Why am I freezing all the time: reasons for what to do

“I’m cold all the time,” you com­plain to oth­ers. You feel cold even in the warmth, you have con­stant­ly cold hands and feet, and even under the cov­ers you can’t get warm for a long time … What are the rea­sons and what to do?

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Why am I cold all the time

1. Not enough fat

The rea­son that you are con­stant­ly cold may be a lack of fat in the diet. The fat lay­er is the main source of ener­gy in the body and a par­tic­i­pant in the syn­the­sis of fat-sol­u­ble vit­a­mins A, D, E, K. The dai­ly fat intake for women is 70–100 g. This, for exam­ple, is 100 g of sun­flower or olive oil, 100 g of hazel­nuts, 200 g cheese or the same amount of roast­ed sun­flower seeds. Also, count how many kilo­calo­ries you con­sume per day. If the doc­tor has not indi­cat­ed a dif­fer­ent rate, there should be at least 1500 of them. With insuf­fi­cient nutri­tion, the body sim­ply has nowhere to take ener­gy from. Also to keep warm.

2. Not enough iron

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One of the com­mon caus­es of per­sis­tent chill­i­ness is iron defi­cien­cy ane­mia. There­fore, it makes sense to check the lev­el of hemo­glo­bin. If it is below 110 g / l, adjust the diet. Iron is best absorbed from meat (by 15–35%). From veg­etable prod­ucts (beans, jack­et pota­toes, turnips, sauer­kraut) — no more than 20%. Vit­a­min C pro­motes the absorp­tion of iron, while tea and cof­fee inter­fere. But keep in mind: you can’t cure advanced ane­mia with a diet. You need to take the med­i­cine pre­scribed by the doc­tor.

3. The reason is diabetes

Anoth­er pathol­o­gy that pre­vents you from warm­ing up is type II dia­betes. Due to meta­bol­ic dis­or­ders, the body does not receive the right amount of ener­gy, and blood cir­cu­la­tion wors­ens. A char­ac­ter­is­tic sign of dia­betes is often numb legs, which not only freeze, but also lose their sen­si­tiv­i­ty. Blood and urine tests for glu­cose lev­els and a blood test for gly­cat­ed hemo­glo­bin will help con­firm the diag­no­sis. The nor­mal blood glu­cose lev­el is between 3.3 and 5.5 mmol/L.

4. Thyroid problems

This organ plays an impor­tant role in the reg­u­la­tion of heat trans­fer and affects the metab­o­lism of fats and car­bo­hy­drates. When the func­tion of the thy­roid gland decreas­es, the metab­o­lism slows down and the per­son begins to freeze even in sum­mer. If, in addi­tion to sen­si­tiv­i­ty to cold, you are wor­ried about dry skin, swelling, your mood often changes, sleep is dis­turbed, donate blood for TSH, T4 hor­mones.

5. Varicose veins are to blame

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Cold feet? Cold feet can also be a sign of vari­cose veins. This dis­ease caus­es a vio­la­tion of blood flow in the veins. The best pre­ven­tion of vari­cose veins and its unpleas­ant con­se­quences is high-qual­i­ty com­pres­sion under­wear and the use of veno­ton­ic drugs pre­scribed by a doc­tor. If dur­ing the day you walked a lot, lie down for 15 min­utes in the evening, throw­ing your legs on a roller or pil­low.

In the morn­ing, do gym­nas­tics for the legs: walk around the room, first on your toes, then on your heels. Anoth­er exer­cise that improves blood cir­cu­la­tion in the legs is the “bicy­cle” (do it for at least 3 min­utes). Dur­ing the day, espe­cial­ly if you spend it sit­ting in the office, do this exer­cise. Stand near the wall and, lean­ing on it with your hands, rise on your toes and fall on your heels 20 times.

6. You are hypotonic

Oth­er com­mon caus­es of cold sen­si­tiv­i­ty are low blood pres­sure and low vas­cu­lar tone.
In both cas­es, blood cir­cu­la­tion slows down, espe­cial­ly in the periph­er­al ves­sels that sup­ply blood to the palms and feet. There­fore, hypoten­sive patients often have cold hands and feet. Reg­u­lar phys­i­cal activ­i­ty will help you nor­mal­ize your blood pres­sure.

What to do if you are cold for no reason

If, in addi­tion to increased sen­si­tiv­i­ty to cold, you do not com­plain about any­thing, per­haps the mat­ter is in the char­ac­ter­is­tics of the body. If the ves­sels con­tract rapid­ly in response to changes in tem­per­a­ture or stress, you will often com­plain of being cold. But this state can be cor­rect­ed.

• Include gin­ger, hot pep­pers, gar­lic, cloves, cumin and mus­tard in your diet. These spices improve heat trans­fer.
• Take a con­trast show­er in the morn­ing. You can start with a com­bi­na­tion of “hot, then warm.” Alter­nate­ly turn on hot and warm water (for 15–20 sec­onds each) for 3 min­utes. When you get used to it, try the com­bi­na­tion “warm, cool and final­ly warm.” Then “warm, cold (20°), warm.” A con­trast show­er, if tak­en reg­u­lar­ly, will improve vas­cu­lar tone and teach the body to per­ceive tem­per­a­ture changes more calm­ly.

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• If you feel cold out­side, try tens­ing all your mus­cles 5–10 times, and then quick­ly relax them. Or take 10–12 deep breaths and sharp exha­la­tions.
• If your feet often freeze, do cir­cu­lar rota­tions with your feet — 5 times in one direc­tion and the oth­er. If your hands are cold, take a pen­cil and start rolling it quick­ly between your palms. On the palms are points asso­ci­at­ed with inter­nal organs. If you mas­sage them well, you will warm up faster.