Why do people with Diabetes develop foot problems?

So, in my experience, people develop foot problems for a number of reasons. One is that they perhaps don't engage with their diabetes or understand the diabetes process, and so develop complications alongside that, like nerve damage, meaning that they don't feel things in their feet like they should, they develop some anesthesia in their feet so they can injure their feet with simple things like tight shoes or hot water or going out in hot weather and get sunburn or the cold and because they have anesthesia they don't know that they've done this damage and so they continue to repeat the damage cycle and also added into that we we have this thing around infection. People with diabetes develop infection really rapidly and infection in diabetes and the foot tends to be quite serious quite quickly. So again, we don't have that luxury of time if people overlook infection and maybe don't see their GP because they don't notice the warning signs of a red hot swollen foot or a painful foot because they don't feel it because of their neuropathy. they can develop quite overwhelming infection that can cause quite catastrophic tissue damage very quickly and require hospital admission for intravenous antibiotics.