The main thing is to do everything on time.
What are bruises
Bruise – one of the types of hematomas. But if the hematoma as a whole is an internal hemorrhage that occurs due to damage to blood vessels and can be quite extensive and serious, then bruises are relatively harmless damage to the smallest subcutaneous vessels-capillaries.
With a bruise, the capillaries break, burst and blood flows from them. The more it leaks, the greater the size of the bruise.
How quickly bruises pass
On average, to get rid of the bruise, our body needs from two to three weeks. All this time spilled blood is absorbed by the surrounding tissues.
At the same time, the more blood was under the skin, the more time the body will take to resolve the hematoma. Fortunately, the process can be accelerated.
But for this it is important to know at what stage the healing is the bruise.
What will help two days after the bruise, it is categorically cannot be done in the first.
How to remove the bruise if less than a day has passed after the bruise
The bruise has not yet been completely formed. The place of the bruise was slightly swollen and became red-pink. Color persists from several hours to a day.
The main task at this time is to prevent a bruise from growing up.
1. Rest!
Try to limit movements, especially those in which the affected area of the body is involved. The more movement, the stronger the blood flow and the vast more pouring hematoma.
2. Make a cold compress
Immediately after the bruise! The faster, the less bruise will be. Under the influence of cold, the blood flow slows down, which means that it will flow out less into the subcutaneous tissue. In addition, the cold compress reduces the pain.
As a compress, you can use a package with ice or, for example, frozen vegetables. Wrap it in a thin fabric or towel and attach it to the injured place for 10 minutes. The procedure can be repeated after a 20-minute break.
On the first day, in no case should you warm up the place of bruise or even more so massage it. This will increase the blood flow, and the bruise will grow.
3. Apply a pharmacy cream or gel from bruises without a warming effect
Such drugs have an anti -reinforced and anti -inflammatory effect. Look in the list of active substances diplogoxide, heparin and dexpanthenol.
4. Try to keep a bruised place above the level of the heart
Naturally, if possible. For example, if the leg is injured, lay on the sofa, and place your feet on a roller or armrest. Gravity will force blood to cast from the place of bruises, which means that the size of the bruise will be smaller.
5. If the pain is strong, take anesthetic
But not aspirin or ibuprofen. They dilute blood and can lead to an increase in the size of the hematoma.
How to remove a bruise if more than a day has passed after a bruise
As a rule, after 24 hours the bruise has already formed. Blood at the place of bruises darkened and shines through the skin with blue, purple or (if several days have passed since the injury) with a greenish tint.
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The bruise has not yet been completely formed. The place of the bruise was slightly swollen and became red-pink. Color persists from several hours to a day.
The main task at this time is to prevent a bruise from growing up.
1. Rest!
Try to limit movements, especially those in which the affected area of the body is involved. The more movement, the stronger the blood flow and the vast more pouring hematoma.
2. Make a cold compress
Immediately after the bruise! The faster, the less bruise will be. Under the influence of cold, the blood flow slows down, which means that it will flow out less into the subcutaneous tissue. In addition, the cold compress reduces the pain.
As a compress, you can use a package with ice or, for example, frozen vegetables. Wrap it in a thin fabric or towel and attach it to the injured place for 10 minutes. The procedure can be repeated after a 20-minute break.
On the first day, in no case should you warm up the place of bruise or even more so massage it. This will increase the blood flow, and the bruise will grow.
3. Apply a pharmacy cream or gel from bruises without a warming effect
Such drugs have an anti -reinforced and anti -inflammatory effect. Look in the list of active substances diplogoxide, heparin and dexpanthenol.
4. Try to keep a bruised place above the level of the heart
Naturally, if possible. For example, if the leg is injured, lay on the sofa, and place your feet on a roller or armrest. Gravity will force blood to cast from the place of bruises, which means that the size of the bruise will be smaller.
5. If the pain is strong, take anesthetic
But not aspirin or ibuprofen. They dilute blood and can lead to an increase in the size of the hematoma.
How to remove a bruise if more than a day has passed after a bruise
As a rule, after 24 hours the bruise has already formed. Blood at the place of bruises darkened and shines through the skin with blue, purple or (if several days have passed since the injury) with a greenish tint.
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The bruise begins to heal, spilled blood loses oxygen and darkens. It takes up to 5 days.
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Such bruises are about the sixth day. This is a sign of the final destruction of hemoglobin.
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So the hematoma looks somewhere a week after the injury. The bruise will not change anymore, except that it will slowly light.
Now the main task is to speed up the resorption of the hematoma. The easiest way to achieve this is using heat.
1. Warm up
Warm compresses have proven themselves well (you can apply a heating pad or fabric moistened with warm water), massages, as well as creams with a warming effect – containing a baddyag, capsaicin (alkaloid pepper) and bee and snake poisons.
To speed up recovery, you can go to a hot bathhouse. Unless, of course, you have no contraindications for this.
2. If it still hurts, take anesthetic with an anti -reinforced effect
For example, Aspirin and Ibuprofen (now it is already possible). They are shown if the bruise looks swollen. Of course, strictly follow the instructions for frequency and dosage!
3. Use creams or compresses with plant extracts and vitamins
- Archnik’s ointment or gel reduces edema and accelerates regeneration.
- Vitamin K cream improves blood coagulation and helps to restore damaged capillaries and blood vessels.
- Aloe gel reduces pain and reduces inflammation. Gels with the highest (up to 99%) content of pure aloe juice work best.
- Vitamin C cream has anti -inflammatory properties and improves wound healing.
- Pineapple extract, due to the vegetation enzyme Bromelaine, which contained in this fruit, have an anti -inflammatory effect and accelerate the disappearance of bruises. To treat himself with pineapple either does not hurt.
For recovery, it is not necessary to use pharmacy. For example, a compress of finely chopped onions (chopped, wrapped in gauze, slightly pressed so that the onion would let the juice, put it to a bruised place) will also have a positive effect due to the content of vitamin C.
4. Cample
A few days after the bruise, when the color glow, the bruise can be hidden with tonal cream. Choose a remedy with a yellowish subm1.
When you need to show the bruise to the doctor
Bruises do not always pass on their own. In addition, sometimes they can be symptoms of not the most pleasant diseases. Be sure and if possible, consult a therapist if a bruise:
- Does not disappear, although more than two weeks have passed since the bruise.
- It seems firm to the touch.
- Begins to increase in size and/or becomes more painful.
- Adds soreness to the movements of the joint, next to which it is located.
- Located next to the eye and, it seems to you, worsens vision.
- It seemed to appear for no reason. And not only that: you regularly notice on the skin more and more bruises of the origin not quite understandable to you.
- It begins to demonstrate signs of infection: there are any discharge from the skin in the damaged area, the temperature rises.
All this may indicate that hemorrhage is much deeper and more extensive than it seemed to you, and for some reason the body tissues cannot cope with so much blood. In this case, to get rid of the hematoma, the help of a doctor will be required.
Diseases of internal organs and physiological brittle blood vessels are also not excluded. These situations also require the attention of a specialist.