I don’t like this for a few reasons:

1- the idea of something being stuck to a patients foot for a long time is wrong
2- covering up an area so you can’t see whats going on is wrong
3- occluding the skin is wrong
4- plaster sensitivity
5- if they ruffle up you have now got an area of pressure

In neuropathy the foot can excess sweat or become dry- not just become dry.

I think they are a waste of time. Just getting someone to look at your foot is much better. If you can’t do it, then you shouldn’t have these on your feet- because it defeats the object of them in the first place.

Just be careful of these.

Because of this the UK NHS ran Diabetes educational programs.

More Diabetics were found, which was great, and hospital admissions reduced.

Feet are a terrible issue with Diabetics because of neuropathy- patients believe they can feel sensations, but they can’t- so they don’t check.

Also complications get worse as you go down the body. E.g, twice as likely to get stroke, 5 times as likely to get heart issues and 8 times as likely to get foot ulcerations.

With regard to ulcerations and treatment methods- not all medications and dressings will fit all types of wounds- especially the foot where dressings can squish.

We saw a patient with 4 types of dressing on their ulcer- all acting against each other. It is no wonder that it hadn’t healed for 6 months.

The majority of foot ulcers will heal as long as the patient is able to and you remove the problem which caused the ulceration in the first place (shoe wear being the main problem). Dressing just keep the wound in an optimum environment, nothing more.

Growth dressings in the past have only really been able to work on healing sites redundant of infection and debris. You tend to find that these types of dressings just push the wound to healing. So it will heal without the dressing anyway.

Greetings from Peru