A woman may have 100 reasons to like winter, but to say that hate winter, easy to cold hands and feet, this one will be enough! Because, in the cold winter, cold hands and feet is a very painful thing. Sometimes waking up cold in the middle of the night can affect the quality of sleep. Doctors remind: cold hands and feet may be because of the body suffering from diseases. 1, heart disease The heart is the body’s engine, hands and feet, these parts of the body far from the heart because the blood is more difficult to reach, itself is easy to low temperature. If the heart is weak or suffering from certain cardiovascular diseases, the heart’s ability to pump blood is reduced, the hands and feet are naturally prone to cold. Key people: patients with cardiovascular disease, people who usually lack exercise. 2, abnormal thyroid function like a butterfly wing thyroid gland is located directly below the throat node, it secretes thyroxine affects the human heart rate, whistling frequency, the rate of calorie burning, skin care, growth, heat production, fertility and digestion. Insufficient secretion of thyroid hormones can cause hypothyroidism, which not only makes a person easily cold, but also results in rough skin, thinning hair, fatigue, drowsiness, poor memory, unresponsiveness, edema, low appetite, and irregular menstruation. Key people: women. Because of the existence of special time periods such as menstruation, pregnancy and breastfeeding, women’s hormones fluctuate more, so thyroid disease also prefers women. 3, diabetes is a disease typically characterized by high blood sugar, the most frightening thing about this disease is that there are various complications, of which lower limb vasculopathy is the most common. Early diabetic patients may have cold, numbness, cramps, pain and other manifestations of the lower extremities, if not paid attention to, patients may lower extremity necrosis, requiring amputation. Key populations: middle-aged and elderly people, obesity, family history of diabetes and other high-risk groups. 4, blood circulation or vascular problems The dermal blood vessels in the skin layer are mainly responsible for regulating body temperature and expand in response to heat, increasing blood circulation on the skin surface to take away heat. When cold, blood vessels contract, allowing more blood to flow to the heart, lungs and other important organs. From this point of view, cold hands and feet is the body’s self-protection mechanism, and the nerves that govern the peripheral blood vessels are more sensitive in women than in men, and this performance is more obvious. But if your hands and feet are still cold in the summer, you should wonder if there is a problem with the blood circulation system or blood vessels. In addition, the cause of cold hands and feet may also be vitamin B12 deficiency, Raynaud’s disease, lupus erythematosus, scleroderma …… see this, there are girls to be unsettled, young to get these diseases? In fact, most girls have cold hands and feet is not a disease, but …… 1, wearing too little clothing, too tight winter wear too little, too tight are likely to lead to cold hands and feet. Tight bottoming pants, boots, fleece pants constrain your limbs, but also limit the degree of blood circulation, when the blood circulation slows down, people will not only feel cold, and in serious cases, also easy to frostbite. 2, eat too little, unbalanced nutrition The skin has epidermis, dermis and fat three layers, the fat layer is too thick although you appear more bloated, to the beautiful points, but has the role of insulation outside the body temperature. If you don’t eat regularly or have an unbalanced nutritional intake, the fat layer will be thin and you may have cold hands and feet. Properly eat more warm nature, rich in protein, iron, vitamin food, such as lamb, pork belly, red dates, help improve the body’s ability to resist cold! 3, lack of exercise jogging, brisk walking, jumping rope …… more exercise, in the short term can accelerate blood circulation and metabolism, so that people quickly warm up. Long-term adherence to exercise, enhance physical fitness, cold hands and feet unknowingly away from you! 4 small tricks to keep you away from cold hands and feet 1, sunshine Now people pay attention to sun protection all year round, losing a lot of opportunities to get in close contact with the sun. The sun shines on the body can soon feel warm, and from the point of view of Chinese medicine, the human body before the yin, after the yang, if conscious of the back of the sun, there is a complementary yang, resistance to the role of cold. 2, according to the name of the acupuncture point Yang Chi point, it means to gather the heat of the sun. With a little stimulation, you can quickly smooth the blood and warm the body. In addition, pressing the Hegu point, the Guanchong point or the Life Gate point behind the waist also has the effect of opening the meridians and dispersing cold and warmth. 3, drink ginger tea Add some ingredients inside the water, the warming effect can be doubled, such as using ginger, jujube infusion water to drink. 4, bubble feet Soak feet with hot water, heat penetrates into the skin, stimulating capillaries and accelerating blood circulation; thus achieving the role of nourishing the skin and keeping warm. Can also improve cold hands and feet.