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1. Fever of unknown origin in  a diabetic patient, should be suspected to be having foot infection.
2. Redness and swelling of foot with or without pain .
3. Foul smelling discharge.
4. Swelling of foot with deformity of the foot.
5. Pain in calf muscles on walking and sometimes even rest pain at night.
6. Tingling, numbness, burning pain in the feet and legs.
7. Thickning of the skin of some part of planter skin.
8. White skin in between the toes is suggestive of fungal infecctions.
9. The footwears(slippers and chappals) coming out from the foot unknowingly.
10. No sensation of pin prick, thorn prick or hot and cold feeling.
11. Dry skin with cracks and fissures in planter surface of foot.
                 
                                    Diabetic patients have gradual devlopment of deformity of the toes. They burn thier feet on walking barefooted at temples and pilgrimage places in summer. In winter because of dry skin they develop fissures and cracks in feet. In monsoon the fungal infection between the toes is common. Thick skin in the foot is the begining of ulcer or wound formation.