When most people think about diabetes complications, things like blindness, organ failure, and other major medical problems come to mind. Diabetes skin infection isn’t generally one of the first things that come to mind.  But perhaps it should. Diabetes skin infection can result in anything from amputations that will seriously affect the quality of life to infections that result in death. Although you don’t have to be diabetic to get a skin infection, for patients with diabetes, skin infection is usually much more serious.

What are some Diabetic Skin Infection Types to be Concerned with?

• Bacterial infections. These can range in seriousness from something as seemingly harmless as a boil or a sty to something as serious as a staph infection. When any type of bacterial skin infection, diabetes tends to make it worse, and harder to heal. They don’t all end with serious consequences but they can.

Infection and diabetes can go hand in hand if the diabetes is not treated and controlled effectively. Diabetes mellitus can cause serious infections and even death if the infection is not dealt with quickly and properly.

Infection and diabetes is common because uncontrolled diabetes leads to high amounts of sugar in the blood and body tissues. The excess sugar does a wonderful job of feeding bacteria and allowing it to grow in the tissues and cells of the body. This leads to infection.

There are many places that people with diabetes can end up getting an infection. Some of the most common are diabetes bladder infection, diabetes fungal infection, diabetes wound infection, and diabetes skin infection.

Diabetes Urinary Tract Infection Signs and Symptoms

There are many signs and symptoms of infection and diabetes. These symptoms will probably be the same for most any diabetes related infection. If you …