i have a splinter on my hand that i got yesterday, i woke up today and its red around the splinter, ?

Question

My dad woke with a redness in the arm. It looks as though it is redness along a vein in the arm that starts from the top of his hand all the way to t.

Answer 1

Remove splinter: Your body senses a foreign object and is attacking the site. Try to get the splinter out with a clean tweezer if you can. If you notice the redness spreading or if there is fluid draining from the site, see your doctor to get this evaluated.

Answer 2

Local irritation: It's not common for infection to occur in such a short period of time. The redness is most likely a local immune response to the foreign body. If this worsens, spreads out or streaks or begins to drain then it should be seen.

Answer 3

Pumping by hand: Hand expressing means pumping milk from a breast without using a pump. The woman takes a warm shower or applies a warm cloth to her breast for a few minutes. Then she massages her breast by encircling her breast with both hands at the chest wall and slowly squeezing the breast in towards the nipple. After a couple of minutes, the breast will start discharging milk and this can caught in a cup.

Answer 4

Efficiency!: Believe it or not, i did this myself! i found using a breast pump to be an inefficient and uncomfortable way to express breast milk. Knowing that i was returning to work at 3 months required me to find an alternative. I found hand expression (cup your hand around your breast way up high and then squeeze downward until the milk comes out) to be a very efficient option i could do anywhere.

Answer 5

Most a blood bruise: By traumatizing the sensative nailbed, you have likely caused a bruise/blood collection under the nail.In the 1st 24-48hrs drs often release the pressure by creating a small hole in the nail with a hot needle allowing the blood pool to escape, limiting what will be a long term blood stain on the underside of the nail. The nail grows out slowly ~1-2 mm/mo & a new nail should emerge from the nailbed.

Answer 6

Subungal hematoma: Go have it drained if necessary the nail may fall off but a new nail will grow to replace it.

Answer 7

Nothing: Or see your surgeon.

Answer 8

Depends: It is not unusual to notice a lump over your surgical site after a repair of a hand fracture. This is usually part of the normal inflammatory response. If it has been a while and you can still feel your hardware, you need to decide how much it bothers you. Occasionally, if there is palpable hardware, some surgeons will go back to remove it if it is causing problems.

Answer 9

Depends: This depends on the injury and the degree of disability you can accept if untreated.Best recovery may require quick evaluation & rx.Delay may prevent re-establishing blood flow to starved tissues including muscles & nerves. If blood flow to all fingers & tissues is ok & you have normal sensation over the tissue you may be able to wait some.Keep it clean, elevated & seek care when possible.

Answer 10

Why would you ?: You should never leave a badly injured anything go untreated.

Answer 11

That's the name: Hand care/hand surgery developed as a sub-specialty during the second world war; we have no latin name. Hand surgeons come from orthopaedics, plastic and general surgery; we have additional training in the upper limb beyond our post-graduate residency. We treat problems of nerve, vessel, bone, joint, skin; we treat the upper limb and hand as a functional unit... And work with hand therapists.

Answer 12

"doctor": Most plastic and orthopedic surgeons can do hand surgery. Ps usu better for soft tissue; ortho for joints. Wrist, esp arthroscopy usu done by drs that limit their practice to hand.

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