While everything is in order, we control our hands, we breathe air, not concentrating on them, but here is a sudden drop, and that's it, we have to change the whole rhythm of our usual life.
Poor ecology, malnutrition, and leaching of calcium with newfangled drinks contribute to frequent fractures, cracks, and poorly healing bruises.
Falling, and it can be anywhere, at any time, on a slippery staircase, wet asphalt, tripping over a rough road, with a sharp braking of public transport, we automatically put forward our hands to protect ourselves from injury.
The main blow when falling falls precisely on the hands, on the bend, on the fingers.
Having received a severe bruise of the hand, we don’t even know what to do to get rid of the pain, but first you need to determine the type of injury.
Hand bruise: symptoms, diagnostic methods
Having fallen and feeling severe pain, we automatically predict a fracture and panic scroll through its effects. From pain, a person can lose consciousness, therefore, first of all, you should bring him into yourself. It is very important at the first moments to determine the degree of damage to the hand, although the symptoms will be the same for a fracture, dislocation, and bruise. If the pain subsides, and there are no visible manifestations, then you can do with home remedies.
Hand injury is accompanied by:
• severe pain;
• the formation of edema;
• the appearance of a hematoma.
Attention! In no case, when falling, you can not pull the hand, because often there are "smart people" who are ready to "straighten" the hand, pulling it hard.
If possible, you should immediately give first aid for bruises and go to the doctor if the pain intensifies.
The presence of a hematoma is not necessarily associated with damage to the bone, it is a trauma to the saphenous vessels, and bleeding can stop after a quarter of an hour, and can last a day if you do not organize an ambulance in the first hours.
Radiography will help establish the type of injury with 100% certainty in the correct diagnosis.
A slight swelling with rapidly passing pain, unaccompanied by the formation of a hematoma or, as people say, a bruise, is characteristic of a small bruise, which can be dealt with at home.
Severe injury can cause loss of function of movement, provoke a violation in the nutrition of the tissue, which will cause slow recovery.
If you have not identified these symptoms, then most likely you have a dislocation or sprain.
Hand bruise - what to do: ambulance
The wrist is the most vulnerable part. In case of a bruise, if you don’t apply cold for a quarter of an hour, then you will have to treat the hematoma for a long time and remove the edema.
As a cold, there can be anything that comes to hand. Run into the store, pharmacy, cafe, ask for ice or buy cabbage and tear off the leaf, tie it to the place of injury, in case of emergency, use ice cream.
If you are at home, pack a few pieces of ice in a bag and attach to the site of the injury. You can hold a cold compress for 15-20 minutes, then wash the place of the bruise with cold water, carefully dry it and you can draw an iodide mesh at the site of the edema and apply a bandage.
Cold will help reduce hemorrhage in the subcutaneous tissue, which will reduce inflammation and swelling. Pain will become much less noticeable after applying cold.
To reduce hemorrhage, the arm should be held upright.
If after an hour the pain in the hand does not go away, which may be the result of a fracture, you should go to the doctor.
The pain subsided, but the swelling and hematoma remained, the doctor confirmed the bruise, now you can start treatment at home.
Hand bruise - what to do after applying cold? Apply painkillers and compresses.
A day after the injury, you can begin thermal procedures that will accelerate the process of resorption of the bruise, and contribute to tissue repair.
If the aching pain remains and does not allow you to forget about the injury, you can take painkillers.
Hand bruise - treatment: medications and devices
For acute pain and to relieve edema, reduce hematoma, pharmacy preparations can be used, which include:
• diclofenac sodium;
• ibuprofen;
• ketotifen.
Any of the analgesic ointments should be applied according to the instructions at least three times a day, however, if there is a wound or abrasion at the site of a bruise, the use of ointments and gels is prohibited.
"Diclofenac-gel" will cope not only with inflammation, but will also work as a disinfectant. This gel can be replaced by ointments such as heparin ointment, Lyoton, Venolife.
If there is a large hematoma, the best remedy is the “Badyaga”, it is applied in several layers, each gently rubbed into the bruise, after which a bandage is applied to the arm.
Pain when applying ointments does not go away, you need to take tablets containing the above components. If the home medicine cabinet has analgin or baralgin, then they can also be used to relieve pain, but the duration of the analgesic effect of these drugs is short-lived.
- A day after the appearance of a bruise of the brush, the place of impact can be lubricated with camphor oil, which is a good warming agent that can be bought at any pharmacy.
- Alcohol tincture of flowers of rosemary will serve as a good warming grinding, which we will apply twice a day.
Hand bruise - treatment: folk remedies
Having the confidence that as a result of the injury, a bruise of the hand, and not a fracture or dislocation, you can use the traditional medicine to speed up the recovery process. Self-prepared compresses, gels, ointments should be used regularly, several times a day.
- The body-grub has long been famous for its qualities to quickly eliminate bruises and, if right after the injury, to make pulp from the powder of body-gum, you can buy it in a pharmacy, and put water on the site of the bruise, then you can do without a hematoma. The main thing is to do it as quickly as possible. Cover the ointment with gauze or a natural cloth and leave for several hours.
- Cools and relieves swelling of raw potatoes, circles of which you can cover the place of the bruise of the brush, bandage and leave it overnight.
- Within a few days, immediately after the injury, you can make a compress of such components that must be mixed in a ratio of 1: 1: 1:
• vinegar;
• water;
• vegetable oil.
The mixture should be cold on the first day, warm on the following days. Wet a piece of natural fabric in the mixture and wrap the damaged brush with it, so do it 3 times a day.
- Onions, honey, plantain, each has its own unique properties, it is a 3 in 1 miracle ointment, absorbable, decongestant, and disinfecting.
Mix onion and plantain in approximately equal proportions into the gruel, add a little honey, beat thoroughly and apply three times to the site of the bruise.
- The church ointment is amazing with its healing qualities, for the preparation of which we will need:
• 200 ml of turpentine and lamp oil:
• 300 g of camphor powder and ammonia;
• ¼ part of laundry soap.
Ammonia is mixed with laundry soap to the state of slurry, pour camphor powder into it, mix again, and then pour turpentine and icon oil. Gently rub into the injured brush, apply a bandage.
- It has long been noticed that chlorophyll, which is part of any green plant, has an excellent anti-inflammatory effect, it is not without reason that it is called a natural antibiotic.
We take a large amount of any grass, mash it until the juice appears, with which we lubricate the affected brush with several layers.
- Mix finely crushed flax seeds with any vegetable oil in a 1: 4 ratio, prepare the pulp, apply it to the bruised brush, cover with a film, you can take a piece of a plastic bag, hold for 1 hour and rinse.
- Instead of hot compresses, you can make a hot bath of Epsom salt, sea salt is also suitable. Dissolve 200 g of salt in 5 - 6 l of water and hold the hand in the solution for 30 - 40 minutes, constantly adding hot water.
- Since ancient times, boiled beans were used as a means of saving from bruising, which was ground to a state of porridge and applied to a wounded place for half an hour three times a day.
- Talmuds have been written about the healing qualities of honey and aloe, we use these components to prepare a healing ointment, mixing aloe vera gruel and honey in a 1: 1 ratio, which relieves pain and inflammation.
- We buy Arnica grass in a pharmacy, grind it to a powder, take 50 g and pour vodka in a half-liter jar. This remedy should be prepared in advance, because it must be insisted for a week in a dark place.
From arnica tincture we make lotions that help relieve pain and reduce swelling.
- The root of the hemoptysis completely corresponds to its name, lotions from it stop internal hemorrhage, reduce swelling, and relieve pain. A small amount of crushed root should be tied in gauze, boil for several minutes in boiling water, cool and tie to the site of injury.
- The golden mustache not so long ago became known as a remedy, tinctures are prepared from it, which they drink, ointments are used for rubbing and compresses. Mix 10 ml of golden mustache juice with 100 ml of vodka and get a healing compress, which we apply three times a day.
Hand bruise - what to do: step-by-step instructions
1.Apply ice for no more than a third of an hour.
2. Wash off the compress with cold.
3. If there are abrasions, we process them with hydrogen peroxide, apply an anesthetic ointment.
4. Fix the brush with a gauze bandage.
5. In case of persistent pain, severe swelling, consult a doctor to establish a diagnosis.
6.With persistent pain, we take painkillers.
7.After a day, we begin to make thermal compresses.
8. We pass to treatment by medical means or alternative methods.
9. We develop a hand with gentle exercises.
Take care of your hands, be careful at any time of the year.
