Cold injuries

Prolonged exposure to climatic cold may result in various cold injuries. Frostbite is the most common and results from the freezing of tissues.

1. In 2000, a 29-year-old doctor was caught under ice in a Norwegian river for more than an hour. He survived, although his body temperature decreased to 13.7 degrees centigrade.

1. Injuries
2. Ill-defined health conditions in animals
3. Disease and injury from exposure to weather

1. Immersion foot
2. Hypothermia
3. Frostbite
4. Chilblains

1. Inadequate protection from cold weather
2. Excessive climatic cold
3. Cold body extremities

1. Disharmony of Coldness in the body

1. Injury