Sparing the details, a colleague of mine recently had his big toe amputated due to diabetes. I wondered why being diabetic could lead to this as it’s common.
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Diabetes disrupts your blood flow to extremities. Bad blood flow = poor healing. Diabetes also affects nerves. This creates a perfect storm of not feeling wounds and them not healing. They then get infected and in worst cases need to be amputated.
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