Type 2 diabetes can cause various complications in the sufferer, both acute and chronic. Complications of diabetes include, peripheral vascular disease and diabetic neuropathy, can cause injury to the diabetic foot. The state of the chronic diabetic foot that is not handled properly can develop into an amputation.

When a person has diabetes mellitus, then the thing that can be done is to prevent complications of peripheral vascular disease and diabetic neuropathy by improving blood circulation in the legs. In diabetic patients, decreased peripheral blood circulation is caused by insulin insufficiency, resulting in disturbances in the form of accumulation of blood chemicals.

Ultimately, disruption of the peripheral blood circulation will lead to complications of the disease that cause the furthest region of the numbness of the heart or no feelings of tension or pressure. If it is not prevented, it will occur gangrenous injuries that can lead to amputation. Factors that can affect peripheral blood circulation include drugs, smoking cessation, exercise, and foot care.

Several types of therapy that is currently developing one of them is diabetic foot spa. Diabetic foot spa is a therapy for patients with diabetes mellitus thoroughly ranging from foot exercises, cleansing (skin cleansing), foot mask and foot massage.

Diabetic foot spa consists of a variety of activities that is diabetic foot gymnastics before the foot spa implementation, skin cleansing is cleaning with mild and mild baby soap, pedicure is cutting and nail brushing if the respondent has a long nail, foot mask is the act of giving scrubs for the purpose of cleansing dead skin cells, but for this action is not done every day to the skin layer is not thinning, and the last is foot massage that is superficial massage on the foot to improve blood circulation. Spa diabetic foot is done ± 30 minutes. Activities within the diabetic foot spa impact on peripheral blood circulation as a whole. These activities in addition to blood flow can also make patients feel comfortable and relaxed

How to be able to do a diabetes spa at home? Tools and materials :

Wash both legs, wipe with baby soap while pressed with and cleaned up between your fingers. Rinse with warm water repeat 1x again then dry.

Nail long nails carefully and carefully.

Apply olive oil or coconut oil massage gently, give comfort to diabetics, do for 15-20 minutes.

After the massage soak feet with warm water for 10 minutes.

Clean up the remaining oil with soap and then dry so it does not make it slippery when walking

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