Diabetic foot ulcers and sepsis.

Diabetic foot ulcers can cause serious infections sometimes. They can cause sepsis, which is essentially a severe infection affecting the body, and that can be serious and can require very urgent treatment. In that situation, there are usually signs of infection in the foot, so the foot is usually very hot, red, swollen, could be painful but could not be painful. There's often signs of pus or there could be a lot of swelling in the area of the ulcer. And someone with sepsis would feel very unwell in themselves. Cold, shivery, uncontrollable shakes, hot, sweating, dizzy, weak, high temperature. Urine might be darker than usual, might be increased thirst. And this is a, if someone develops sepsis, it an urgent requirement to be admitted to hospital to receive antibiotics intravenously directly into the veins and often what is required here is some surgical debridement of the infected tissue, some surgical removal of the infected tissue. It's often urgent if someone has sepsis that they see a surgeon quickly within within 24 hours of admission to consider whether surgery is required to remove the infected tissue in the foot. Through prompt surgical treatment and prompt intravenous antibiotics, again very frequently infected feet causing sepsis can be salvaged and saved.