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What causes skin to do this?

Okay, my sister showed me something cool that you can do with ice and salt. You first wet your skin and cover the wet area with salt. Then, you press down on it with a cube of ice for about a minute. It stings a litle bit, but when you take the ice off, the area is cold, hard, and white. After about 20 seconds it turns softer and red and puffy. I did it to myself for several minutes and it turned into a welt.

Does anyone know what causes skin to react that way with salt and ice?

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Answer #1

Ya, we’re definately not doing that again. It was cool until the marks didn’t go away. They starting to fade so I don’t think the skin is dead.

Answer #2

Haha, I know. We were really bored. It’s not like we were doing any self inflicting injuries, we were just messing around until it started causing welts. I’m just curious as to why that happened. lol.

Answer #3

what you have created with the salt and the ice cube..is frost bite actually… and its considered a form of self harm..and if you dont treat those areas properly..it can scar because frostbite is essentially dead flesh.

Answer #4

nl83 is right its very dangerouse to do that and if you keep it up you could actually kill the skin there and that will get infected and start to go black, and then kill the skin around it its defenetly not “cool”

Answer #5

lol whats wrong with you? you guys have way too much time on your hands.

Answer #6

Heh, that’s almost like an ice burn ( I know oxymoron but its true) You can actually “burn” off the skin or rip it off, most people see that when they take a piece of ice and just apply it direclty to the skin. Sort of like A christmas story movie, where he sticks his tongue to the ice pole and it sticks. It’s like a burn almost, but instead of fire, its ice. Or, as someone else mentioned, frost bite.

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