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Lips become dry during winter
April 19th 2011 18:01
temperatures.
When the skin is chilled over the entire body immediate reflex effects are involved to increase the temperature of the body. The two important effects are providing a strong stimulus to cause shivering, with resultant increase in the rate of body heat production and promoting skin vasoconstriction to diminish the transfer of body heat to the skin.
The effects of hypothermia depend on whether there is whole body exposure or exposure of only body parts.
When the whole body is exposed, metabolic processes; particularly in the brain and medullary centres slow down, causing death, before apparent changes in the cells or local reactions will occur in the parts of the body.
When only parts of the body gets exposed to very chill temperature, the local reactions begin to appear. These reactions are chilling and freezing of cells and tissues leading to frost bite. The injury is in two ways. (1) Crystallisation of the intra and extra-cellular water causing physical dislocation within the cells, which is the direct effect. (2) The indirect effects are exerted by circulatory changes. Depending on the rate at which the temperature drops and the duration of the temperature, slowly developing chilling may induce vasoconstriction and increased permeability, leading to oedematous changes. This results in the dryness of the body skin and also lips.
When the drop in temperature persists for a long time atrophy and fibrosis may follow, which result in permanent circulatory impairment as well as tissue damage. Often gangrene follows thawing and the frostbitten areas are lost.
This we often experience in the lips by the appearance of infarction necrosis of affected areas even after the temperature begins to return towards normal.
When the skin is chilled over the entire body immediate reflex effects are involved to increase the temperature of the body. The two important effects are providing a strong stimulus to cause shivering, with resultant increase in the rate of body heat production and promoting skin vasoconstriction to diminish the transfer of body heat to the skin.
The effects of hypothermia depend on whether there is whole body exposure or exposure of only body parts.
When the whole body is exposed, metabolic processes; particularly in the brain and medullary centres slow down, causing death, before apparent changes in the cells or local reactions will occur in the parts of the body.
When only parts of the body gets exposed to very chill temperature, the local reactions begin to appear. These reactions are chilling and freezing of cells and tissues leading to frost bite. The injury is in two ways. (1) Crystallisation of the intra and extra-cellular water causing physical dislocation within the cells, which is the direct effect. (2) The indirect effects are exerted by circulatory changes. Depending on the rate at which the temperature drops and the duration of the temperature, slowly developing chilling may induce vasoconstriction and increased permeability, leading to oedematous changes. This results in the dryness of the body skin and also lips.
When the drop in temperature persists for a long time atrophy and fibrosis may follow, which result in permanent circulatory impairment as well as tissue damage. Often gangrene follows thawing and the frostbitten areas are lost.
This we often experience in the lips by the appearance of infarction necrosis of affected areas even after the temperature begins to return towards normal.
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