How to quickly reduce inflammation and swelling

In life, we often encounter redness and swelling of the skin or inflammation in the body. For some more serious inflammations, we need to go to the hospital for treatment. However, for some common redness, swelling or inflammation, we can eliminate them through some methods. So, how to quickly reduce inflammation and swelling? Today we recommend several methods to reduce swelling.

1. Reduce activity

Regardless of the cause of the limb injury and swelling, you should try to rest as much as possible during this period, and it is best to reduce activity on the injured part. During the recovery period, you should try to avoid weight bearing and raise the affected limb. This can promote venous return and effectively improve local blood circulation, thereby reducing edema. But be sure to note that if you have just been injured, you should try to avoid rubbing or massaging to prevent the redness and swelling from becoming more obvious.

At the same time, patients should also pay attention to their daily diet after being injured. They should try to eat less irritating foods and hair-raising foods, as these foods may cause the symptoms of redness and swelling to become more obvious.

2. Cold compress

In order to better reduce swelling and relieve pain, many people often use hot compresses, thinking that this can promote blood circulation. However, this practice is very wrong. Hot compress will only cause the pain and swelling of the injured area to increase. Therefore, it is best to use cold compress for patients who have just been injured. Local cold compress can promote vasoconstriction, thereby effectively reducing bleeding, and timely cold compress can also reduce the stimulation and compression of metabolic products on nerve endings.

Therefore, cold compress has a good effect in reducing swelling and relieving pain. Ice compress can be applied for fifteen minutes every two hours until the swelling is relieved. At the same time, patients should pay attention to keeping the affected area clean as much as possible after injury to avoid bacterial infection and inflammation.

3. Inflammation

24 hours after the injury, if there is no bleeding or other symptoms, hot compresses can be used. This can accelerate local blood circulation, thereby better reducing swelling and relieving pain. In addition, hot compress can also promote tissue repair, absorption of metabolic products and blood stasis. In addition to hot compresses, you can also use Chinese herbal decoctions that have the effects of promoting blood circulation, removing blood stasis, reducing swelling and relieving pain to hot compress or soak the affected area. This will make the treatment effect more obvious.

Because some sprains are difficult to distinguish from fractures and bone cracks, if the patient feels that the injury is serious, he should go to the hospital as soon as possible for timely treatment and swelling reduction to avoid delaying the best treatment time.

4. Skin cleansing

Regardless of the cause of the limb injury, at this time, in addition to taking measures to reduce swelling and relieve pain, it is also very important to clean the skin of the affected area. Especially in the hot summer, the large amount of sweat secretion at this time will lead to the growth of bacteria. If you do not pay attention to regular cleaning, it will induce infection.

There are many ways to reduce swelling and relieve pain. The above are the most effective and convenient physical pain relief methods in life. If these methods are not effective, you should take medications that have swelling and pain relief effects in time.