Conditions

Both feet swelling usually points somewhere systemic. One foot, warm and red on a neuropathic foot, is Charcot until proven otherwise. Where the line sits.

Diabetic dermopathy is harmless and needs no treatment, but it travels with the other complications. How to tell shin spots from venous staining and from the rest.

Dry skin in diabetes is a neuropathy sign, not neglect. Why heels crack, what urea actually does, and why a pumice stone is the wrong tool on a numb foot.

Fungal infection, dry skin from lost sweating, diabetic dermopathy or poor circulation. Which pattern is which, and the one that needs seeing the same day.

Blisters that appear on a diabetic foot overnight have a name, bullosis diabeticorum. Why you should never pop one, and how to tell it from the other causes.

Charcot foot is misdiagnosed in about 63% of cases and mistaken for gout or cellulitis. A foot and ankle surgeon on the signs, the stages and the treatment.

What diabetes does to the nerves, arteries, skin and bone of the foot, what each warning sign means, and how urgent it is. Written by a foot and ankle surgeon.