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 SIGNS AND SYMPTOMS
The Raynaud illness is characterized for showing the white fingers after exhibition to the cold, with shooting pain. The skin can become blue or red before it recovers.
GENERAL INFORMATION
The Raynaud illness is a changes result in the circulation of the hands or the feet. In fact, a big exaggeration of the phenomenon is a normal reflex for which the blood glasses of the extremities contract when it is cold. The cause of this exaggerated predisposition is not known.
The Raynaud illness is frequent, affecting 1 of every 20 persons. It is from 4 to 5 times more frequent in women. Typically, the first episode happens before 40 years.
PHENOMENON OF RAYNAUD
The Raynaud illness is an independent process not associated with no other problem or illness. In contrast, the Raynaud phenomenon is the same process associated with illnesses like the escleroderma, exhibition with certain chemical substances (especially chloride of vinyl, used in the industry of the gums), or long use of hardware vibrátiles, like the pneumatic hammers.
ACROCIANOSIS
It is another related illness, in which there exists persistent coldness of the fingers or other affected areas. The coldness is usually almost permanent. As the Raynaud illness, also it is an independent process not associated with no other problem or illness. The cold feeling is accompanied usually of sudoración excessive.
TREATMENT
For most of the affected ones, the Raynaud phenomenon does not happen of being an inconvenience any more than an impeachment it would be. Only very rarely there can take place long-term, such serious consequences as gangrene or ulcers in the egg yolks of the fingers.
PREVENTION
To avoid attacks of illness of Raynaud, it is essential to be protected from the cold, by means of the use of suitable clothes, handling drinks cold and frozen with gloves or suitable isolation, etc. not smoking is also very important, since the nicotine diminishes the blood flow to the skin.
MEDICATION
To prevent anti-flu and dietetic tablets from containing the compound fenilpropanolamina. To avoid also the contraceptive oral ones, which they affect to the "microcirculation" (the smallest blood glasses, including those of the skin). Sometimes it can be necessary to take every day a medication that prepares the spasms of glasses that lead to the Raynaud illness.
SURGERY
In extreme cases, it can be necessary to come to the call simpatectomía, that is to say, to cut the nerves that control the blood glasses to avoid the spasms, or the nice blockade, which consists of annulling the above mentioned nerves by means of the injection in them of chemical substances. Not always it is effective. It is necessary to consider it to be a last resource for very serious cases.
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