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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Depends on how bad the damage is. If parts of the body are actually *dead*, they are not coming back to life. Death is permanent. In fact they will begin to rot and release that rotten material into the rest of your body causing all sorts of health problems as it moves through your body.

The best course of action is to chop off the dead material and throw it away so that can’t happen. It sucks, but that’s how it is.

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