Lower limbs cold signal or disease 
 
 
Peng Yongjiang The second affiliated hospital of zhengzhou university 
 
 
China's traditional Chinese medicine to 

        Every winter, many old people will feel the cold of lower limb, with the body structure of the human body are inseparable. Because of human lower limb affected by gravity, furthest distance heart again at the same time, local blood flow is relatively slow, plus the elderly fight cold ability is poorer, less cold day of activities, feel the lower limb cold in cold weather, this belongs to the normal physiological phenomenon, as long as pay attention to the leg to keep warm, strengthen exercise, cold will be naturally eliminated. However, some old people lower limb cold after the implementation of these measures is still difficult to eliminate, should be vigilant, as this is likely to be "signal" of certain diseases. In this case, the general should consider the following diseases. 
 
        Early buerger's disease pathogenesis, the general expression for the cold feeling after the feet are cold, numbness, pain, walking legs acid bilges, lack of power. Once became seriously ill, and there will be intermittent lameness, cold, numbness, pain symptoms of lower limbs. 
 
        Occlusive atherosclerosis disease first performance for lower limb chills, numbness and intermittent lameness. Development as the illness, appear ill lower limb skin was pale, hypesthesia, temperature lowering, muscle atrophy, toenail thickening and deformation, etc. Because of this disease is one of systemic atherosclerosis disease, patients with high blood pressure, diabetes and hyperlipidemia, if these symptoms, should be especially alert to the occurrence of the disease. 
 
        Raynaud's disease is a disease of neurovascular dysfunction caused by the extremities small artery spasmodic disorders, mainly for fingers and limbs acromegaly paroxysmal white, purple, purple, flush and pain, etc., often because of the cold stimulation or too emotional. 
 
        The disease mainly for lower limb cold multiple aorto arteritis, accompanied by lower limb weakness, numbness, pain, etc., there is considerable part of the disease in patients with arteritis affected lower limb circulation of the blood supply arteries, leading to lower limb ischemia hypoxia and eventually pathogenic. 
 
        Plant nerve function disorder suffer from this kind of disease patients will also show the lower extremities, cold and often accompanied by heart palpitations, shortness of breath, sweating, abdominal distension, headache, fatigue, insomnia, and physical discomfort and other symptoms, but when the physical examination and asymptomatic, should be taken into consideration seriously. 
 
        In addition, some patients with lower limb cold reason could be that is at work in the spirit, such as hysteria patients might be caused by language implies lower limb cold feeling, for such patients, with psychological suggestion therapy will have obvious effect. 
 
        Thus, lower limbs cold condition in the elderly, should not be taken lightly, and taken for granted, it shall timely to the hospital inspection, eliminate disease as early as possible.
 
 
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