As the primary caregiver for a loved one’s wounds, one of your most important jobs is to prevent infection.
Not only because infection can lengthen the wound healing process, but also because certain infections can be life-threatening.
Our RFH Wound Care teams provide some tips and information to help loved ones caring for a wound at home.
Did you know that our bodies turn food into glucose which gives us energy?
To use glucose as energy, our body needs insulin, a hormone that helps glucose get into our cells. If you have diabetes, your body may not make enough insulin, may not use insulin in the right way, or both. That can cause too much glucose to stay in the blood, which can cause health problems over time.
More than 34 Million Americans are living with diabetes. What’s also staggering is that 1 in 5 Americans who are living with diabetes – don’t even know they have it.
In Georgia alone, there are well over a million people who have diabetes.