An Irritating and miserable symptom which can occur in the winter months, in children and adults.
What are Chilblains…?
Chilblains are sore spots that usually occur on fingers and toes or though they can occur in other parts of the body, eg. thighs.
They are sore, itchy and inflammed and occur when an individual is exposed to cold and humidity. The cold exposure damages the capillary (little blood vessel), beds in the skin which in turn causes localized inflammation. This sore spots, known as chilblains, can take up to 10 days to a fortnight to heal.
Prevention
Avoid rapid changes in temperatures – eg:-
- Having very hot baths when you are cold,
- Having hot water bottles and keeping them just on your feet and toes.
- Getting cold hands and feet then warming them up too quickly. e.g. in front of fires, and electric heaters etc.
- Wearing tight restrictive clothing in the winter which reduces circulation to areas which then get very cold, e.g. tight trousers, tight socks etc
- Wearing Synthetic clothing, especially socks which don’t allow the skin to breathe, e.g. wearing synthetic socks and then getting cold damp feet. Wearing woollen socks prevents this from occurring.
Treatment
Apply Traumel Gel or Traumeel Cream on the area twice a day.
Chilblains respond extremely well to traumeel. If you do this and at the same time become aware of what causes chilblains, as listed above, and so take measures to try and prevent them from reoccurring at the same time.
Our Experience
This is not difficult for you to guess why I have written this blog in the middle of winter here in the UK! As you can probably guess what I did when Sasha one of our daughters complained of chillbalins in her toes late one evening… I quickly found our Traumeel Ointment and applied it on the sore areas.
The next day we treated them again and by that evening they had gone. Yet again- another fine example of why I use Traumeel – it just works so successfully for so many ailments and is such a great natural painkiller.
Of course there are many other items on the market but I have not yet found one that covers such a vast amount of ailments quite so effectively and is not chemical based…..
For a list of other ailments traumeel can be used for go to:- Traumeel Uses
Sasha my daughter.
