What to do if you froze your fingers
First, find a warm room. Let it be any nearby store or just an entrance. Try to move vigorously to get warm faster. Wave your hands. When the blood flow begins to recover, shove the palms into the armpits. This old way will help to warm your hands efficiently and quickly. Also try to make sharp movements with shoulders up and down, and hands at this time to spread along the body. Thus, it is possible to disperse the blood flow perfectly.
When you get to the house, you need to release the fingers that you froze from all the ornaments and take off cold clothes. Now, type a warm bath. It's a little warm, but in any case not hot! The water temperature should be about 20 degrees. Slowly, with the advent of sensitivity, you can add a little boiling water. As soon as the pain begins to pass, slowly and gently begin to rub your fingers. After the warming bath, you must apply a dry bandage. It consists of gauze and cotton wool with a layer of cellophane to keep the heat. Have a cup of warming tea.
If, after all the procedures performed, the skin on the injured area turned red, and pain appeared, which means that you have done everything right and you will hardly need the help of medical personnel. In the event that the frozen area of the skin continues to be white, it means that the blood flow in this place is not normal and you should consult a doctor. It is better to be safe. After all, if you do not contact a specialist on time in case of severe frostbite, this can lead to amputation or even gangrene.
What can not be done if you froze your fingers
In no case can not strongly and vigorously rub the damaged skin. And even more so apply to them alcohol or snow. Also, extreme temperature changes are very undesirable. That is, do not use a heater, a heating pad or a battery for warming up.
Because the degree of frostbite can be different. You are lucky, if you just numb your fingers and get a white color, then this is the first degree of frostbite. After warming, pain will appear, and the skin will turn blue, while it will form a swelling. But these symptoms will pass for a couple of days.
The second degree of frostbite is characterized by the death of the upper layers of the skin. To blue color and puffiness are added bubbles with a clear liquid inside, which appear on the second day. As a rule, these symptoms also take place in a few days.
If the injured area of the skin to the touch is cold, has a white color, there are no painful sensations, then you have a third degree of frostbite. At this stage, not only the skin surface, and internal fat tissue, suffers. Two days later, as a rule, bubbles appear with a bloody liquid and the affected areas of the skin begin to tear away.
The last stage (fourth) is necrosis. Not only the surface of the skin and its fat layer are involved, but also bone tissue. Unfortunately, if you strongly froze your fingers, this stage is very difficult to distinguish from the previous one, in the first two or three days. Only after the expiration of this period, with the help of special techniques, it is possible to determine the present degree of frostbite.