Gangrene is a type of tissue death which occurs due to loss of blood supply. This may affect any part of the body but usually affects the peripheral extremities like feet, toes, fingers, hands ...

The doctors had to amputate her big toe. Later, Lacey ... to discover that her toe needed to be amputated after it caught gangrene, leaving her hours away from "losing her life".

Often, the spot where your big toe joins your foot becomes red and callused. ... Gangrene. Diabetes affects the blood vessels that supply your fingers and toes.

But the 42-year-old noticed a "blister" from a particularly "severe" ingrown toenail on her left big toe in September ... and he said 'We're cutting your toe off in the morning. You have gangrene'.

Blue toe syndrome is when one or more of a person’s toes starts to look blue or purple due to a lack of circulation or tissue ischemia. It can be painful and lead to ulcers and gangrene, in some ...

Wounds are also more likely to be infected. Gangrene typically affects the toes, fingers, and limbs. It can also affect your muscles or organs, but this isn’t as common. This condition is ...

Most normal people have hair on the toes. Only 18, or 6 per cent, of 290 normal subjects under the age of eighty had none. The hairs were somewhat fewer and shorter in women than in men in most cases.