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Diabetic With A Painful Boil On The Calf Muscle. Pus Formation. How Long Will It Take To Heal?
My mother is diabetic, recently she developed a small boil near the calf muscles which caused severe pain. Doctor recommended to get admitted as pus has formed. Now its almost 5days and the pus is reduced considerably there is some of kind of water coming from the Wound, doctor said its the signs of wound getting healed. My query is how much time it will take to cusre completely.
Sat, 4 May 2013
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Keep one thing in mind that diabetes control is must at any cost in diabetic patient.
Now boils or cellulitis or pyoderma all these are diabetic sequelae hence a diabetic patient are prone to suffers these problems.
Diabetic patient require some more time than an average patient to heal wounds , so nothing to worry about these.
If diabetes is in control healing of wound will take 5-6 days more than simple patient.
Good luck Dr. HET
Keep one thing in mind that diabetes control is must at any cost in diabetic patient.
Now boils or cellulitis or pyoderma all these are diabetic sequelae hence a diabetic patient are prone to suffers these problems.
Diabetic patient require some more time than an average patient to heal wounds , so nothing to worry about these.
If diabetes is in control healing of wound will take 5-6 days more than simple patient.
Good luck Dr. HET
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Normally such type of infections take 5 to 7 days to become all right but in case of diabetics,it may take 7 to 10 days for complete healing.
Keep the blood sugar levels in normal range because uncontrolled blood sugar levels won't let the wound heal in time.
Make it sure that in future her blood sugar levels are kept in normal range as uncontrolled diabetes results in various future micro as well as Macrovascular complications
Also make sure to keep her lipid profile and blood pressure in normal range.
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Normally such type of infections take 5 to 7 days to become all right but in case of diabetics,it may take 7 to 10 days for complete healing.
Keep the blood sugar levels in normal range because uncontrolled blood sugar levels won't let the wound heal in time.
Make it sure that in future her blood sugar levels are kept in normal range as uncontrolled diabetes results in various future micro as well as Macrovascular complications
Also make sure to keep her lipid profile and blood pressure in normal range.
Thanks
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