Report by Tribunnews.com reporter Aisyah Nursyamsi
TRIBUNNEWS.COM, JAKARTA – Term diabetes wet with diabetes Dry is often heard in our society.
Some even say diabetes wet is more dangerous than diabetes dry
So what’s the crazy difference diabetes dry versus wet?
In relation to this, the internal medicine specialist at Binawaluya Heart Hospital, Dr Ni Nengah Arianti, sp. Even the PD has given an answer.
“So this is also often asked about dry and wet diabetes. But actually these terms don’t exist in the medical world,” he said during the Health Talk Healthy Holidays for Diabetics at Aston Hotel Jakarta (23/12/2022) .
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In the medical world, there are only four types diabetes.
This is diabetes type 1, diabetes type 2, diabetes type 3 e diabetes gestational (due to pregnancy).
Dry diabetes, ie sick diabetes which is difficult to fully recover. However, wounds that do not deteriorate indicate sick people diabetes able to properly control blood sugar in the body.
Instead, diabetes wet which is often perceived by the public is diabetes with uncontrolled sugar and there are wound complications.
“So wet diabetes is usually synonymous with diabetic patients with wound complications. If it’s dry, it doesn’t necessarily have complications,” he explained.
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Because indeed when sugar is not controlled and injured, it will be difficult to heal.
“Because there can be injuries to patients diabetes? In patients whose blood sugar is over 200, their sugar is not only in the blood but also impairs blood sugar needs,” said Dr. Aryanti.
The most commonly affected nerves are in the feet.
Your feet will initially experience numbness and tingling.
“The foot is most often stepped down, the result is numbness. We don’t know if we step on something, we don’t feel it. It feels like after an injury or smells like an ulcer,” Dr. Aryanti added.
Uncontrolled sugar can exacerbate wounds and can even penetrate the skin.
As a result, it can lead to amputation surgery. Because the wound got worse infection and the skin tissue died.
“Obviously if asked to choose better diabetes simple. Even dry diabetes can become wet if blood sugar is not controlled, injuries occur, it is difficult to heal,” she concluded.
