Means against bruises

The remedy for bruises is the first thing that a person who has been slightly traumatized is looking for. Modern pharmacology has saturated the market so tightly that it is sometimes difficult to determine the choice of a suitable remedy. In order to choose a remedy for bruises, it is necessary to know what it should treat.

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How to choose the best remedy for bruises?

A bruise is a minor or moderate severity of the injury, accompanied by swelling, bruising, or bruising. In general, shallow layers of soft tissue, subcutaneous tissue and small blood vessels are damaged. Bones, internal organs and the skull are less likely to be injured. These injuries require not so much a means as an immediate call to a doctor. 

• The first thing you want to do with a bruise is to remove the pain symptom and swelling. For these purposes, an ordinary cold that will slow the onset of hemorrhage under the skin, localize it and partially switch sensitive receptors towards protection against cold will do. Cold can be a compress, ice, just a cold thing. All these funds must be changed during the first day as they warm up, so that the cold lotions do not turn into heat. 
• The second thing that should be used is ointments, gels with anesthetic action. In pharmacies are sold funds for external use with analgin, lidocaine. These ointments should also be applied during the first 24 hours. If the injury is really a bruise, and not something more serious, the pain gradually subsides. 
• Effective and appropriate will be the application of external agents containing anti-inflammatory components. This ointment with diclofenac, ibuprofen. 
• The need to quickly get rid of bruises or bruising dictates the use of resorptive drugs. All that contains heparin, helps to improve blood microcirculation and reduce swelling. Also effective are ointments based on horse chestnut, water and extract leeches. Excellent ointments and gels - Troxevasinum, Heparin, Venoton have perfectly proved. 
• A dissociative action that removes inflammation and reduces edema is dimexide. It helps well if injured elbow, knee, ankle joint. Dimexide should be diluted in the proportion indicated in the instructions and applied to the site of the bruise in the form of a compress. 
• On the second and third day, the bruise can be exposed to heat. It is appropriate ointments with irritating, warming components based on bee or snake venom. They penetrate well through the epidermis, activate blood circulation and improve the trophism of the subcutaneous tissues. This Efkamon, Finalgon, Apizatron and other ointments. 
• If the injury is more serious and accompanied by severe pain, the remedy for the injury can become a remedy that improves the general condition. In this case, the reception of tableted forms of NSAIDs is indicated - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics. 

Phytotherapy as a means of treating contusions is also effective, but either during the healing period or with the lightest bruises. Ordinary cabbage leaf, due to the content of vitamin C, rutin and vitamin K, relieves mild pain, swelling, and even some types of inflammation. Leaves should be changed from time to time to fresher.

The course of "cabbage" therapy is unlimited. A good result is the application of juice or leaves of the colanchoe, a plant famous for its regenerative and wound-healing properties. Kolanchoe can be applied under the compress and leave for 10-12 hours. Juice colanchoe can be rubbed into the damaged area until completely absorbed.

The remedy for bruises can be found without any problems, in the pharmacy, on the windowsill in a flowerpot, in a vegetable store, but it's better if a gel or ointment with an anesthetic, blister of diclofenac or orthophene, a dimexid bottle and a bubble with banal hydrogen peroxide . The bruises lie in wait for us everywhere, and in the street, and at work, and at home, so home pharmacy stocks will help you cope with them and provide yourself first aid.