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Dry skin is one of the most frequent skin manifestations of diabetes mellitus, a condition that makes the daily life of patients difficult and can be treated with the right products
It is a century and a year since the first administration of insulin, 100 years since scientists Frederick Banting and John MacLeod were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for the life-saving treatment against diabetes. This year’s World Diabetes Day comes to inform and raise awareness about the metabolic disease that affects more than 420 million patients worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, as well as one in ten people in Greece.
As every year, World Diabetes Day is used to highlight the role of lifestyle in the prevention and management of the disease, patients’ rights, unequal access to healthcare or diabetic complications such as nephropathy and neuropathy.
Many photos will be released featuring a finger ready to be “pricked” to measure sugar. Only this year, we’re looking beyond the finger, to the hands, feet, limbs or trunk, any area of the skin that may have manifested skin symptoms that require care.
The necessary care for skin symptoms
Constant need to urinate, persistent thirst, dry mouth and blurred vision, are some of the first symptoms that will cross our mind when talking about diabetes mellitus. Yet, for eight out of ten patients, or 80%, there will be obvious skin symptoms such as dryness, a condition that must be treated immediately to relieve discomfort such as itchingbut also avoiding the risk of skin ulcers.
Diabetes mellitus is a metabolic disease that affects the nerves, blood vessels and connective tissue, thus affecting the skin. Thus, in addition to dryness, a sign that glucose levels are elevated, there are other skin complications such as acanthosis melanosis, lipoid necrobiosis, vesicular dermatosis, xanthomas and xanthelasma, but significantly rare. The question therefore is the daily life and how can dry skin, a condition common to almost all patients, be treated?
The solution to the problem of dry skin in diabetes comes from CeraVe. THE CeraVecreator of a range of skincare products, enriched with a combination of three essentials ceramides (ceramides 1, 3, and 6-II), fatty acids, and other lipids, which contribute to the repair and strengthening of the skin’s natural protective barrier, stands by the side of diabetes patients and their battle with the skin symptoms of the disease, such as dryness.
As a new clinical cohort study showed in 528 people with dry skin due to diabetes from 19 countries -including Greece-, the use of the daily protocol CeraVewith CeraVe Hydrating Cleanser & CeraVe Moisturising Creamsucceeded improvement of dry skin symptoms for 98% of diabetic patients.
THE CeraVeon the occasion of this year’s World Diabetes Day, stands by the side of patients and promotes a new campaign under the auspices of the skin specialist, the Hellenic Dermatology and Venereology Society (EDAE) entitled “Taking care of the skin of patients with Diabetes Mellitus”, with in order to inform about the skin complications that diabetes can bring to the skin of patients
