Question about diabetic foot wound?

Question

My mother has a foot wound in her heel that's approximately one inch deep. She has type 1 diabetes and insists on walking, despite her condition.

She has no social vices and keeps her diabetes under control, but she's nearing three years with this wound and wants to know if there's anything she can do to make it heal that doesn't require six months of bed rest?

My mum is 53, and the wound is not infected. Her doctors have been mostly unhelpful, so if anyone has had success with similar issues, that would be of the greatest assistance.

Answer 1

She is asking for trouble if it hasn't healed in three years and she is still walking on it!! Bed rest isn't necessary in every case. Have her try crutches to keep her weight off it. Or if she can't manage crutches try a Walker. She may hate it but it will be worth it if it saves her foot. My diabetes is well controlled but I got a foot wound last year and within a month lost two thirds of my foot. Good control is not a guarantee!

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Answer 4

Get the doctor involved and see about getting a home care wound nurse to stop by the house. Walking and or bearing weight on this wound is a bad idea. Doing things to promote circulation will help healing, however, know that healing is slow in diabetics and will take quite a good amount of time. What complicates such issues is diabetic neuropathy. In advanced type I, the patient loses sensation in the extremities and this makes foot wounds worse and a threat to overall health of the limb and the patient.

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Answer 6

RE:
Question about diabetic foot wound?
My mother has a foot wound in her heel that's approximately one inch deep. She has type 1 diabetes and insists on walking, despite her condition.

She has no social vices and keeps her diabetes under control, but she's nearing three years with this wound and wants to know if there's...

Answer 7

Ah best thing to do is heed dr's advice.my story is very similiar to share. In all honesty it should be wrapped and keep wound clean as possible. Know this if ever she should
go to hospital or catch a super bug virus ,then what would her action be to taking care of the problem. This will grow and grow into a deeper ulcer, perhaps leading to amputee
and then to heal from that. Nothing is guaranteed.Including the physical healing

Answer 8

Your mother needs to see a doctor right away,the wound should have healed 2 and a half years ago.there is something in side of the wound, that's why it has not healed yet.

Answer 9

Your mom`s age?
I tried with success local injections of very limited dose of long acting insulin into the edges of the ulcer and scraping a little bit of base of the ulcer if necessary with a local anesthetic. Regular dressing is also needed..
Diabetic ulcers are neuropathic and often painless.

Answer 10

after three years, it's a miracle she still has a foot to walk on. she better do whatever the doctor tells her she needs to do or she will lose her foot. it happens all the time