What causes cold lower limbs in women?

The most common reason for female friends to have cold lower limbs is poor blood circulation. In this case, the blood flow inside the limbs will be hindered. If it is not improved, the blood will be blocked, which will easily cause cold symptoms. Moreover, when the blood vessels contract, it is also very easy to have cold lower limbs, which should be taken seriously.

Circulatory disorders

1. The heart is weak and cannot supply blood to the extremities of the body.

2. Anemia: insufficient circulating blood volume or low hemoglobin and red blood cells.

3. The human body's blood vessels will contract and the blood return ability will be weakened, resulting in poor blood circulation in the hands and feet, especially the fingertips, which is often called "poor peripheral circulation."

Traditional medicine believes that qi deficiency and blood deficiency will cause poor blood circulation and insufficient blood volume, resulting in cold hands and feet all year round.

Insufficient Yang Qi

Traditional Chinese medicine believes that cold hands and feet are a kind of "blocked syndrome". The so-called "blocked" means blocked. Affected by factors such as cool weather or cold body, the liver meridian is affected by cold, and the liver's hematopoietic function is affected, leading to insufficient kidney yang, cold limbs, red or white hands and feet, and even pain.

Hormonal changes

Among people with cold hands and feet, women account for the majority. This is because hormonal changes affect the nervous system, causing subcutaneous blood vessels to constrict and blood flow to decrease, thus causing cold symptoms.

If you are affected by cold evil, or have a weak constitution, or even emotional changes, your hands and feet may become cold. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the spleen is the source of the production of qi and blood. Spleen deficiency will lead to abnormal circulation of qi and blood, resulting in poor blood circulation in the body's extremities and poor resistance to cold.

To improve cold hands and feet, you should eat more foods that are warm in nature and have the effect of warming the spleen yang, such as lamb, pork tripe, red dates, honey, longan, glutinous rice, etc. In addition, you should exercise more, avoid sitting or standing for long periods of time; soak your feet in hot water before going to bed, etc.

When the pressure is too high

The pressure of work or time constraints may make your hands and feet cold and tremble. Once this tense period is over, they will slowly return to warmth.

Clothing not warm enough

If your hands and feet are cold, it means there is a problem with the even distribution of body temperature. If you have put on several layers of clothes but your hands and feet are still not warm enough, you should be careful, because for many people, the temperature receptors on the surface of the body are too dull to feel the "cold spots" of the body.

When the weather is cold or you stay in an air-conditioned room for a long time

All of these will reduce blood flow, slow down blood circulation, and make your hands and feet cold.

Autonomic dysfunction

Autonomic dysfunction, cold hands and feet caused by kidney deficiency

Hypothyroidism

Due to the decrease in the patient's basal metabolic rate, the body's heat production is significantly reduced. Even in the cold winter, no matter how many clothes the patient wears, his hands and feet are always cold.