How To Treat And Manage Diabetic Neuropathy

Quit Smoking

An individual may need to stop smoking if they have diabetic neuropathy and would smoke cigarettes every day. The use of cigarettes and any other tobacco product causes a significant increase in the risk of diabetes patients experiencing a stroke or heart attack. The chemicals in cigarettes and other tobacco products can encourage high blood pressure, which contributes to the cardiovascular complications that can develop from diabetes. High blood pressure causes damaged to the patient's blood vessels and makes them less able to expand to adapt to higher blood volumes. This malfunction results in reduced blood circulation around the body and can produce the pooling of blood in the patient's feet. Smoking cigarettes and using other tobacco products causes a reduction in lung function, which lowers the average oxygen concentration in the blood. Poor circulation and low oxygen concentration in the blood can promote life-threatening medical events like a heart attack and stroke.

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