As your skin warms, you may feel pain and tingling.
Other traumatic causes of gangrene include compound fractures, burns, and animal bites.
In this article, we explain the symptoms, causes, and possible treatments for frostbite.
The skin first turns pale, and then acquires a bronze or purple color, followed by the formation of bullae blisters containing serous or hemorrhagic exudate with a pungent odor.
In such cases, there is a lot of burning in the affected skin.
These tests may include culture of drainage from a wound or tissue sample obtained through surgical exploration.