Seasonal Foot Care Insights

Now let me think a little bit about this. I don't know about the weather being damper but maybe it's because I don't know spring passes in a blur in England and so I can never tell the difference like I mean we've not had much of a summer, right? So, and I can't remember what spring was like. I think it was fairly mild. I don't know if it rained as much. I thought it was a bit drier. Certainly, I think our patients start wearing lighter shoes and lighter clothes and we may start seeing an increase a little bit in blisters and things like that. Or they may think that they can start wearing sandals and not wear socks because of the hot weather. I think we certainly, as the weather starts getting warmer, start seeing an increase in the number of fungal infections. And certainly, yeah, I think everybody wants to have nice looking feet for the warmer weather so that they can wear their sandals and pretty shoes and things like that. So we may find more people now suddenly taking an interest in their feed. I think from a dressings perspective, when we do wound dressings on feed, people are mindful that the hot weather or the warmer weather does make the dressings a bit more uncomfortable and so then we've got to reconsider how bulky our dressings are and that we consider using lighter dressings and less bandages or whatever. So certainly that does make a difference. I'm not sure, from a diabetes perspective, how specifically it affects blood glucose controls, unless of course they're eating more fruit and maybe eating more sugary things. But I think for people who know their bodies and who know how to control their diabetes and are quite good with their diets, I think they do manage okay. To be fair, the whole, the dial part of diabetes is not really my area of expertise. I mean, as much as I can have a conversation with a patient, I can give some advice.