Injury of the finger

A bruise is a mechanical damage to closed organs and tissues as a result of a short-term exposure to the surface of the body of any obtuse object. At the same time, skin lesions are invisible. A bruise can also occur during a fall.

Symptoms of a bruise, in the first place, are painful sensations, swelling, bruising, a breakdown of the functions of the bruised organ. When striking a tangent, a significant delamination of the skin can occur. The bruise of such important organs as the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs very often lead to severe consequences for the whole organism and even to death.

A bruising of the finger on the arm is also accompanied by all the listed symptoms (pain, bruising, swelling, restriction of mobility). Before starting treatment, it is necessary to find out exactly whether this is a bruise or a fracture. Signs of a fracture are severe and very severe pain, abnormal mobility, a violation of its form, restriction of functions. The usual bruise of the finger is characterized by swelling and pain. When the nail plate strikes inside, a hematoma appears, in which the nail changes its color.

A strong bruise of the finger is treated, first of all, by cold. To do this, put your finger under a stream of cold water as quickly as possible. In another case, a wound dressing is applied to the injured finger, and the bruised place is placed in a container filled with ice. Cold significantly reduces pain, while bruising resolves much faster. It is necessary to create rest for the damaged finger, apply a pressure bandage and put your hand so that to stop further bleeding into the area of damaged soft tissues (raise the affected limb).

The bruise of the finger is treated and the method of treatment of the nail with iodine, because through microcracks formed during the impact, infection can occur and infection occur. Timely antiseptic measures prevent infection and cure the nail itself. At the site of the injury, iodine mesh should be applied, which will help to avoid swelling.

To cure a bruise of a finger it is possible and with application of national methods. One of the best tools is boiled potatoes. The gauze is applied to the place of the bruise, which is moistened with mashed potatoes from the potatoes welded together with the peel. Such a compress helps to quickly resolve the bruise and reduce pain. In potato gruel for greater effect, you can add honey or baking soda.

When there is no time for boiling potatoes, conventional potato peelings can be used. After cleaning the raw potatoes, any bruising from the clean inner side is applied to the bruised finger. This compress should last for three hours, if necessary, then replace it.

When there was a bruise of the finger of the hand, the treatment can be performed using other recipes of traditional medicine. Damaged wormwood or leaves of plantain are applied to the damaged site. When dried, these herbs are changed or moistened with water. In the same way, the bodywoman, diluted in water at the rate of two tablespoons of bodyguard in the form of a powder per one tablespoon of water, is used in the same way.

As a consequence of a bruise, a rupture of blood vessels and a small bruise are very common. When you feel the injured place, there is pain, the finger swells. In such cases, the use of various lotions and compresses with the use of medicinal herbs, insisted on alcohol, is allowed. After a cold, applied in the form of first aid, it is possible to start using warming compresses from alcohol tinctures in a day as a decongestant, anti-inflammatory and analgesic.

For compresses, only dilute alcohol, not causing skin burns, is used.