Talk:Trench foot

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Removed
Removed material taken from.

Although it is not clear, I think the text (and images?) on Spartacus Schoolnet may be copyright. There is a notice on this Schoolnet page. -- Solipsist 12:02, 17 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Its some pretty scary stuff... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.3.83.90 (talk) 18:00, 7 September 2014 (UTC)

On merging
Well no, I don't think it is a good idea to merge this article with Chilblain. I'm not a doctor, and both ailments may have the same physical cause, but there seems to be a significant difference in the level of seriousness.

As a child I used to get chilblains in winter, its really quite common. And I know that they can be uncomfortable and even quite serious when the skin breaks, but they are rarely disabling and for the most part are just an irritation. Trench foot on the other hand, appears to be considerably worse. See for example the picture at the end of the schoolnet link &mdash; that's nothing like any chilblain I've ever had, but then perhaps that is really a picture of gangrene (watchout for the pictures in that article too).

By all means move the discussion of medical causes to chilblains and make that article a more useful scientific anaylsis of the cause and treatment. But the main body of this article should stay here for the benefit of readers on WWI history &mdash; most of whom would probably find a redirect confusing and wonder why 20,000 troops on the Western Front were incapacitated by chilblains. -- Solipsist 12:53, 18 January 2006 (UTC)

With Clog Foot
The text of the articles seems to suggest that they are the same condition, except one is caused by wearing wet clogs rather than standing with your feet in water. The text between the two descriptions of symptoms is practically identical. In addition Clog foot is an orphan page. Potkettle 13:57, 7 February 2007 (UTC)


 * Clog foot is unsourced. I am sceptical about merging (as opposed to just flat out deletion + redirect) without any independent verifiable sources.--ZayZayEM 03:56, 5 March 2007 (UTC)

reference for trench foot
Adnot, J. and Lewis, C.W., "Immersion Foot Syndromes" in Testbook of Military Medicine, Part III (Disease and the Environment), Office of the Surgeon General, U.S. Dept of hte Army, 1994, pp 55-68. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 70.245.148.198 (talk) 19:48, 25 January 2007 (UTC).

NFCI
I removed instances of the term "non-freezing cold injury", this term is not in the WHO or other medical links in the infobox, which are semi-up-to-date resources.

Please provide a cite for this, and be sure you are not confusing a disease classification with a disease.

Immersion foot is specific to feet. Is NFCI a broader classification for similar diseases such as Chilblain and Immersion foot which occur in non-freezing cold conditions. —Preceding unsigned comment added by ZayZayEM (talk • contribs) 22:29, 5 December 2007 (UTC)

Image accuracy
I've left a message on the photographgers Commons page. The picture looks more like pruning, than any actual cold-induced disease.

I think it may be misleading, as it suggests a milder condition is in fact the discussed (more serious) condition.--ZayZayEM (talk) 23:08, 22 October 2008 (UTC)

Five years is long enough to wait for authentication. An article on a medical condition should not contain an image that has no verification it really illustrates the subject, rather than just some bath-wrinkled feet. 150.243.14.39 (talk) 19:36, 7 June 2013 (UTC)

treatment/cure
this article does not contain information on treatment cure or prognosis. preventative measures are of no help for someone who finds they have this condition. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.96.119.56 (talk) 23:51, 27 March 2011 (UTC)

Trench Foot at Glastonbury?
Some people were even said to have developed trench foot at the 2007 Glastonbury Festival, as a result of the sustained cold and wet conditions at the event.[7] Unlikely to be true though. Glastonbury Festival only lasts 3 days - so given that you would be dry at the start, it is unlikely that you would develop trench foot in under 3 days! There are people living rough who don't develop the condition in just 3 days. Tabloid garbage, methinks. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.210.151.171 (talk) 10:43, 25 February 2012 (UTC)

On the line"trench foot leaves sufferers more susceptible to it in the future."
This line appears under characteristics, second paragraph. It seems as though this factoid has been in need of citation for 4 years. Is this ready to be removed? Is this in fact untrue? A few quick Googles brought up nothing of interest. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Drsatan1 (talk • contribs) 10:23, 29 November 2013 (UTC)

Vietnam
although i recently saw another reference to trench foot in a book on the vietnam war, i question whether the condition contracted there was actually trench foot. the etiology of the disorder proper is always listed as including cold, and the vasoconstriction and circulatory impairment this causes. speaking from personal experience, vietnam was rarely cold. rather, i think this condition was severe fungal infection itself, caused by the perpetually wet and hot (ideal for fungi) conditions. Toyokuni3 (talk) 05:09, 25 June 2014 (UTC)