Ajax Bay
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- East Devon
I'm pulling this across from a 'sticky gears' thread - what's the best way to get warmth and feeling back into digits (ETA: fingers and toes) once indoors at the end of a ride?
Rapid warming of pseudo-NFCI (eg by jumping in a shower) ends up with more damage to the tissue.
Caveat: this is all as I understand it (from a frostbitten (ie blisters) and multi frost-nipped and NFCI experience PoV). Maybe a medic CycleChatter can confirm or give (much) better and authoritative advice.
The first search hit offers: "it's helpful to rewarm it gradually because sudden rewarming of cold skin may worsen chilblains."
I had that today but it was because my fingers were so cold I couldn’t operate the shifters or brakes and even now 6 hours later they have that hot feeling
I'm in a similar boat and the temperature has put me off going out (against my younger nature of 'when the going gets tough, the tough get going'). But my chilblains are complaining.I can't like that post . I haven't been out in a week due to the weather conditions as I [have] Reynauds so this weather is a no no on top of the obvious safety issues. I have spent times actually close to crying in pain in the shower as feeling returns to extremities.
Rapid warming of pseudo-NFCI (eg by jumping in a shower) ends up with more damage to the tissue.
Caveat: this is all as I understand it (from a frostbitten (ie blisters) and multi frost-nipped and NFCI experience PoV). Maybe a medic CycleChatter can confirm or give (much) better and authoritative advice.
The first search hit offers: "it's helpful to rewarm it gradually because sudden rewarming of cold skin may worsen chilblains."
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