Summer legs and feet cold both physiological factors and disease factors. Physiological factors are often seen in the air-conditioned room, resulting in the loss of body heat will cause transient cold legs and feet; disease factors are mostly seen in diabetic peripheral neuropathy, lower extremity arterial occlusion patients.
1. Physiological reasons: If you often stay in the air-conditioned room in the summer, the cold wind will stimulate the skin of the lower limbs, resulting in arterial blood flow slows down, there may be a feeling of cold legs, there may be transient cold legs. If it is due to physiological reasons, you need to add more water, appropriate exercise to promote blood circulation, pay attention to warmth, avoid the use of cold water.
2. Pathological causes
(1) Diabetic peripheral neuropathy. This is a common complication of diabetes mellitus, which often manifests as sensory impairment, motor impairment and autonomic dysfunction. As the sensory impairment often appears to be more sensitive to cold stimulation of temperature, some patients will show clinical symptoms of cold legs and feet.
(2) Lower limb arterial occlusion: this will cause the lack of sufficient blood supply to the distal limbs, resulting in ischemia and hypoxia, and the limbs may show a decrease in skin temperature of the lower legs and feet, tissue necrosis, or even gangrene-like changes.
If the phenomenon of cold legs and feet in summer persists, it is recommended to consult a doctor in time, improve the relevant examination under the guidance of the doctor to clarify the cause of the disease, and if the disease is considered to be a factor, it is necessary to comply with the doctor’s instructions to standardize the treatment.