Why do our fingers & toes get wrinkly in water?

Why do our fingers and toes get wrinkly and pruney in the bath, or in water? This video explores some of the concepts surrounding this phenomenon.

For our skin to begin wrinkling, the skin reduces the size of nearby blood vessels. the layered structure of the skin and the extra space available due to the smaller blood vessels, an influx of water moves into the area. The top layers are able to swell, while the lower layers stay intact and the skin bulges out into a wrinkly appearance. There are some interesting insights into how this works, and some of the hypotheses behind WHY this occurs.

#wrinkly #biology #skin

[youngyoung]

Very educational and informative!! This is a great summary of why fingers and toes wrinkle! I always wondered!!

[adria.npppp]

can you help if howto get rid of wrinkly lines on front of hand and fingers

[Nynsai_altfun_]

my hands skin is getting very puffed up only after 15second water contact, could i be facing any disease?

[bigjak]

Sophie needs a good night to help her feel better about herself . Stop focusing on me

[Onlyidara]

Please are there any chemicals that can be incorporated in soaps or exfoliants that good stimulate wrinkling of skin?

[GrandeHombreYT]

Anybody else have wrinkles in the fingers

[mariahfrancois]

When I was lil I thought humans should come with a warning ⚠ tag don't stay wet to long might wrinkle lol

[lurice]

I think the skin there lets moisture go deeper so when you get in some healing waters the water can soak deeper and our hands and feet are always being beat up

[milkycolaaa]

I saw a meme video and I feel so dumb. The MEME video taught me something loll. its possibly so you can have grip underwater

[shilpishilpi]

Mere garmi m bhi 5 mint m ungliyon shukad ti h esa kyu

[MizzouRah]

To suggest that we wrinkle to attain better grip seems like a rather ignorant hypothesis. There would be no logical evolutionary or biological sense to this. We were never even remotely meant to be aquatic. Not in the slightest. An adaptation of water to this degree would probably take humans tens of thousands of years (if not more) to achieve. The fact that we might have better grip whilst in this state may be a coincidental byproduct, but is presumptuous to assume it happens FOR that reason.

[OfoeNelson]

So more wrinkles means a healthier nervous system? Interesting

[tmntepisodestiktokchannel]

When we get rinkaly soon are skin can come off. Like dead boys that start to happen. And if their water left on are skin it can hirt. That's why we dry in between are tows 🦶 or else it will blood and be super painful

[FactsTrail]

wow, even i have created same content in Hindi

[sumitdimri]

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[bigjak]

Its like ure losing sleep over me .infact u are sophie