Why do your fingers & toes get wrinkley but not the rest of your body when in water?
465080
well if you stayed in the water long enough your entire skin would 'prune' the reason your toes and fingers wrinkle is that the overall volume there is low and surface area is relatively high and so water absorbtion is high.
451673
Some people think it's because the skin expands to allow extra water inside. The expanded skin ends up looking really wrinkly. Other people think that it's because the skin is tied down to the tissue underneath in certain places. So when the skin is full of water, it swells up (gets puffy), but only in places where it is not tied down, which makes it look wrinkly.
1049898
YES!! Skin is porous, and does absorb water, especially if the body is parched. It does not, however, transmit the water to your digestive system. So, it has nothing to do with making you 'go', that is just your normal digestive system, sometimes it takes many hours (especially if you are dehydrated) for liquids to clear your system.
898062
You may have been chilly.\nOr, after being in the water where your limbs were floating & supported by the water, they may have temporarily grown acclimated to being held up. So, when you got out of the tub, they suddenly had to support your frame again, & they were trembling as they adjusted back to this.
566889
I get this after swimming. I find shaking my head in a fast swooping movement sideways and downwards on the side with water in works. I usually twist my head slightly torwards my opposite shoulder as I reach the bottom. This can take from one to a number of attempts to get it out depending how far in it goes.Sometimes I find too if I tip my head sideways (again on the side with water in) and push the palm of my hand up and down fully across my ear this can sometimes suction it out!  \n\nWhether either of these are medically acceptable I have no idea but after over 25 years as a swimmer it works for me.  Just don't get me locked up for behaing madly!!!
632551
If you have liquid retention in your ankles, legs or arms, then compression bandaging could be one way to reduce this problem (ie using bandages to wrap your problem area using a certain amount of pressure, hence forcing the water elsewhere and to be slowly absorced)\n\nKeepin the certain part elevated slightly above the body can also help.\n\nLastly, massaging the area can help the body absorb the water.
959960
You have more stimulation in your fingers than your toes.\n\nYou are constantly bending or moving your fingers. This stimulates them and makes your nails grow faster.\n\nYes you do walk on your toes but you are not constantly moving them to create as much stimulation.
828852
Are you asking what the effect of putting your hand in lukewarm water will be?  Your hand will most likely get wet, in fact, it may even get pruny.  I suggest that you see a neurosurgeon as soon as possible.
909892
Your hands and the bottoms of your feet are more "water permeable" than the rest of your body because they have more sweat glands in them but no oil glands.  So when you expose them to water, and even more so with hot water, for extended periods, the water will begin to go back in just as it is able to come out. When the skin soaks up enough water, which sometimes isn't very much, it begins to expand and prune.\nWeather along with humidity and also one's age has a lot to do with how quickly the skin becomes waterlogged.
342866
Because the water conucts the heat away from your body very well and thus lowers your body temperature
397516
The humidity/heat make breathing difficult, but also if you are on city water, alot of chemicals are added to kill bacteria and diseases in the water-these chemicals tend to cling to moisture like vapour particles which you then breathe in.  Maybe it was all a bit much for you- or you are developing a sensitivity-we are bombarded with toxins in the air 24/7.  Mention it next time you are at the doctors, go to the hospital if it happens and doesn't subside.
743702
I've thought about that question myself not so long ago so I did a little research. From what I found out there is an oil on our skin called sebum which is responsible for waterproofing our skin. When our bodies, specifically our phlangies (fingers and toes) are in water for too long the sebum is washed away and our skin starts to absorb the water. When our skin starts to absorb water the deep tissue in our palms and heels begins to swell but the tougher skin in that area withstands the swelling of the tissue and remains taunt but the skin of the fingers and toes which is not so firmly attached to the deep tissue wrinkles.
474070
try changing your soap or towel.  I doubt it is the water because then your hand would itch after washing your hand or doing anything in tap water.  IF the itching stops or continues with one gone or the other gone, you know you have you culprit
516732
Well, the temperature doesn't matter. What does matter is the concentration of the water outside of you. It's osmosis/diffusion. You have water in your body and there's water outside of you; but the water outside gonna have a higher concentration that the water inside of you. This is when you take into consideration that the water outside of you  will include dirt(some salts) and other chemicals like from your soap or shampoo, which is why it's concentration is higher. The whole process of your fingers shriveling-up is because the water inside of you leaves your body in attempt to balance the concentration outside to equal yours.
506719
I had a friend whos hands would litterally drip sweat. I must admit that there was something kind of kinky about it, when it came to holding hands with her.  But they were truely soaking, dripping wet, and she was pretty open about the fact that it was an embarassment, as well as an inconvience for her.  Her feet had the same problem too, and all her leather shoes were stained as well.\n\n  This did not seem to be related to stress, as she was a pretty self-confident person, but there may have been an ellement of neveriousness involved that she just did not tell me about.\n\n   The point being.....it really is a condition that other people get.\n\n  In her case, she was able to take a medication that kept it under control, and as far as I know, did not have to undego any kind of invasive opperation.\n\n   Check with your family Doctor, or a skin Doctor.\n\n   They are likely to know just what it is.\n\n     Bob J.
1157705
Your skin gets water logged...too much water and it starts to swell and bloat and wrinkle. Can you imagine what a drowning victim looks like?  Ewwwwww
163212
you might have water on the knee, the pressur from the water could keep you from fully extending and bending your leg and the knee joint!