Frostbite is a common winter disease, which is a limited inflammatory damage caused by cold. According to statistics, 200 million people suffer from frostbite each year in China, mainly children, women and the elderly. Once frostbite occurs, it is difficult to heal quickly during the cold season and will only gradually heal when the weather turns warmer.
Do you know why frostbite likes to occur on the hands, feet, ears, nose and face? Because, in autumn and winter, when the temperature suddenly drops, the hands, feet and ears are the terminal part of the body’s blood circulation, and the blood flow in the terminal vessels then becomes slow. When the temperature falls below 10 degrees Celsius, the small subcutaneous arteries in these areas contract in the cold, and venous return is poor, resulting in frostbite. Some patients also suffer from frostbite due to congenital mutations and narrowing of the blood vessels, resulting in poor blood flow. Frostbite often occurs unknowingly and is characterized by localized redness, purple, swelling, itching and pain, sometimes blisters, erosion, rupture, and nodules. If frostbite occurs, it can be very uncomfortable. In fact, frostbite can be prevented before it occurs, and the key to reducing the occurrence of frostbite is to start preventing it before winter. So how can we prevent frostbite so that we don’t have to suffer from it?
Here are some ways to prevent and treat frostbite in our daily lives.
First, focus on prevention
1.Preventing cold and keeping warm
First of all, we should pay attention to cold and warmth, wear gloves, windproof ear muffs and scarves when we go out, and our shoes should also be able to keep warm. Insist on washing your hands and face with cold water or even washing your feet or taking a bath from the summer and autumn seasons, and you can also take a proper winter swim to improve your cold resistance. The key to preventing frostbite is to exercise for cold tolerance. In late fall and early winter, you should start to keep warm and prevent cold. Whenever the cold season comes and frostbite flares up, you remember that the best time to treat it has already been missed.
2.Adhere to physical exercise
The best way to prevent frostbite is to strengthen physical exercise that suits your condition, such as practicing qigong, dancing, jumping rope, etc., or using the daily interval between hand washing, face and feet to gently rub the skin until it is slightly hot, in order to promote blood circulation, eliminate microcirculatory disorders, achieve the purpose of “circulation of blood” and improve the resistance to cold and the body’s resistance. This is the best way to prevent frostbite, and often rubbing your hands can also prevent frostbite. With hand massage, two hands together, repeatedly rubbing, make it hot, and then hold the other hand back with one hand to rub, cross each other, repeatedly rub 15-20 times.
3, temperature difference water bubble method
Take a basin of 15 degrees Celsius water and a basin of 45 degrees Celsius water, first soak your hands and feet in low temperature water for 5 minutes, and then soak in high temperature water once a day, which can exercise the function of vascular contraction and dilation and reduce the occurrence of frostbite.
4.Food prevention
You can increase the intake of vitamin A, C and minerals in January before winter; in addition, you can also take warm supplements from food. Eat warm foods such as beef and lamb to enhance the body’s ability to withstand cold. You can also eat hot cold food, such as pepper, ginger, etc., will also play a certain effect on the cold.
Second, the treatment of frostbite tips
1, ginger slices, put in a pot with a small fire roast, back and forth rub, rub on the affected area, the effect is good.
2, white radish cut and boiled in water, water used to soak, radish used to rub the affected area; or winter melon skin boiled in water, soak the affected area.
3, white radish put in a charcoal fire simmering hot simmering, or on the fire hot, and then back and forth to rub the affected area, the effect is obvious.
4. soaking hands in very hot water for ten minutes twice a day.
5, orthopedic water and its new use, frostbite has a special effect, rub 3-4 times a day, rubbed three times to be able to eliminate the emergence of herpes, more than half a month cured frostbite. Frostbite patients may want to give it a try.
6, the frostbite just started, every night with a hair dryer while rubbing, a few days later there is no more.
7, frostbite at the beginning, with hot vinegar, vinegar dry, and then apply, several times a day, can be effective.
8.Soak the affected area with hot salt water for 15 minutes for 1 week.
9, “ten drops of water” external rubbing frostbite local, 6 to 10 times a day, for frostbite is not ulcerated better; if the local skin ulcerated erosion, can first use erythromycin ointment rub, to be dissipated after the inflammation and then use ten drops of water.
There are many ways to treat frostbite, but they often take a long time and are slow to take effect, while treatment with Yunnan Baiyao is effective. The method is: if the frostbite is not broken, use white wine to mix Yunnan Baiyao powder into a paste and apply it externally, paying attention to heat preservation. If the frostbite has already broken down, wash the affected area and then sprinkle Yunnan Baiyao directly on the wound surface and wrap it with sterilized gauze, which will heal within a few days.