A bruise is a damage to the soft tissues of the body, while the upper layer of the skin suffers slightly. However, such a trauma leads to ruptures of small blood vessels, which leads to the formation of bruises on the site of the injury. We will not consider serious cases of bruising, when without specialized help doctors can not do, but we will only talk about injuries received in everyday life, which anyone can handle without resorting to medical assistance.
Symptoms of bruises. To begin with, it is necessary to determine: a common injury in a person or a fracture. The person, having received a bruise, experiences pain. On the site of impact there is swelling, there is a bruise. The symptomatology depends, of course, on the impact force. Bruising children and young people themselves can "tell" about the strength of the bruise and the size of the trauma of the body, and in the elderly it is much more difficult to determine this because of a slightly different course of subcutaneous processes. Before treating bruises, it is necessary to determine its prescription, on which the method of healing depends.
First aid with bruises. Immediately after the injury, it is necessary to immediately attach a cold object to the bruised place. It can be a compress, a cold warmer, and ice. If the bruise has fallen on one of the extremities - an arm or a leg - it is advisable to apply a tight bandage. Cold pack or compress should be changed depending on their warming and again applied, but already colder. This method can remove puffiness, localize the bruise, do not allow the hematoma to expand. The main function of this method is anesthetic.
Two or three days later, a warming pad or warm compress should be applied to the injury site. You can also make an appointment for UHF and take a warm bath. These actions will help accelerate the process of resorption of the hematoma, which should soon disappear completely.
After a while after the remission of pain, a massage session can be performed, especially in cases of bruising of the hands or feet, when the mobility of the joints is limited. The sessions of massage or self-massage can help to avoid serious consequences of trauma and contribute to the restoration of motor functions.
Pharmaceutical preparations with bruises. Treatment of bruises can be carried out by applying externally gels or ointments (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs - NSAIDs). They must be applied, according to the instructions, to the injured place. The composition of such drugs should include ketoprofen, ibuprofen, diclofenac sodium or their analogs. They are recommended to smear the injured place 4 times during the day, and it is necessary to capture the entire bruised area. Often with bruises, there are abrasions or open wounds, and then anti-inflammatory ointments are not recommended for the bruised area. If the bruised area is extensive, then it is necessary to apply a large amount of ointment due to puffiness, which hinders the penetration of drugs inside. If the bruise is small, then it is possible to do with minimal amounts of drugs. For serious injuries, NSAIDs should be applied to the injured area more often, but this is at the discretion of the victim.
If there are severe pain, you should take anti-inflammatory drugs and analgesics inside. It is appropriate to drink pills naproxen, diclofenac potassium, ketoprofen, ibuprofen. If the pain does not go away for a long time, it is necessary to consult a doctor and stop self-treatment, because bruises with wrong treatment can lead to serious complications.
Treatment with traditional medicine. With a bruise, you can prepare a linen patch. A clean cloth made of natural flax should be worn to a fine powder, which is then mixed with sunflower oil in the proportion of 1 to 4. This mixture should be applied to the bruised area and covered with a film. After a while, for example, an hour, you need to wash everything off and wipe it dry. Such a plaster, if necessary, can be removed and a little earlier.
An excellent remedy for bruises is the fat of the viper, which can be gently rubbed into the damaged area. This tool will provide both anesthetic and therapeutic effects.
With bruises can take a decoction of flowers of arnica, it can be used to make compresses. This remedy has a wonderful property to relieve inflammation and pain, to reduce the area of bruise. The infusion is prepared according to the following recipe: Arnica flowers (1 teaspoon) are filled with a glass of non-tight boiling water, insist in a container with a lid about 2 hours, then filter. It should be eaten preferably three times before meals. The same recipe can be used to make the infusion from arnica roots, which in its actions is no worse.
The bruised place can be ground with camphor. Camphor alcohol, as is known, has the ability to warm and extinguish inflammatory processes.
Another excellent remedy against bruises is the bodyworm, which prevents the appearance of bruising. But it must be used immediately after the injury. At the same time in 2 tablespoons chopped water spoon you need to pour 4 tablespoons of water, stir everything and put the mixture on the injured area. From it you can make and compress.
To make the bruises disappear quickly, it is recommended that you still make baths from a solution of high-concentration English salt. A bucket of water pours about four hundred grams of salt. All is stirred until the salt grains dissolve. From the resulting solution, you can make a bath on the bruised place or lower the injured limb directly into the bucket for about an hour.
Strong bruises are treated with alcohol tincture or decoction from the flowers of Ledum, which rubs bruises a couple of times a day.
Cabbage leaves can also be applied to the bruised place, fixing with a bandage, standing on the wound for up to an hour. Then replace the sheet.
Beans and potatoes are good folk remedies for bruises. You need to cook the beans, stretch it and apply a slurry on the bruise for half an hour several times a day. Raw potatoes also perfectly remove swelling and inflammation. They are washed, cut or rubbed and applied to the focus of inflammation.
The best soothing and anti-inflammatory means are natural honey. It is mixed with the wiped leaves of aloe. This mixture perfectly removes inflammation and extinguishes pain.