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How to treat frostbite on hand

BY Jim Jerome 2019-02-14

  The weather is cold in winter, and the exposed skin is easily affected by the cold, causing skin damage and frostbite. Chilblain is more likely to occur in the hand, and it is often painful and itchy during the attack, which may affect the patient''s normal life. So how to treat frostbite on the hand? Here are a few simple methods.

  I. Banana smear
After having frostbite on your hand, wash it with hot water every night, then take a banana, and after peeling, use banana meat to rub the frostbite area, do not wash it after finishing. Apply it once or twice a day, and the symptoms will improve in a few days.
  Second, ginger liquor to treat frostbite
   Prepare about 60 grams of ginger, smash it, add 100 ml of liquor, and soak for about 3 days. Then use a cotton swab dipped in this medicine to wipe the frostbite area twice a day for a week, the symptoms will be greatly relieved.

  Three, Yunnan Baiyao Treatment of frostbite with powder
  If the frostbite on the hand is not ulcerated, you can directly apply Yunnanbaiyao powder to the affected area, wrap it with gauze, and pay attention to heat preservation, change the medicine once a day, it will be good in a few days Too. If the frostbite has already ulcerated, it can be disinfected with iodophor, and then sprinkled with Yunnanbaiyao powder, or wrapped with gauze, which can be cured in three to five days.
  Four, vinegar soaking
  If the frostbite on your hand is just emerging, you can soak your hands with vinegar and soak for half an hour or so in a day. Seeing the obvious effect, it can be cured in three days.

  Five Fengyoujing for the treatment of frostbite
   Fengyoujing is a common cooling oil. It is also very effective in treating frostbite. If frostbite grows on your hand, you can apply Fengyoujing to the affected area every day, and you can apply it every day. Many times, it will be effective in about three days, and it will be almost a week.
  Six, salt water soaking hands
  Prepare a small pot, put a lot of salt in it, then pour the right amount of hot water, mix it into the brine with higher concentration, use Soaking your hands with this concentrated salt water will have a better effect, because the salt can sterilize and reduce inflammation, and the treatment of frostbite on the hands.

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