Aerobic gram-positive cocci, Staphylococcus aureus is the bacteria causing Diabetic Foot. The simplified treatment acquired through years in Diabetic foot condition is dissection of infected part or complete foot, which indeed with a review in the treatment and advancements can be altered leaving the patient an option other than dissection.
Non-dissection possibilities:
- Debridement
is a new surgical procedure acquired which involves removal of infected
and damaged tissue layers over the wound and further treating the wound
with antibiotics and anti-inflammatory drugs with regular cleaning of the
wound and moist dressing of the wound.
- Discovering the type of Antimicrobial drug resistance and type
of bacterial strain leading to the infectious conditions and treating in
accordance may give enhancements in the results.
- Using various techniques like Imaging of infection and other
relative diagnosis gives specificity with higher accuracy in treatment
results of the infection.
- Drugs: Linezolid, Amikacin, Amoxicillin& Clavulanic
acid, Cefixime etc.
- Following the drug-induced treatment advice of healthy a lifestyle
which enhances the drug activity for better output i.e. Low nicotine
intake, Optimizing blood glucose level to normal conditions, Using
diabetic footwear and other practices leading to a decrease in glucose
level and hygienic lifestyle.
- The major part is the after-treatment management involving
prevention and compensation practices including regular Blood glucose
check-up, regular foot condition and infection growth analysis by
Ultrasound and X-ray will leave no chance to the growth or re-attack of
infection.
|| For better knowledge and in-depth details give a
glance over Infectious
Diseases Conf 2020 on March 19, 20
at Dubai, UAE