Non-freezing cold injury

[Deleted member 1258]

Chilblains?

I haven't had chilblains for years! I had one on one of my little toes that would reliably tell me the rain was coming an hour before it arrived. They seemed to be a product of my childhood where we only had a coal fire and no central heating and my days in bedsits where a single bar electric fire was the only form of heating.

 

[raleighnut]

I must admit I often wonder if there is a long term consequence of having Raynaud's Syndrome where it cuts of the circulation repeatedly, particularly if there is any nerve damage.

An ex girlfriend of mine now has Reynauds, it was diagnosed when all her fingernails came off.
(she's OK now BTW)

 

[summerdays]

An ex girlfriend of mine now has Reynauds, it was diagnosed when all her fingernails came off.
(she's OK now BTW)

Eek! No my fingers and toes go white, but actually I'm having a better winter than normal this year.

 

[raleighnut]

Eek! No my fingers and toes go white, but actually I'm having a better winter than normal this year.

Glynis was always 'economical' with heating or should that be spending money on heating when we were together (tighter than a ducks ****) so was used to cold hands, the nails thing came as a bit of a shock.

 

[smutchin]

[QUOTE 4636071, member: 9609"]sorry if that come over the wrong way - the truth is I'm not sure, so when I was saying frostbite is a different thing I am probably meaning "is frost bite a different thing" (i do tend to word things badly) Frostbite seems to be cells permanently distroyed through freezing, the non-freezing injuries seems to be long term nerve damage to cold / lack of blood supply.[/QUOTE]

No worries - I'm far from being an expert on this subject so it's probably best if I butt out. Interested to read the thoughts of people who actually know what they're talking about though.

Of course, that chart posted by @KEEF (which I've seen knocking around the internet many times before) is in Fahrenheit, which confuses matters for someone like me brought up on metric - I always forget that 0ºF is waaaaay below 0ºC...

 

[ColinJ]

Reading through some of the Google results, it appears that the 'trench foot' suffered by many soldiers during WWI was largely due to the cold. I had thought it was due to infections affecting wet feet.

It was also interesting to know that racial origin can play a big part in susceptibility to cold injury. Obviously people from hot countries are not going to be used to cold conditions, but apparently they are actually much more likely than northern europeans to suffer injuries due to cold conditions.