Why do open wounds take longer to heal for a diabletic than a non-diabetic?

When anormal person gets a wound the body resopnds with ahost of natuarrly produced chemcilas. Fibrinogen for making a scab, phagocytes ofr infection control, RBC to bring oxygen and fibrinogen o\ iron and other needed itemns to the wound.
Because in a diabetic RBCs are compromised by being crowded out with glucose the cells are harmful. they cant carry what is needed, and in teh case of an out of control diabetic ketones( an acetone) are in the plasma, This is an acid just like true acetone that is poured on a nylon stocking.
What happens, it melts. So on a runaway or poorly controlled diabetic the extra glucose and ketones cause the wound to fester and degrade or erode.

An in contraol diabetci still ahs a lsow reposne and teh tighter teh control teh faster the heal. But because the red blood cells are always compormised the healing prcess becomes longer.

julie

Thanks for the info. My mother-in law has a wound on her leg that just won't heal. It is smaller than it was, but it's still taking a long time to go away.