This disease affects nervous, circulatory systems, heart, kidneys and sight.

If you suffer from diabetes and do not change your lifestyle or attend medical controls pay attention, because you are a candidate to lose a limb of your body or worse, life.

This disease that appears silently but controls leads to those who suffer from losing a two feet, fingers and arms.

Statistics The Social Security Fund (CSS) reveal that in 2015 this entity attended 1,449 patients with diabetic foot ulcers.From this total to 59 people were made minor amputations (fingers, before the ankles).

According to CSS figures, 288 thousand people with diabetes attend in hospitals currently.

why amputate?

According to the person in charge of the Diabetic Foot Clinic, Danilo Espino, the amputations are carried out when the circulation of the blood is affected by the diabetes.

‘When this occurs, blood does not arrive with oxygen to the tissues, they die so it is necessary to amputate, 'he said.

He explained that kangered blood generates bacteria that can put the patient's life at risk;It amputates to limit that infection.

From 2009 to 2014 in this clinic, located in the district of San Miguelito, they referred to more than 54 patients to amputate a limb.

You have to take care of yourself

According to Espino, a diabetic patient who does not take care of himself and does not follow a balanced diet has a high level of suffering an amputation, a cardiac arrest or that his kidneys fail.

This chronic disease compromises nervous, circulatory systems, heart, kidneys and sight, he said.

‘Amputations are increasingly frequent because the disease is being badly diagnosed, 'he said.

Patients come to the doctor when they have five years of suffering from diabetes and present symptoms like a lot of thirst, desire to urinate constant and hunger.

Others arrive when they have a calluses or ulcers that can end in amputation, he said.

Both Espino and Ycly Jaén, of the National Sub -Directorate of Primary Health Care of the CSS, ask people who suffer from overweight or who have relatives with diabetes to perform the exam once a year.

Jaén recommended the population to exercise, avoid eating alcohol, smoking and not consuming food and drinks with high sugar levels.

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Statistics

2,500 is the minimum of patients who are detected with diabetes in CSS