What about frostbite in winter?

What about frostbite in winter? Small coup to prevent frostbite!

Frostbite is a local inflammatory injury caused by cold, which is a common disease in winter. According to statistics, there are 200 million people suffering from chilblain in China every year, mainly children, women and the elderly. Once frostbite occurs, it is often difficult to cure it quickly in cold season, and it will gradually heal after the weather gets warmer. The key to reduce frostbite is to start prevention before winter. The following small series will talk about how to prevent and treat frostbite in winter.

Etiology of chilblain

Frostbite is caused by capillary damage after human body is frozen. However, due to some people's weakness and anemia, capillaries can not be repaired in time, leading to blood stasis. It is swollen because of blood stasis, and itches because of blood stasis. The only way to cure frostbite is to completely repair capillaries and get rid of congestion. Other methods are like scratching in shoes. Only when the capillaries are completely repaired and the blood stasis is opened can the swelling disappear and the itching stop. In winter or cold and humid environment, coupled with the weakness of qi and blood at ordinary times, or because of hunger, or after illness, or because of sedentary, less exercise, the invasion time of cold evil is too long, which consumes Yang Qi, leading to poor circulation of qi and blood, stagnation of qi and blood stasis, chilblain and even skin rot. In addition, cold and hot, or hot and cold, will also cause qi and blood stasis, ulceration into sores. Excessive cold pathogen, excessive consumption of yang, can die of yang failure.

Harm of chilblain

1. caused some sequelae. If chilblain is not treated promptly and effectively, it will often be followed by intractable dermatitis and eczema, which is called "stubborn tinea" by Chinese medicine, which will aggravate the psychological burden of chilblain patients!

2. Causes chilblain phobia, which seriously affects mental health. I have seen many patients with chilblain. After several years of frostbite cure, I often suspect that I have frostbite, which has become a lingering psychological shadow, seriously affecting the quality of work and study.

3. Toxicity of several drugs for treating chilblain. Many drugs for treating chilblain contain highly toxic-666, which is potentially carcinogenic! This is the biggest potential harm of chilblain!

5. Seriously affect the quality of life. Because chilblain itches every night, it will seriously affect the mood of patients.

First, the method of radical cure chilblain

1, taking and rubbing medicine

People with chilblain constitution can increase their intake of vitamins A, C and minerals in January before winter, and can take nicotinamide tablets 0. 1g orally, three times a day, and calcium tablets 0.5g, three times a day, so as to enhance the cold tolerance of the body. You can also apply pepper tincture (take 20 grams of dried pepper, soak it in 500 ml of 75% alcohol, and use it after 7 days), and rub it 2-3 times a day. Traditional Chinese medicine can be treated orally with "Ginseng Yang Rong Decoction": Angelica sinensis 12g Cinnamomum cassia 10g Radix Paeoniae Alba 12g Rhizoma Chuanxiong 12g Ramulus Cinnamomi 10g Cortex Zingiberis Recens 10g (this medicine can be replaced by 8 g dried ginger) Radix Codonopsis/kloc-0.

2. Temperature difference bubble method

Take a pot of water at 15℃ and a pot of water at 45℃, first soak your hands and feet in low-temperature water for 5 minutes, and then soak them in high-temperature water. If you dry the ground three times a day, can you exercise the contraction and expansion function of blood vessels and reduce the occurrence of frostbite?

3. Physical exercise methods

Strengthen physical exercise suitable for your own conditions, such as practicing qigong, dancing, skipping rope, etc. Or use the interval between washing hands, face and feet every day to gently rub your skin until it is slightly hot, so as to promote blood circulation, eliminate microcirculation obstacles and achieve the purpose of "promoting blood circulation".

How to prevent chilblain?

1, actively participating in sports activities, speeding up the circulation of qi and blood, is conducive to the repair of sores. It can also prevent frostbite from happening again.

2, pay attention to cold and warm in cold season.

3. Clothes, shoes and socks should be loose and dry.

4. Those who relapse every year can gradually develop the habit of washing their faces, feet, bodies and baths with cold water in summer to improve their cold tolerance.

People who are afraid of cold in winter can eat more hot food, such as mutton, dog meat, venison, pepper, ginger, cinnamon and so on.

6, the disease occurs all year round and can be cured in winter and summer. Repeated external rubbing and conditional infrared physiotherapy self-treatment have better effects in dog days. We should treat both internal and external problems as early as possible before winter.

Matters needing attention in patients with chilblain

1. Do not use heating measures such as fire roasting or hot water scalding to re-warm. Don't bathe in cold water, rub with snow, beat, etc.

2. In a warm environment, you can give patients a small amount of hot wine to promote blood circulation and dilate peripheral blood vessels. However, it is not advisable to drink alcohol in a cold environment, so as not to increase body heat loss.

3. In the acute stage of frostbite, limb movements must be avoided. Once acute inflammation dissipates, finger (toe) joints should be moved as soon as possible to prevent joint stiffness, help restore muscle tension, and protect muscle odor and ligament elasticity.

4. The seriously injured should be injected with tetanus toxoid to prevent tetanus.

5. To prevent frostbite, we should insist on physical exercise, enhance cold resistance, and wash hands, faces and feet with cold water. Pay attention to the warmth of exposed parts of the body in winter and apply some grease. Exercise properly when on duty to promote blood circulation. Boiling water with eggplant straw or pepper straw, cleaning the parts prone to frostbite, or rubbing local skin with ginger can prevent frostbite.

6. Patients with severe frostbite should go to the hospital for treatment in time.

Frostbite is a very annoying problem, we should pay attention to keep warm, prevent frostbite and make winter no longer troublesome!