"As for your diet, aside from strictly controlling your sugar intake, you should eat nutritious, high-protein foods like carp soup and pork rib soup whenever you need to. Keep your nutrition balanced. Don't just eat greens every day and avoid meat out of fear of high blood sugar. If you do that, where will your body get the vitality to heal the wound?" Li Xu continued.
The patient had been suffering from diabetes for over a decade and already had many dietary restrictions. Normally, he was too afraid to eat or touch almost anything, starving himself until he was sallow and emaciated. Li Xu was reminding him not to do more harm than good out of excessive caution.
"Doctor Li, then... do I still need to keep using that new medication Director Ren prescribed me, along with the anti-inflammatory IV drips? Do I still need to change my dressings?" the patient asked Li Xu cautiously.
