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A 10-year-old boy, who was outdoors in windy and cold weather, developed moderate pain and tingling in his fingers and toes. When he had returned home, his parents noticed that the tips of his fingers and toes were white and their sensitivity was lost. The affected areas are warming up, the fingers are tingling and in pain. Skin pallor changed into redness, tingling stopped, slight itching and swelling of the fingers appeared. Determine the frostbite degree in this child:

Answer options

  1. Frostbite of the III degree
  2. Frostbite of the IV degree
  3. Perniosis
  4. Frostbite of the II degree
  5. Frostbite of the I degree
Correct answer

Frostbite of the I degree

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