• Inspect your feet daily for blisters, bleeding and lesions between the toes. Use a mirror to examine the bottom of your feet as well.
• Wear therapeutic, diabetic footwear, including specially made diabetes socks, diabetic slippers, insoles, orthotics and other diabetic footwear.
• Wear high and wide toe box shoes.
• Wear diabetic footwear that fits well and protects your feet.
• Wear conforming removable insoles in your diabetic footwear.
• Wear seamless diabetes socks and stockings along with your diabetic footwear to keep moisture away from your feet.
• Use diabetic foot cream – just not between the toes.
• Use bed cradles to reduce the weight of heavy bedding on your diabetic foot.
• Diabetic skin care is important! Wash your feet daily with warm, soapy water and dry them thoroughly, especially between the toes.
• Trim your toenails carefully, straight across, and do not gouge into the corners.

• Don’t excessively soak your diabetes foot… especially in hot water.
• Don’t use hot water bottles or heating pads on your feet.
• Don’t use acids or chemical corn removers on diabetic feet.
• Don’t perform “bathroom surgery” on corns, calluses or ingrown toenails.
• Don’t smoke.

See your podiatrist on a regular basis, and contact one immediately if your feet become swollen, painful, red or infected.

Information on foot, leg and lower body health conditions provided by The Podiatry Institute, dedicated to advancing the standard of care in podiatric medicine and its effects on muscoskeletal health.