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  • Find out more about chilblains and how to manage them with information from the Royal College of Podiatry.
  • People with diabetes are prone to chilblains but may not notice they have them, meaning they are at increased risk of them becoming infected. Find out more about the reasons for this from Diabetes UK
  • Raynaud’s phenomenon is a circulatory disorder that may affect as many as 10 million people in the UK. Find out more about it via the charity Scleroderma & Raynaud’s UK
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is mentioned above. Do you know about this condition? If not, find out from Versus Arthritis
  • Nifedipine is mentioned as a possible treatment for severe chilblains. Revise your knowledge of this drug, including what else it is used for and its side effects, by looking it up in the British National Formulary.
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