The treatment of diabetic foot ulcers can never begin fast enough. Because diabetics tend to experience poor circulation, even the smallest cuts and scrapes experience a much slower healing process than those that occur in persons who do not have the disease. As a result, diabetics are more susceptible to infections that can pose a big threat to the wellbeing of a diabetic. The treatment of diabetic foot ulcers is so imperative because upon the onset of an infection, many things can go wrong. In the most extreme cases, a limb may have to be amputated or the results can even be fatal. In fact, the American Diabetes Association reports that more than 60 percent of non-traumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes.

Special care must also be given to cuts, scrapes and scratches that appear on the hands as well. In fact, lesions on the hands are just …