A remedy for bruises

A remedy for bruises is the first thing a person who has received a minor injury looks for. Modern pharmacology has saturated the market so densely that sometimes it is difficult to decide on the choice of a suitable remedy. In order to choose a remedy for bruises, you need 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 injury accompanied by swelling, bruising or hematoma. Mostly, the shallow layers of soft tissue, subcutaneous tissue and small blood vessels are damaged. Less often, bones, internal organs and the skull are injured. These injuries require not so much a remedy as an immediate visit to a doctor.

• The first thing you want to do when you have a bruise is to relieve the pain and swelling. For these purposes, ordinary cold will do, which will slow down the bleeding that has begun under the skin, localize it and partially switch the sensitive receptors towards protection from the cold. Cold can be a compress, ice, or just a cold object. All these means must be changed during the first day as they warm up, so that cold compresses do not turn into heat ones.
• The second thing to use is ointments and gels with anesthetic action. Pharmacies sell topical products with analgin and 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 will gradually subside.
• It will be effective and appropriate to apply external agents containing anti-inflammatory components. These are ointments with diclofenac, ibuprofen.
• The need to quickly get rid of bruises or hematomas dictates the use of absorbable drugs. Everything that contains heparin helps improve blood microcirculation and reduce swelling. Ointments based on horse chestnut, bodyagi and leech extract are also effective. Ointments and gels - Troxevasin, Heparin, Venoton have proven themselves well.
• Dimexide has a resolving effect, relieves inflammation and reduces swelling. It helps well if the elbow, knee, ankle joint is injured. Dimexide should be diluted in the proportion specified in the instructions and applied to the site of the injury as a compress.
• On the second and third day, the bruise can be exposed to heat. Ointments with irritating, warming components based on bee or snake venom are appropriate here. They penetrate the epidermis well, activate blood circulation and improve the trophism of subcutaneous tissues. These are Efkamon, Finalgon, Apizatron and other ointments.
• If the injury is more serious and accompanied by severe pain, a remedy for a bruise can become a means of improving the general condition. In this case, taking tablet forms of NSAIDs - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, analgesics is indicated.

Phytotherapy as a treatment for bruises is also effective, but either during the healing period or for the mildest bruises. A common cabbage leaf, due to its vitamin C, rutin and vitamin K content, relieves mild pain, swelling and even some types of inflammation. Leaves should be changed from time to time for fresher ones.

The course of "cabbage" therapy is unlimited. Good results are achieved by using the juice or leaves of Kalanchoe, a plant famous for its regenerative and wound-healing properties. Kalanchoe can be applied under a compress and left for 10-12 hours. Kalanchoe juice can be rubbed into the damaged area until completely absorbed.

A remedy for bruises can be found without any problems, in a drugstore, on a windowsill in a flowerpot, in a vegetable store, but it is better if your home medicine cabinet contains a gel or ointment with an anesthetic, a blister of diclofenac or orthofen, a bottle of dimexide and a bottle of banal hydrogen peroxide. Bruises lie in wait for us everywhere, on the street, at work, and at home, so home medicine cabinet supplies will help you cope with them and provide yourself with first aid.