Julie Bove > wrote:

: "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!
You don't go barefoot and so are watching your feet. Just be careful not
to drop anything heavy onto your foot. I also know a diabetic man, a
custodian, who lost not only a foot, but part of a leg from havign a heavy
object dro on his foot and the subsequent, diabetes exaceerbated infection
led to the usual pattern of gangrene and amutation. It is one of the
hazards of uncontrolled diabetes,

I assume that your father and our brother, who you referenced did live in
your house when you were growing up and got the no barefoot word from your
mother. As to your other reletives, kI don't know them so I guess I don't
really care.

Wendy