Watching Everest documentaries, why is amputation the only cure for severe frost bite?

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I would think the body would heal when it gets warm or medical technology is advanced enough to allow some healing.

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Frostbitten tissue is dead, irrevocably dead. Dead tissue starts leaking the products of decomposition, which are toxic. Have to cut it off 

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