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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
After years of worsening pain in his left leg, 63-year-old Steuart Robson was facing the last resort: amputation.
He was on the verge of becoming one of the thousands of people who have a limb amputated every year due to ‘diabetic foot’.
The condition, which results in 100 foot amputations every week in the UK, occurs when blood vessels in the lower limbs are so badly clogged up and damaged that the feet are starved of blood.
This can lead to infection and even gangrene, where loss of blood supply causes tissue to die.
Steuart first experienced pain in his left leg in 1994, after being diagnosed aged 23 with type 1 diabetes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2897643/Diabetics-amputation-aren-t-like-Britain.html
He was on the verge of becoming one of the thousands of people who have a limb amputated every year due to ‘diabetic foot’.
The condition, which results in 100 foot amputations every week in the UK, occurs when blood vessels in the lower limbs are so badly clogged up and damaged that the feet are starved of blood.
This can lead to infection and even gangrene, where loss of blood supply causes tissue to die.
Steuart first experienced pain in his left leg in 1994, after being diagnosed aged 23 with type 1 diabetes.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2897643/Diabetics-amputation-aren-t-like-Britain.html