"W. Baker" > wrote in message
...
> Julie Bove > wrote:
> : >> There was an amputee named Guy who used to post here. He claims his
> : >> problem
> : >> started with a fungal infection. Not from eating carbs.
> : >
> : > The individual I spoke of dropped something of his foot. Two
> : > weeks apart on each foot. Got infected. Went into gangerine.
> : > It started with carbs. Guy probably had neuropathy. And
> : > that indeed started with too many carbs.
>
> : No. It didn't start with carbs. It started when he dropped something
> on
> : his feet and then there was the infection. We do not know from there if
> he
> : treated the infection properly. I do not know if Guy had neuropathy or
> not
> : but I do know that he didn't eat a lot of carbs. And he was a type 1!
> He
> : was posting here long before I came here so I only know what he posted
> after
> : I came here. I believe that his wife was Latino and he used to say that
> he
> : couldn't always eat everything that she made. If she made tacos, he
> could
> : eat one.
>
> This is often how the problems that lead to amputation in diabetics get
> started. It is that issue of slow or poor wound healing and dontrolling
> infection. Somthinglike, object dropped on foot, step on object and don't
> feel it, rub off skin, etc. happens and it starts an infection which
> spreads and can't be controlled and leads to gangrene and often
> amputation. why do you think you are told not to wlak barefoot? It is
> part of the prevention of infectionto amputation problem. No, not every
> poorly controlled diabetic has an amputation, but a high percentage of
> amputaions(aside form terrible war injuries) are the result of diabtic
> people beign unable to deal with foot and leg injuries that mean little or
> nothing for non-diabetics.
>
> Why do you think there is alwasy such emphasis on foot care for diabetics
> in literature and in advice given. Yu have alwasy said that no one ws
> allowed to go barefoot in your house as a child, so that could well have
> helped your reletives with diabetes even when they had high bgs.

Those relatives didn't live in my house and I don't know if they went
barefoot or not!