cold injury

Frostbite: Description, Types, Symptoms

Brief overview What is frostbite?: In frostbite, the skin and tissues are poorly perfused and damaged due to severe exposure to cold. There are different types of frostbite, depending on the extent of the damage, doctors distinguish three degrees of severity. Symptoms: Depending on the severity of frostbite: from mild redness and swelling to skin … Frostbite: Description, Types, Symptoms

Frostbite

Symptoms In localized frostbite, the skin becomes pale, cold, hard, and insensitive to touch and pain. Only when it warms and thaws does redness appear and severe, pulsating pain, burning, and tingling set in. In addition, edema and blisters may form and, in a severe course, tissue dies. Often affected are exposed parts of the … Frostbite