DIABETICS/SKIN AND SOFT TISSUE INFECTION

Uncontrolled and poorly controlled diabetics are prone for skin and soft tissue infection due to poor defense status and a host of other factors .In this part of our country diabetics are hardly conscious about it.Repeated advice in this regards at least those in public sectors does not get full result and what to speak of illiterate/poor mass.They do not go for blood glucose test in regular intervals only to come with carbuncles,furuncles and fungal infestations leading to resource crunch and loss of man days .

DIABETES MELLITUS AND PREPUCIAL INFECTION

Prepuce the fore skin of penis sometimes gets infected called prosthitis.There occurs dischage of pus from below the prepuce ,soreness ,pain and local swelling.This is very common in un-diagnosed and under or poorly controlled diabetics.So in these cases  plasma blood glucose estimation,both fasting and postprandial are advised.If diabetes is found has to be controlled alongwith antibiotics for infection.