Westfield Health Bulletin: avoid frostbite nipping at your nose this winter

Westfield Health Bulletin: avoid frostbite nipping at your nose this winter

“Jack Frost nipping at your nose ... folks dressed up like Eskimos.” These lyrics to an old Nat King Cole song are highly relevant to New England weather. Mythical Jack Frost, winter’s cold on your skin causing a sharp, cold, stinging bite on your face, brings cold, frost and snow. The famous Christmas song delivers a message to bundle up. And that message should be heeded. Frostbite is no sentimental yuletide carol. Frostbite occurs when tissue…