All About Positive Health

Just another Blog Engage Bloggers Club weblog

  • RSS ClinicianOnNet

    • Links for 2012-03-28 [Digg] March 29, 2012
      Bleeding During Catheterization of Male Urethra I was called at 10.30 PM to attend a case of bleeding from urethra following urethral catheterization in a semiconscious male, admitted to the medicine ward. I went and saw a healthy male in sixties bleeding from urethra. The foley's catheter, a narrow silicon tube used for draining the retained urine was […]
    • Links for 2012-03-23 [Digg] March 24, 2012
      A Common Blood Pressure Lowering Drug Verapamil may Slow Or Reverse Diabetes A common medication for high-blood-pressure and angina, verapamil, a calcium channel blocker has been seen to protect or reverse diabetes-related death of pancreatic beta cells, those responsible for secretion of insulin; according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham study publ […]
    • A Common Blood Pressure Lowering Drug Verapamil may Slow Or Reverse Diabetes March 24, 2012
      A common medication for high-blood-pressure and angina, verapamil, a calcium channel blocker has been seen to protect or reverse diabetes-related death of pancreatic beta cells, those responsible for... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] […]

  • Get it Delivered to YOU.

    Enter your email address:

    Delivered by FeedBurner

  • Recent Comments

  • Meta


  • 0
    		Unique
    Visitors
    Powered By Google Analytics

  • Pages

  • Recently Active Member Avatars

    Member avatar
    Member avatar
    Member avatar
    Member avatar
    Member avatar

Archive for the 'Skin & soft tissue infection in diebetic' Category

Diabetes Mellitus & Penile Infection.

Posted by Dr.Prahallad Panda on 4th September 2009

The blue circle symbol used to represent diabetes.
Image  Representing Diabetes

My senior colleague was treating a patient for penile infection since some days  but there is no regression of the ulcer .To-day he appeared before me to tell that he urinated somewhere and caught the infection and subsequently the ulceration of penis.This man was in his fifties.This is the usual statement of a patient .I do not understand the rationality.Anyway this patient does not know his diabetic status and my collegue neither bothered to go for that.Several patient with a undiagnosed diabetes mellitus present with with ulceration of penis.The infection of glans and prepuce combined called balanoprosthitis.Now I have ordered  for fasting and post-lunch blood sugar estimation.A culture and sensitivity test of pus as well as a routine and and microscopic test of urine also has been ordered.Even somebody not being a frank diabetic might be suffering from a pre-diabetic state called an impaired glucose tolerant.Here the blood sugar levels are more than prescribed limit but not sufficient to stamp as diabetic.The blood sugar level is something like below.There are several values prescribed by different diabetic associations.

Normal level                      Impaired Tolerance                     Diabetic

Fasting                                   60-110 mgs/dl                         110-126 mg/dl                                       >126mg/dl

Post lunch                                 <140mg/dl                           140-180mg/dl                                     >180mg/dl

Diabetic catch infection in skin and other parts easily.Here, as per researchers the resistance to infection decreases.The white blood cell responsible for the defense against invasion of microbes did not reach the site and there is a dysfunction .So even a trivial infection spreads quickly.

Reblog this post [with Zemanta]

Posted in Skin & soft tissue infection in diebetic | No Comments »