effect of diabetes on the skin
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- Long-term effects of diabetes. The most common long-term complications of diabetes include: damage to the large blood vessels of the heart, brain and legs (macrovascular complications) damage to the small blood vessels, causing problems in the eyes, kidneys, feet and nerves (microvascular complications).
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Diabetes and Your Skin Common Skin Conditions Linked to Diabetes. Itching skin, also called pruritus, can have many causes, such as dry skin, poor blood flow, or a yeast infection. When itching is caused by poor blood flow, you’ll likely feel it in your lower legs and feet. Lotion can help to keep your skin soft and moist, and prevent itching due to dry skin. Bacterial infections: Staphylococcus skin infections are more common and more serious in people with poorly controlled diabetes. When hair follicles are irritated, these bacteria can cause boils or an inflamed bump.
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Diabetes and acne The connection between the two becomes clear when we look at how diabetes and acne develop in the body. Diabetes is a condition that causes a person’s blood sugar level (glucose) to become too high because the body cannot process it properly. In a healthy body, a hormone produced by the pancreas called insulin moves glucose out of the blood stream and into the body’s cells, where it is broken down into energy.
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Diabetes symptoms: When diabetes symptoms are a concern Diabetes symptoms sometimes involve your vision. High levels of blood sugar pull fluid from your tissues, including the lenses of your eyes. This affects your ability to focus. Left untreated, diabetes can cause new blood vessels to form in your retina — the back part of your eye — and damage established vessels. For most people, these early changes do not cause vision problems. However, if these changes progress undetected, they can lead to vision loss and blindness. Next.
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Diabetes and the Body Diabetes and the Body. Diabetes affects the body and the body affects diabetes. Click on a body system or body part and see the role that organs, hormones and responses play in ensuring the body functions and how diabetes can affect them.
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Diabetes and eye disease Diabetic retinopathy is caused by damage from diabetes to blood vessels of the retina. The retina is the layer of tissue at the back of the inner eye. It changes light and images that enter the eye into nerve signals, which are sent to the brain.
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Skin Complications These include bacterial infections, fungal infections, and itching. Other skin problems happen mostly or only to people with diabetes. These include diabetic dermopathy, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, diabetic blisters, and eruptive xanthomatosis.
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- Type 2 diabetes is a chronic condition that affects how your body absorbs glucose. Long-term type 2 diabetes can reduce blood flow to the skin, which can cause skin complications. Changes in the skin or cuts that are slow to heal can be signs of a diabetes-related skin condition.
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- skin changes in Addison's disease, with areas of hyperpigmentation, or dark tanning, covering exposed and nonexposed parts of the body; this darkening of the skin is most visible on scars; skin folds; pressure points such as the elbows, knees, knuckles, and toes; lips; and mucous membranes...
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Diabetes - long-term effects 1 Diabetes-related complications include damage to large and small blood vessels, which can lead to heart attack and stroke, and problems with the kidneys, eyes, feet and nerves.  The risk of most diabetes-related complications can be reduced.
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Diabetes and Your Skin Nervous System. Too much glucose circulating in the blood can damage any of the nerves in your body. This can lead to numbness, tingling and pain, especially in the legs and feet. If you develop cuts or sores you may not feel them, and they may heal very slowly.
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- Itchy skin may result from yeast infections, dry skin and poor circulation. Photo Credit Leg care image by MAXFX from <a href='http://www.fotolia.com'>Fotolia.com</a>. According to the Cleveland Clinic, itching skin, also known as pruritus, can have many causes in people with diabetes.
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What is the best treatment for jock itch (tinea cruris)? Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. Many people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in their lives. In some cases, skin problems can be the first sign that a person has diabetes.
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Itchy Skin and Diabetes Itchy Skin and Diabetes. Itchy skin can be exasperated by irritants such as perfume. Itchy skin can be a sign of diabetes, particularly if other diabetes symptoms are also present. High blood sugar levels over a prolong period of time is one cause of itchy skin.
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Overview Subscribe to our Controlling Your Diabetes e-newsletter to stay up to date on diabetes topics. Diabetic retinopathy (die-uh-BET-ik ret-ih-NOP-uh-thee) is a diabetes complication that affects eyes. It's caused by damage to the blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (retina).At first, diabetic retinopathy may cause no symptoms or only mild vision problems. Eventually, it can cause blindness. The condition can develop in anyone who has type 1 or type 2 diabetes.ubscribe to our Controlling Your Diabetes e-newsletter to stay up to date on diabetes topics. Diabetic retinopathy (die-uh-BET-ik ret-ih-NOP-uh-thee) is a diabetes complication that affects eyes. It's caused by damage to the blood vessels of the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye (retina).
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Causes of Diabetic Itching Causes of Diabetic Itching. Itchy skin may result from yeast infections, dry skin and poor circulation. According to the Cleveland Clinic, itching skin, also known as pruritus, can have many causes in people with diabetes.Examples include yeast infections, dry skin and poor circulation.auses of Diabetic Itching. Itchy skin may result from yeast infections, dry skin and poor circulation. According to the Cleveland Clinic, itching skin, also known as pruritus, can have many causes in people with diabetes.
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Diabetes and Your Skin Dry, itchy skin. Dry skin can occur as a result of high blood glucose. When the blood glucose level is high, the body attempts to remove excess glucose from the blood by increasing urination. This loss of fluid from the body causes the skin to become dry.
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- A skin problem is sometimes the first sign that you have diabetes. One of these skin conditions is eruptive xanthomatosis, which can make hands and feet itch. It’s caused by out-of-control diabetes, and it goes away when the disease is managed well. It can also make you itchy on your arms, legs, and buttocks. Other signs of eruptive xanthomatosis: Small, yellow bumps on the skin.
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- Diabetes-related skin conditions include: 1  bacterial infections, such as boils, styes, and folliculitis. 2  fungal infections, such as athlete’s foot, ringworm, and yeast infections. 3  acanthosis nigricans.  diabetic 1  blisters. diabetic dermopathy.  digital sclerosis.
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- Diabetics are susceptible to numerous skin complications caused by symptoms of diabetes. Other symptoms may occur in conjunction with diabetes and itching skin. Fortunately, all diabetes skin conditions can be treated if symptoms are recognized early.
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How Diabetes Can Affect Your Feet Feet are very sensitive to the effects of diabetes. Potential problems include loss of feeling, diminished blood supply and severe infection that requires amputation. According to the 2011 National Diabetes Fact Sheet, more than 60% of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people who have diabetes.
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Skin Complications Other skin problems happen mostly or only to people with diabetes. These include diabetic dermopathy, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, diabetic blisters, and eruptive xanthomatosis. General Skin Conditions Bacterial Infections. Several kinds of bacterial infections occur in people with diabetes: Styes (infections of the glands of the eyelid) Boils
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- Dangers of Diabetes. 1  Gum disease and infections. 2  Vision problems, including a risk of cataracts, glaucoma, and eye infections; a condition called diabetic retinopathy can lead to vision loss or blindness. 3  Neuropathy, or nerve damage, that can cause pain or numbness in your hands and feet.
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Prediabetes & Insulin Resistance People with a severe form of insulin resistance may have dark patches of skin, usually on the back of the neck. Sometimes people have a dark ring around their neck. Dark patches may also appear on elbows, knees, knuckles, and armpits. This condition is called acanthosis nigricans.
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Skin Complications Skin Complications. Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. In fact, such problems are sometimes the first sign that a person has diabetes. Luckily, most skin conditions can be prevented or easily treated if caught early.Some of these problems are skin conditions anyone can have, but people with diabetes get more easily.ungal Infections. The culprit in fungal infections of people with diabetes is often Candida albicans. This yeast-like fungus can create itchy rashes of moist, red areas surrounded by tiny blisters and scales. These infections often occur in warm, moist folds of the skin.