Can Smoking And Drinking Worsen Small Fiber Neuropathy?

How To Smoke Your Way To Amputation

Are you a smoker who is suffering from small fiber neuropathy? Or are you planning to take up smoking anytime in the future? If you answered yes to any of these questions then you should read this article. While not all doctors agree, various medical studies have pointed to a correlation between smoking and the worsening of burning in one’s feet.

Inflammation of one’s feet has been known to be caused or worsened by smoking. The nicotine contained in cigarettes is to blame for this. While most people suffering from burning feet sensation are only affected by increased swelling, some of them needed to have their feet amputated in rare cases.

Now is the time to ask an important question: What’s more important to you, your feet or your cigarette smoking? Even if there is the slightest chance that I will end up losing my feet because of smoking, I would quit the bad habit right away.

How To Drink Your Way To Bloodless Feet

Aside from smoking, drinking is also a contributing factor to the worsening condition of one’s feet especially if one is suffering from small fiber neuropathy. While it would be alright for you to drink occasionally, it would not be wise to engage in prolonged drinking. This would result in further damaging of the nerves in your feet.

The more damaged the nerves in your feet become the lower blood circulation there will be. Blood provides oxygen to your feet, so they will start feeling numb due to the lack of it. Likewise, blood also provides important nutrients to your feet. It is also responsible for curing diseases and physical injuries.

If are suffering from neuropathy it would be best to give up on the bad habits of smoking and drinking. Your health should surely be more important than engaging in vices. All your medicines and doctor’s fees will be useless if you don’t help yourself as well.