Even though diabetic skin disease affects about 33% of all diabetics and can be very troublesome or serious, there is some good news. Almost ant diabetic skin disease can be either prevented or treated easily if caught soon enough. It’s important that you know what some of the diabetic skin disease types are so you can recognize their emergence and take precautions to prevent unnecessary complications. Even more important, the presence of a diabetic skin disease is sometimes the first indication a person gets that they have diabetes. So it can be an early warning system of sorts. Some of the infections are general types that almost anyone can get – like bacterial or fungal infections and generalized itching.

Others are more likely to occur in diabetes patients, and a few are exclusive to diabetes patients. Some of these diabetic skin diseases are diabetic dermopathy, necrobiosis lipoidica diabeticorum, diabetic blisters, …