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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The extra sugar causes circulation issues in the small arteries which can cause injuries to not heal or cells to start dying. It’ll only get worse so they have to remove the affected tissue otherwise it will go necrotic.
The way it was explained to me was that the sugar is jagged and damages the arteries and get stuck together in the narrow ones at your extremities, blocking blood flow.
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