pus to be infected.
2006-08-09 03:40:12 · answer #4 · answered by here_nor_there 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First he should try zinc oxide, my favorite healing ointment. If after a few days, this doesn't work, he should see a doctor. Difficulty in healing could mean diabetes.
2006-08-09 03:26:39 · answer #5 · answered by phoenixheat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he might not be releasing prothrombin or he might have a thrombin problem. perhaps he is anemic. its probably nothing though. just clean the wound then then put antibiotics and let it air out as often as possible. i doubt he has a clotting problem like the ones i stated above.
2006-08-09 03:26:51 · answer #6 · answered by giggssoccer83 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he could have diabetes, because that stops cuts from healing. even if he doesnt, he needs to go to the doctor, it could be a rare/nasty/deadly (after a long period of time obviously) infection
2006-08-09 03:34:36 · answer #7 · answered by Brian H 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
take him to the doctor so they can tell him what to do, but maybe is he diabetic? they sometimes have problems healing..maybe it's infected and in which case ( again) he should see a doctor.
2006-08-09 03:28:08 · answer #8 · answered by ♥ Callie ♥ 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
sounds like diabetes he made have to get check for that my dad is one and he has to watch out for cuts and scrapes
2006-08-09 03:29:03 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He could have diabetes. He needs to go to the doctor.
2006-08-09 03:26:03 · answer #10 · answered by vampire_kitti 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋