We even upgraded to digital veins!
I believe this an outdated piece of medical advice based on cardiovascular health and arterial disease
I can bring a little more blood flow to your ass, instead.
I’m basically a werewolf, so I guess I must have great circulation.
Which is weird because my hands and feet are always cold to the touch.
Picturing the cat avatar saying it
Hank Green says it’s to prevent chafing! Probably.
I could pretty much braid the hair on my toes if I wanted to. I guess that means I’m healthy?
What about lots of hair on toes, but they feel cold but always sweating on toes. No illness that i’m ehm some body know off?
I have hairy toes with poor blood flow, so I’m a little skeptical.
I have renauds syndrome where my hands and feet are usually dead blocks of ice like a corpse that the Donner party couldn’t eat because it got too cold.
My feet are so hairy that I often wonder what utopia of a world I would live in if Lord of the Rings never existed.
I’m with you on being skeptical of the claim that hairy toes are a sign of good circulation.
Same, this is definitely not a rule. My extremities feel much colder than the rest of me most of the time. My toes are hairy because of genetics; I’m Middle Eastern.
Oh dear.
I use to have really hairy toes. I just checked and they are bald. Damn.
TIL, you’re dead!
I have naturally hairless toes and it has made several doctors check to see if I have diabetes.
Oh I know why they are bald. I just never noticed they were till I saw the post.
But definitely not diabetes. Just tons of other health issues I’m reluctant to post about with all the ai programs scraping the open internet.
Alright Lemmy graduates of Hollywood Upstairs Medical College: why are my toes hairy but my feet are always cold?
Increased bloodflow can actually drop the temperature of the limb. For instance, alcohol might make you feel warm, but due to the vasodilation you’re actually losing heat.
That is not how it works, unless we drop the temperature from a higher level down, e.g. when you have your hand in hot water or sunshine.
From the cold side it can only get warmer. That works until you die, which is not exactly relevant here. But the core temperature will, even then, still be higher (aka heating the limb) and there is no way around that due to how heat works.
I just mentioned it elsewhere in this thread, you might have Reynaud’s phenomenon. It’s a disorder that causes the capillaries in your fingers and toes (and elsewhere) to spasm and constrict when you are cold or stressed restricting blood flow. I suggest you talk to your doctor as it can be associated with other conditions.
Same. My toes and feet are so hairy but if it’s below 65 F my feet literally turn blue.
Probably Reynaud’s Phenomenon. I’m been diagnosed with this. My fingers and toes are often very cold and change colors (blue, purple, or even white). I’d suggest you talk to your doctor as there are medications that can help with this and it could be connected to an undiagnosed autoimmune disorder or connective tissue disorder.
I’ve thought about Reynauds, but my skin never turns white, just blue. I also get tingling sometimes in my heels, but never in my toes or fingers (which also turn blue). The people I’ve met with Reynauds also talk about it being painful and I’ve never had pain.
I have reynauds and for a long time it just skipped white. Also it’s rarely painful for me, which led to me just leaving my arms blood deficient too long
Are you particularly hard to draw blood from? And is it sometimes slower than normal, especially when it’s cold?
I am actually a stupidly easy stick. I am IV trained myself and for funsies and experience I’ve started large bore IVs in my own foot and ankle and also started a large bore IV one handed in my arm. I’ll have to ask my doctor about it next time I see her.
My mom had this due to having ESRD. She often did complain about the cold digits and sometimes color changes, but if she had associated pain she never mentioned it to me.
For real though I think it’s my iron deficiency. I had an ultrasound done on my legs because I was convinced I had a blood clot, and the technician was like, “you have excellent veins!” 😅
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