LIMA, OH (WLIO) - With the plummeting temperatures of this storm system, being outside could become dangerous.
Health officials are urging people to bundle up and cover exposed skin if venturing out as the signs of hypothermia and frostbite can start in a short period of time. Fingers and toes can start to feel tingly, look red, and become painful and numb with frostbite. Hypothermia is when your body temperature starts to drop with shivering, feeling lethargic with numbness throughout your body. If experiencing these symptoms get to a warm area.
"So if you start to feel that your extremities are not warming up or you're feeling a lack of sensation, even after trying some of the basic things such as getting into a warm area or you start to have extreme pain, blistering, you have discoloration to your fingers or if your skin gets blue or grey is a reason to come to the ER or a local urgent care, for example, to get seen immediately," stated Dr. Paul Leonard, Lima Memorial Health System.
Dr. Leonard says if you do go out, be sure to drink plenty of water and layer up with clothing.
