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06/12/2024

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👩🏻‍⚕️Our team wants to wish you and your family a happy and blessed holiday season. 🎄❄️🤶🏼We look forward to seeing you i...
12/23/2023

👩🏻‍⚕️Our team wants to wish you and your family a happy and blessed holiday season. 🎄❄️🤶🏼

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⚠️‼️Currently, one in three Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes🩸Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to long-term complicat...
11/09/2023

⚠️‼️Currently, one in three Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes

🩸Uncontrolled diabetes can lead to long-term complications.

🦶Diabetic foot ulcer is among the most common complication of diabetes.

❤️‍🩹It is usually the result of poor glycemic control, underlying neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, or poor foot care.

✳️Stay on top of your diabetes care to avoid any diabetes complications.

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❤️‍🩹Currently, one in three Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes🩸Untreated diabetes can lead to long-term complication...
11/09/2023

❤️‍🩹Currently, one in three Canadians have diabetes or prediabetes

🩸Untreated diabetes can lead to long-term complications.

🦶Diabetic foot ulcers are among the most common complication.

✳️It is usually the result of poor glycemic control, underlying neuropathy, peripheral vascular disease, or poor foot care.

💙Stay on top of your diabetes care to avoid any diabetes complications.

🩵👩🏻‍⚕️Our team is here to support you.

📆For wounds to heal, it is important to ensure consistency of follow up appointments. ❤️‍🩹The wound healing process is v...
10/25/2023

📆For wounds to heal, it is important to ensure consistency of follow up appointments.

❤️‍🩹The wound healing process is very dynamic and changes time to time requiring reassessment and changes in care plan as well.

🧏‍♀️During follow ups your wound care specialist will reassess the wound by taking measurements and photographs to ensure wound healing is progressing well and the need to make changes or adjustments to the care plan according to wound presentation.

😓Missing appointments has been linked with delay in wound healing, wound deterioration and hospitalization.

✅Staying on top of your own care is essential to achieve wound healing.

10/21/2023

👣 Debridement of necrotic, callus, and fibrous (keratosis) tissues is considered the first and the most important therapeutic step leading to wound closure in people with DFU.

☑️ Unhealthy tissue must be sharply debrided back to bleeding tissue.

🔎 It helps to fully visualize the extent of the ulcer.

📖 It has been reported that regular sharp debridement is associated with more rapid healing of ulcers.

🕖 Act quickly! If you have diabetes and develops a foot ulceration talk to your healthcare provider about getting a wound care specialist involved in your treatment from the begging.

❤️‍🩹 It saves limbs and lives

🔍Research has shown that arginine, vitamin C, and zinc may be among the most important nutrients to promote wound healin...
10/16/2023

🔍Research has shown that arginine, vitamin C, and zinc may be among the most important nutrients to promote wound healing

⭐️Arginine is a conditionally essential amino acid that has been shown to decrease infections of hard to heal wounds.

❤️‍🩹If you have a wound that has not healed in less than 4 weeks talk to your healthcare provider about nutritional supplements.

🦶Did you know? Foot skin infections are among the most frequently (20.6%) reported disorders in people with diabetes. In...
10/03/2023

🦶Did you know? Foot skin infections are among the most frequently (20.6%) reported disorders in people with diabetes.
In general, skin infection and dry skin (xerosis) have been shown to be highly prevalent with appropriate moisturizer cream.
🧴Among foot skin and nail infections in people with diabetes, fungus is more common than bacterial or viral infections.
🖐🏻 Repetitive trauma from ill-shoes is the most common cause of foot ulceration in people with diabetes.
🦶 Excessive immersion of the foot in soap and water, together with the presence of damage to the cuticle of periungual fold, may result in distortion of the underlying tissues of the nail, causing spaces that can be easily infected.

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👟Fitting footwear is the primary cause of foot ulceration in people with diabetes, with 20% of presenting ulcers being d...
09/15/2023

👟Fitting footwear is the primary cause of foot ulceration in people with diabetes, with 20% of presenting ulcers being due to shoes rubbing.

❤️‍🩹It has been shown that diabetic foot ulcerations are largely preventable when using custom off-loading footwear with ulcer recurrence rates found to decrease by 53% over a year follow up. Re-ulceration rates were found to be 26% among therapeutic footwear group and 83% among those who wore their own footwear in ischemic and neuropathic ulcers, from a cohort of 386 ulcerations presented in clinic. Off-loading pressure is therefore indispensable for stopping the potential progression of pre-ulcerative conditions toward lesions

👩🏼‍⚕️🌟Norma is a Registered Nurse who has over 2 decades of experience in wound care, from surgical units in hospitals t...
09/06/2023

👩🏼‍⚕️🌟Norma is a Registered Nurse who has over 2 decades of experience in wound care, from surgical units in hospitals to home care and Long-Term Care.

🎓She took the International Interprofessional Wound Care Course while working at the North West Home and Community Care, which led her to a wound care caseload as well as being the medical supply coordinator for over 10 years.

🖌️She keeps herself up to date by attending Wounds Canada conferences yearly and reading Best Practice Guidelines and Recommendations for wound care in Canada.

👩‍👧‍👦When she is not at work, she enjoys engaging in outdoor activities, visiting her grandchildren and planning their next trips.

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