Pay attention to cold and warmth, and don't let her catch a cold. Clothes should be loose and soft, socks should be wider, because diabetic elderly people have slow peripheral nerve sensation and poor blood circulation. Wearing too tight socks affects blood circulation and sometimes even breaks limbs. Brush your teeth with a soft brush, and the water for washing your feet should not be too hot. In short, don't damage the skin and mucosa of the elderly. As mentioned earlier, elderly people with diabetes are insensitive and easily injured in trivial matters, while people with high blood sugar are particularly slow in wound healing, and a little skin damage may cause serious infection. The author once had a patient who scraped a little skin on his calf, but his blood sugar was high. Finally, the wound has rotted to the bone and has not healed for a long time.
Take hypoglycemic drugs on time. If possible, buy a blood sugar detector, a few hundred dollars, and check it for the elderly from time to time. Pay attention to avoid hypoglycemia when taking hypoglycemic drugs, and put a piece of sugar in the pocket of the elderly at any time. When the old man goes out, put a note in her pocket, indicating that the old man has this disease. In case of an accident, the hospital can save him.