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Health & Fitness > First Aid How to treat frostbite

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Frostbite is a localized cold injury, which occurs when parts of the body are exposed to intense cold. Most commonly, localized cooling or freezing afects the ears, nose, face, hands, fingers and toes. When that happens blood flow to that part is limitted because the blood vessels have constricted. As a result the tissue freezes and, in the most secere cases, gangrene (or localized tissue death can occur). There are two types of localized cold injuries: early and superficial, also called frostnip, and late and deep - frostbite. Frostbite will develop if an early cold injury has been left u...

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