How to cure a purulent wound

Any wounds can be exposed to a serious risk of infection. Bacteria, when injected into the wound, gradually cause inflammatory process. The main signs of inflammation are: throbbing pain, swelling of the damaged area of the skin and increase body temperature. To avoid serious problems, you need to promptly begin the treatment of purulent wounds.

Treatment of purulent wounds

In complex situations it is recommended to seek the assistance of the surgeon who will conduct treatment of purulent wounds and prescribe appropriate treatment. If the inflammatory process is not running, and the wound is not so serious, then it is possible to carry out the treatment at home. For this you will need: tweezers, scissors, bandages, hydrogen peroxide, gauze, a potassium permanganate solution, surgical gloves, band-AIDS, ointment Vishnevsky.

Treatment and wound treatment is aimed at removal of necrotic tissue and provision of drainage, acceleration of wound healing and suppression of hazardous microorganisms. The first thing you need to wash your hands and ensure sterility of the materials used. Put on gloves and remove old dressing from the wound. If it is stuck, then treat it liberally with hydrogen peroxide and then remove the bandage. Soak gauze in hydrogen peroxide, clean the area around the wound. This manipulation is necessary to prevent the ingress of germs into the wound. Then treat the actual wound with peroxide, alternating with potassium permanganate solution. In the end, apply it Vishnevsky ointment on a gauze bandage and apply to the trouble areas, fix it with bandage or band-aid.

It is impossible to rinse the wound with water, sprinkle them with powder, to process wool. Lint cotton may remain in the wound and enhance the inflammatory process.

How to treat festering wounds.

For the treatment of purulent wounds, you can use the recipes of traditional medicine, this most often used washing, lotions and poultices. For irrigation and lotions often use aloe juice, which has good anti-inflammatory action. This is the juice or the pulp of cranberry bog, berry has medicinal and healing properties. You can use the following recipe: wash under running water the fresh leaves of lilac, chop them and squeeze the juice, soak a bandage and apply to the wound festering for two hours. Soon the wound begins to heal.

Folk medicine recommends to use for the treatment of purulent wounds lotions of grated carrots or crushed its leaves.

If festering wounds for a long time to heal, it is recommended to make lotions from the leaves of eucalyptus globulus. To do this, take 30 grams of eucalyptus leaves and pour a glass of boiling water. Insist in a thermos for two hours. Then infusion of strain and let cool, mix with a liter of boiled water. Use the prepared composition for washing purulent wounds and lotions.