Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Your Skin and Diabetes

....Diabetes can affect every part of the body, including the skin. As many as one third of people with diabetes will have a skin disorder caused or affected by diabetes at some time in their lives....

...Several kinds of bacterial infections occur in people with diabetes. One common one are styes.

These are infections of the glands of the eyelid. Another kind of infection are boils, or infections of the hair follicles.

Carbuncles are deep infections of the skin and the tissue underneath...

...But even today, people with diabetes have more bacterial infections than other people do. Doctors believe people with diabetes can reduce...

Your Skin and Diabetes