Tingling of the hands after washing cold water may be a sign of Raynaud’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis and other diseases.
Patients with Raynaud’s syndrome are prone to numbness after washing their hands with cold water, and the skin color of their hands may also change in the form of pallor, purplish, or flushed. Cold, agitation or stress are the main triggers for this syndrome, which is accompanied by arterial spasms caused by known diseases. Such patients should keep their hands warm.
Rheumatoid arthritis and other rheumatoid immune diseases may be aggravated by numbness, pain, and stiffness of the hands after the hands are stimulated by cold water or cold weather. But these patients will have other manifestations in addition to numbness of the hands, such as rheumatoid arthritis patients often have stiffness in the joints when they wake up in the morning, there will also be more than one joints of obvious pain.
Hand numbness after washing cold water may also be caused by other factors, it is recommended that patients seek medical attention in a timely manner to clarify the cause of the active treatment under the guidance of the doctor.