Did Any Of You

[Purple_Popple]

suffer from chilblains when you were little, I always did, agony they were, from about 7 up to teenage...I remember scratching them raw during maths class at school lol ! Not sure why they were so bad in the winter or what caused them.

[magsmay]

I've got one under my big toe at the moment and it literally drives me mad you just cannot get to the bottom of the itch! Tried everything but nothing workd -then it disappears in the summer -very strange!

[society]

Can you get chilblains on any part of the body?

[Purple_Popple]

Usually just hands & feet I think Society ?

[Buenchico]

Yes, I remember them only too well (and assuming that all children suffered from them and that they always would).

Causes here:
http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/chilblains/Pages/Causes.aspx

[tenrec]

I suffered dreadfully as a youngster. Funnily enough only today my big toe was pretending it had a chilblain. Used to say it was a sign it was going to snow.

[Prudie]

Luckily no I didn't but I do remember my feet regularly being like blocks of ice in wellies in the winter and my mum telling me off for warming them by the fire - she said I'd get chilblains. I've no idea if that was tosh.

[Brinjal]

I used to get on my hands and on the end of my nose very painful

[magsmay]

Prudie -its not tosh ;-) my chilblains have returned since we moved into our cottage that has a real fire -I come in from the cold and sit in front of the fire warming my toes -my mum used to say the same to me -and my gran used to say i'd get piles sitting on the cold step -I always wondered what I was going to get piles of lol!

[Prudie]

oh she was right then magsmay. Mind you I was told I'd get piles if I sat on the radiator!

[Purple_Popple]

I never got farmer giles after sitting on cold concrete lol ! I sympathize with you Magsmay, chilblains are awful !!

[chrissa1]

Same here prudie. We didn't have Central Heating thoughout the whole house when I was little and I remember my Mum telling me to get away from the fire.

[DaisyNonna]

Luckily never got chilblains. House always cold in winter.

[RATTER15]

I used to get chilblains as a child and I actually got them again just a few weeks ago from wearing Crocs in the cold weather and then coming into a warm house. Bloody itches and hurts, I hate them!!

[atalanta]

Very cold hands and feet get hot too quickly - I was told the chilblains developed because the tiny contracted blood-vessels broke with the sudden application of heat.
Chilblains may be a sign of Reynaud's disease ( especially in women ) which can be treated. I take Nifedipine in winter and it really helps.
If you do get chilblains, Snowfire ointment helps. If you can still get it.

[islasmum]

They can appear on other parts of the body as well - when I was in my 20's my mode of transport was a motor-bike, during the winter we had snow and of course wet weather; I used to get bad chilblains on the outside of my thighs, if I wsn't wearing my padded trousers, they were exactly where my jacket ended - they were absolute hell, itched like mad - fortunately I got a car for my Christmas present, and have never had them since.