When the swelling occurs in the arm, it can affect the fingers and cause pruney fingers. Other symptoms of lymphedema include:. Learn more about lymphedema. When the inflammation occurs in the fingers, they might become red and pruney due to the swollen glands.
Other symptoms of lupus vary widely, and many are present in other conditions not associated with lupus. Symptoms can include:.
Vitamin B is just one of the vitamins that can keep you from developing pruney fingers. It is responsible for blood formation, nerve function, cell metabolism, and DNA production. However, if you are vegan or vegetarian, you have an increased chance of being deficient in vitamin B, since it is present in meat, poultry, fish, and dairy.
Symptoms of vitamin B deficiency include:. Learn more about vitamin B deficiency. The cause of your pruney fingers will determine what type of treatment you need. While pruney fingers caused by water immersion is a harmless condition and will quickly fade, and drinking more water often cures dehydration, other causes may require medical treatment.
Depending on the type of diabetes you have, your doctor may recommend monitoring your blood sugar, eating a healthy diet, and using insulin therapy or oral medications.
For hyperthyroidism, your treatment might include medications, radioactive iodine, surgery, or beta blockers. Hypothyroidism is usually treated with thyroid hormone medication in pill form and is usually taken for your entire life. Treatment for this condition can involve exercises, massage, compression garments, pneumatic compression, wrapping of the arm, and complete decongestive therapy CDT. There is no cure for lymphedema, only a managing of symptoms to reduce swelling and control pain.
Depending on the severity of the lupus, your doctor may suggest taking anti-inflammatory drugs NSAIDs , corticosteroids, or immunosuppressants. Changizi says that the results provide behavioral evidence "that pruney fingers are rain treads", which are consistent with his own team's morphological findings. What remains to be done, he adds, is to check that similar wrinkling occurs in other animals for which it would provide the same advantages.
Given that wrinkles confer an advantage with wet objects but apparently no disadvantage with dry ones, it's not clear why our fingers are not permanently wrinkled, says Smulders. But he has some ideas. This article is reproduced with permission from the magazine Nature. The article was first published on January 9, Already a subscriber? Sign in. About a year later, Kyriacos Kareklas and his colleagues at the Centre for Behaviour and Evolution at Newcastle University tested whether people with and without wrinkly fingers could pick up and move wet marbles from one box to another.
Sure enough, prune fingers were more efficient. Score one for Changizi. A big stumbling block, however, is that no one knows whether any animal—aside from humans and macaques—gets pruney fingers.
Answers will have to come from more studies of how humans use their wrinkly fingers and toes. Indeed, a study conducted by British neuroscientists uncovered evidence that wrinkled fingers aided people in manipulating wet objects.
In the experiment, 20 people had to transfer 45 objects of different sizes — all marbles and fishing weights — from one container into another. In other cases, the objects were submerged. They found that wrinkled fingers allowed the participants to more quickly transfer the objects when submerged, though they made no difference for dry objects. However, a similar study conducted by German researchers found the opposite.
In that study, the researchers had 40 people transfer 52 marbles and dice of different sizes and weights from one container into another. Likewise, a group of Taiwanese researchers conducted a series of experiments aided by a year-old male volunteer. They assessed the friction applied to a smooth surface by his smooth or wrinkled fingertips, for example, and how much force his hands applied when sliding across a bar. They also measured his ability to force two ends of a spring together.
Rather than finding no differences, however, they actually found that wet-wrinkles resulted in decreased performance for each test. The wrinkling of your skin is a perfectly natural reaction Credit: Getty Images.
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