windchymes
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Yes, breaking the skin, especially in the extremities, like your feet and lower legs, most definitely CAN cause serious health problems. Diabetes, whatever the type, can cause reduced circulation in the extremities, which impedes healing. (Increasing circulation by exercise, gentle heat and massage such as in a whirlpool bath, etc. can help speed healing.) In hospitals, back in the day (20 years ago) if we couldn't find veins to draw blood in patients' arms, we were allowed to look for veins in the feet and lower legs. Nowadays, that is a big no-no, forbidden, for just that reason. Any breaking of the skin is like opening the Holland Tunnel for bacteria to dive in and set up house, in other words, cause a serious infection. Untreated, or sometimes, even treated, the infection can tunnel down into the skin, and even into the bone if it's an especially strong (virulent) or drug-resistant strain (like MRSA), with time. These wounds are very hard to heal, and many times result in amputation of a toe, toes, half the foot, the whole foot, even the leg from the knee down. I've seen all of these resulting from an infected foot wound that started out as a small pinprick, an insect bite, a blister, a cut, the toenail clippers slipped..... If I were diabetic, I wouldn't be taking any chances. If you really want an eye opener, visit the Wound Care Center of any hospital and take a look at the gaping, open sores and amputation stumps that they're treating. Most of these patients are diabetics that started with a tiny sore.
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