Foot problems include verrucas, athlete’s foot, bunions, heel pain, blisters and smelly feet - most of which can be treated with advice from your pharmacist. While the symptoms of these conditions are usually obvious, in some, more severe cases, the feet can present signs of more serious health conditions. Dr Christian Jessen, best known for presenting Channel 4 programme Embarrassing Bodies, told Express.co.uk during a Scholl pop-up in London that with conditions like diabetes, it’s very important patients get their feet checked.
Having diabetes damages your circulation, it damages your nerves, so your feeling in your feet goes
Dr Christian Jessen
“With diabetes, I hope you’re regularly seeing a podiatrist or going to a foot clinic. It’s really, really important,” he said.
“I think it’s unlikely you’re going to diagnose your diabetes through a foot condition - you’ve got to have quite advanced diabetes for that to happen, and I think you’d be feeling pretty ill - but having unregulated blood sugar damages your circulation, it damages your nerves, so your feeling goes, your sensation goes.
“And when you can’t feel you don’t realise you’re injuring your feet, they can get worse, and you’re more likely to get infections.
“It’s important to be really foot aware.”
Podiatrist Dr Michael Harrison-Blount also outlined some other health conditions where symptoms can present themselves in the feet.
Cardiovascular disease“We don’t use feet as a diagnostic tool to identify
