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Reynauds Disease -From article in backpackers club journal Winter 2004
The US military worked out a treatment regime for this.It is aimed at convincing the sympathetic nervous system that there is no need to shut off the peripheral circulation just because it is a bit chilly out.
Start in a nice warm place with nice warm hands.Fill a bucket with water at 44c[and keep a kettle on hand to keep the temperature up].Don't worry too much about the measurement 44c is about the hottest you can keep your hands in.Go to a cold place [at least 10c colder than the warm place preferably much colder] and sit for half an hour with your hands /feet in the water.
don't worry about the cold ,you'll absorb so much heat through your hands as to be sweating at the end.Go back to a warm place,dry hands thoroughly and keep them warm.
Do this every day for a month .Results -after frostbite years ago I have had bad problems with circulation.I have been doing this for a week and my hands have only gone blue once.I have also spent a day outside at 4C with no circulation cut off when normally my hands go blue below 15c.
Some people need to renew the treatment every year others every few years ,others never.Well see how effective it is after the full month.
Ok so that was last year .It was a bit late in spring so the results seemed promising but no great shakes.Now it's cold enough that I should have had blue hands and a good crop of chilblains for a couple of months.But no circulation problems at all.My hands are like a humans...no circulation cut offs,no chilblains and I have been much less carefulabout keeping them warm too.So it looks like last years treatment did work and very effectively.
Hope this may be of some help