Footcare for a Person with Diabetes

Foot care matters for the person in your care, especially if he or she has diabetes. If the person you’re caring for has diabetes, they may lose feeling in their feet. This can cause injuries like wounds and blisters that they won’t even know are there. Diabetes can make these open areas much harder to heal and they can become infected very easily. Proper diabetic foot care can help prevent this. In this video, we’ll show you how to care for the feet of someone with diabetes so that you can help them stay infection-free.