Blog posts tagged with 'diabetes'

Necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum (NLD) is a granulomatous skin disease found in diabetic patients.  The prevalence of NLD is quite rare being found in less than 0.3% of all diabetics.(1)  Fifty percent of all diabetic patients with NLD are insulin dependent.

What causes necrobiosis lipoidica diab...

Walking, sunshine and diabetic peripheral neuropathy.

Walking – how could something so simple be so effective?  Robert Roy Britt in his Medium article entitled The Case for Walking – small steps yield big benefits, focuses on studies that prove that point. Britt describes the work of Brigham and W...

Part 3 - Treatment of diabetic peripheral neuropathy

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Diabetic peripheral neuropathy is the most common complication of both type 1 (T2DM) and type 2 (T2DM) diabetes.  Diabetes causes a number of different neuropathic complications to include sympathetic and parasympathetic autonomic...

Part 2 - Examination guidelines for physicians and midlevel providers

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In part 1 of this three-part blog on the treatment of patients with diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) we discussed the economic impact of diabetic peripheral neuropathy, the pathophysiology of DPN and staging of DP...

Diabetic Foot Cream acts to suppress the symptoms of diabetic peripheral neuropathy. The active ingredient in Diabetic Foot Cream is capsaicin. Capsaicin is small oil soluble molecule that is found in the filament of hot peppers where the seeds of the pepper are held to the central core of the pepper. This article explores the use of hot peppers in diabetic skin care products.