Fingertips pain is a very difficult sort of pain. You feel like something is pinching you. Fingertips are extremely sensitive. The reason is that they consist of many touch and temperature receptors even more than normal percentage of the other organs of the body. This pain can be slight to severe. There can also be many reasons for this pain.
WHAT CAN CAUSE FINGERTIPS PAIN?
There are many environmental and medical conditions for fingertips pain. Medical conditions that are linked with the nerves, muscles, or bones can become causes of the pain.
RAYNAUD’S DISEASE :
This is a condition in which marginal blood vessels exaggerate to cold conditions and it further causes spasms. Spasm use to block the blood flow towards the fingers, toes, ears, and nose. So this may be the reason behind your fingertips pain.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
• Coldness of your fingers
• The change of complexion of your skin over fingers. First they may turn blue from white and eventually they can turn into red.
• Impassiveness in the fingers
• Sores in the fingertips
• pain especially in the tips of the fingers
TREATMENT:
• Keep your hands warm. Use gloves. Try to avoid all the chores and things that can become a reason of some coldness.
• Quit smoking. It will narrow down the vessels more than earlier.
• Evade caffeine.
• soak your hands in warm water in case of any pain or coldness
PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY :
There are many disease and conditions that use to damage the vessels and nerves like diabetic. It can destroy your nerves to a dangerous level. This situation is known as peripheral neuropathy.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
• Impassiveness, itchiness or burning in the fingertips.
• Extreme sensitivity to touch
TREATMENT :
• try to maintain your blood pressure levels
• Eat healthy and remain active. follow a healthy life style
• remain busy
• quit smoking
FROSTBITE :
This can also cause the fingertips pain. Frostbite is a condition in which a cold injury happens to tissues. It happens when the skin and basic tissue get freeze. This condition happens due to the long and direct exposure of the particular area to the cold.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
The symptoms include cold, white, skin with numbness in it. When tissue starts melting the real issue and pain starts afterward.
TREATMENT :
Protect your fingers from severe cold. If you are going somewhere outside then wear the gloves. Soak hands in warm water to reduce the pain instantly. Never try to keep your fingers warm by using the stove heat etc. you may get the burns over the fingers.
FINGER ARTHRITIS :
Like Osteoarthritis and rheumatoid arthritis is the same causing pain in fingertips. One can feel pain in the middle finger or in thumb etc.
WHAT ARE THE SYMPTOMS?
Initially arthritis can cause a dull, burning sensation in your fingers especially in the tips. With the passage of time as it becomes worse one can feel pain in the whole of the hand even if you use it for a very minor work.
TREATMENT :
Heat the fingertips or use ice in this condition.