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Frostbite is however an acute cold injury. General frostbite usually results from the sleep outdoors in minus degrees. There arises consciousness, and there is no question about skin care without immediate hospitalization. What you can treat yourself is the case of local frostbite, ie isolated body parts – fingers, toes, nose, ears, chin, cheeks – which have been cooled sufficiently strong to frozen liquids. Like burns, they are divided into degrees.
1) Easy local frost damage: The blood vessels to constrict and the skin becomes white in spots or larger areas. First, the area becomes stiffly, knitting needles and painful, but after a while lost touch and it does not hurt or feel cold. Read the rest of this entry »