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From: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Re: Cold Hands (a different treatment)
Message-ID: <1016@burl.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 8-Feb-86 17:29:32 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  8 17:29:32 1986
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References: <194@noscvax.UUCP> <491@drutx.UUCP> <224@dcdwest.UUCP>
Reply-To: rcj@burl.UUCP (Curtis Jackson)
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In article <224@dcdwest.UUCP> benson@dcdwest.UUCP (Peter Benson) writes:
>I have the cold hands problem too.  Went to my Dr. and he
>prescribed Papaverine.  I am told by a pharmacist friend that
>Niacin is also helpful.
>
Although I normally have quite warm hands and feet, if I get them around
very cold things (ice water, snow, etc.) they cause me great pain.  This
has been traced to a circulatory problem, as someone has already mentioned,
and the name for it is Reynoud's (pronounced ray-no) Syndrome; probably from
the French doctor who decided to name it.

The best technique I have heard for treating this is simple if you can find
it:  biofeedback.  You simply teach yourself how to increase the circulation
in your extremeties.  I have taught myself this on my own with a good bit
of success.  The easiest way to do it is to first learn how to control your
heartrate, since you don't need fancy instruments for the feedback.  Once you
have some biofeedback experience under your belt, work on the circulation
problem.

It is really not nearly as hard or outlandish as it sounds -- give it a shot,
-- 

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