Hot compress into four misconceptions
source: life times
hot compress has so many benefits, but not all diseases can be used hot compress therapy. Eager to try, you may first look at the four hot compress misunderstanding, do not let the hot towel "good intentions to do something wrong".
not everyone is suitable for hot compress
skin feeling insensitive or abnormal people, such as the elderly, children, diabetes with neuropathy and stroke patients, should not be blind hot compress. If you need hot compress, you must pay attention to the temperature control, otherwise it is easy to scald.
not all cases can be hot compress
skin with ulceration or skin disease, to avoid skin lesions on the surface of hot compress, to prevent infection or irritation of skin disease, aggravating symptoms.
in addition, acute soft tissue injury such as sprain, strain, and other acute soft tissue injury, subcutaneous blood stasis, 24 - 48 hours should not be hot, otherwise it will aggravate local swelling.
no disease is suitable for hot compress
hot compress is mainly for cold diseases, so patients with warm symptoms are not suitable for hot compress. This kind of crowd often appears to be easy to get angry, especially heat, or accompanied by halitosis and constipation. Women also show excessive menstruation.
hot compress is by no means the hotter, the better the temperature of
hot compress should not be too high, usually 40 - 50 degrees Celsius, hot compress for about 20 minutes. If the skin is tender, the temperature should be lower.
at the same time, to avoid a long time fixed in one part of the hot compress, or easy to cause scald, the most common is the use of hot water bag caused skin scald.