Diabetic Wound Care

Diabetic Wound Care

If you have diabetes, your feet are constantly at risk due to the way your body stores and uses glucose. Unfortunately, this increases the amounts of sores and wounds you may get on your feet.  It also decreases your ability to heal from these wounds. Diabetic wound care is essential because the disease can cause nerve damage, narrow arteries, infection, and a weakening of your immune system. It is also essential to help reduce your risk of a limb amputation.

Dr. Jeffrey Klein provides treatment for wound care in the following ways:

• Examines your feet to assess the problem.


• Provides antibiotics for any infections in the wounds.


• Cleans and dresses open wounds and sores.


• Provides surgical debridement of wounds, which removes infected tissue.

Here at S.E.T. FootCare, saving your foot is our top priority. We will do everything we can to save your limb, including cleaning the wound and taking care of the infection. Proper care helps you prevent the infection from spreading.  With a lower immune system and poor blood flow as a result of diabetes, it is vital you see us as soon as possible for proper diabetic wound care.