Talk:Frostbite

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[edit] Causes of Frostbite

it should say the causes of frostbite -- —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 65.43.198.68 (talk • contribs).

I hope you mean something other than temperatureD-rew 04:24, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

The introductory paragraph explains it in pretty good detail... Sahuagin 16:29, 21 January 2007 (UTC) should have something about long term treatments such as the best creams to use

[edit] Pain during rewarming

I'm not entirely sure if this is worthy of a mention, but I had the fingers on my right hand rewarmed after a moderate case of Frostbite, and it was without a doubt the most excruciatingly painful event of my life. The only real description I found in an article was "Once the area is rewarmed, there can be significant pain", which made me wonder what the author's definition of "significant pain" was! Incidentally, the doctor at the time told me there was going to be "some pain" but that pain meant the tissue was still alive. I honestly cannot think of anything more painful, it felt like someone had lit a blowtorch to the bone inside my fingers. Icemotoboy (talk) 22:37, 4 December 2007 (UTC) hi —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.78.5.167 (talk) 17:51, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Vasoconstriction

I though vasoconstriction can occur at temperatures a lot greater than 0 degrees celsius. Vasoconstriction depends on a whole host of factors (psychological, due to spinal injury, temperature etc etc). "Approximately 60% of skin capillary circulation ceases in the temperature range of 3°to 11° C, whereas 35% and 40% of blood flow ceases in arterioles and venules, respectively.[67] Capillary patency is initially restored in thawed tissue, but blood flow declines 3 to 5 minutes later." I got this directly from the book Auerbach: Wilderness Medicine, 5th ed. from MD Consult. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 59.101.66.23 (talk) 07:37, 7 May 2008 (UTC)