A 41-year-old member asked:
what's a simple, cheap treatment for my hand redness?
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Dr. Seema Patelanswered
Holistic Medicine 27 years experience
Hand redness: Hand redness can be from infections which usually require a physician visit since it would be painful with swelling. Mild skin redness can be lots of different things such as mild infections, inflammation, dryskin/eczema, reactions to meds/detergents. Try a gentle aveeno (oatmeal) cleanser, otc steroid cream with a thick emollient such as aquaphor if no change see a physician.
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A member asked:
What does it mean to express milk by hand?
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Dr. Sharon Gillilandanswered
Pediatrics 36 years experience
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.
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A 22-year-old member asked:
I slammed my hand in my car door and now my nail is black. Is this a nail disease?
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Dr. James Fergusonanswered
Pediatrics 46 years experience
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.
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CA
A 24-year-old member asked:
What happens if you broke your hand and it's already been couple months without treatment?
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Dr. Annette Occhialinianswered
Plastic Surgery 36 years experience
Limited choices: A hand fracture several months old that has been untreated has limited options that depend on the problem that has resulted. If there is a deformity or functional loss to the hand/finger than your only choice may be to see a hand surgeon and have surgery to "rebreak" and straighten the healed fracture.
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A 27-year-old member asked:
What do people call a hand specialist?
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Dr. Clayton Peimeranswered
Orthopedic Surgery 50 years experience
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.
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CA
A 39-year-old member asked:
I broke my ulna and radius. Will this affect my ability to use my hand?
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Dr. Clayton Peimeranswered
Orthopedic Surgery 50 years experience
It certainly may: The break (fracture) extends into a joint itself in an adult. In such cases it may be very important to restore the joint by surgery.
In children it is not rare that both forearm bones are broken like a green stick snapping (we call these "greenstick" fractures); usually treated well in a cast, often including the elbow.
In adults, "both bone" forearm fractures usually require surgery to fix.
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