The hazards of old cold leg include intermittent claudication, pain, swelling, joint deformation, etc., and in serious cases, amputation or even life-threatening.
Old cold leg is a folk name, there is no old cold leg as a medical condition. Old cold leg is due to the legs are afraid of cold, afraid of cold, encounter cold weather or in a cold environment, resulting in leg pain, leg numbness, leg cramps symptoms. Generally there are lower limb vascular diseases including arteriosclerosis, arterial stenosis, arterial occlusion of lower limb blood vessels and osteoarthropathy of knee joints, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
Old cold leg patients with insufficient blood supply to the lower limb arteries, which will cause ischemic pain in the lower limb muscle groups over time, the pain is particularly pronounced during exercise can cause intermittent claudication.
Old cold leg will also cause leg swelling, and even joint deformation, deformity and affect the leg activities. If the long-term lack of effective treatment leads to localized ischemic necrosis, there may be a need for amputation.
Old cold leg may also cause damage to multiple organ systems, causing circulatory or respiratory diseases, and may also cause kidney damage, which may be life-threatening in severe cases.