Core tips: if you have a stomachache, apply it in a hot water bag for a while; if you have a stiff neck, apply it to your neck It can be said that hot compress has become a commonly used auxiliary treatment in the family. Professor Li Yuehua, director of the Department of geriatric diseases, said that hot compress can promote local blood circulation and accelerate blood circulation. It can also improve the anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory ability of the tissue and make the inflammation subside.
If you have a stomachache, apply it in a hot water bag for a while; if you have a stiff neck, apply it to your neck It can be said that hot compress has become a commonly used auxiliary treatment in the family. Professor Li Yuehua, director of the geriatric center of the Chinese Academy of traditional Chinese medicine, said that hot compress can increase the temperature of the affected part, expand the subcutaneous blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, and accelerate local tissue metabolism, which is conducive to disease recovery. It can also improve the anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory ability of the tissue and make the inflammation subside. It can also promote drug absorption and enhance efficacy. For example, in the early stage of the needle eye, bacterial keratitis, eye contusion, etc., hot compress can significantly reduce pain, and also has an auxiliary treatment effect on cataract and glaucoma. Ear diseases such as hearing loss, tinnitus, hot compress can also help, it can promote the ear, head blood circulation, to improve hearing. Head diseases such as hypertension, headache, dizziness, etc., hot compress can relieve symptoms.
Some diseases of the elderly. Such as eye disease, ear disease, head disease, hot compress effect is better. Common hot compress methods are: wet hot compress method, wet the towel in hot water about 50 degrees Celsius and then screw it dry, cover the skin with a layer of gauze or apply Vaseline, and then apply hot compress with a wet towel. Dry hot compress commonly used hot water bag. Fill 1 / 2 to 2 / 3 of hot water with a hot water bag, exhaust the air, tighten the plug, wrap it with cloth or towel, and put it on the part that needs hot compress. However, the penetration of the dry heat method is not as good as that of the wet heat method.
Apply a hot compress to the eyes to relieve fatigue. Close your eyes gently, apply a hot towel to your eyes, keep breathing naturally, and relax. However, the hot water needs to be changed frequently to keep enough temperature. Fumigation hot compress is also suitable for eye hot compress. Can be about 40 degrees Celsius hot water into the cup, close your eyes in the cup. Hot water into mulberry leaves, chrysanthemum, honeysuckle, and other antipyretic and anti-inflammatory Chinese herbal medicine, there is Qingre Mingmu role.
Hot compress cerebellum to relieve dizziness. The hot towel can be put on the forehead for 5 minutes, twice a day, which can play the role of brain, and has the effect of preventing and treating the common dizziness and hypertension of the elderly in summer. Old people with headaches can also apply a hot compress to the forehead, temple, neck, and other places, 3-5 times a day, 20-30 minutes each time.
Hot compress your ears to improve your hearing. Cover one side of the ear with a hot towel, and then change it to the other side after a few minutes. Repeat 5 times alternately, twice a day.
But not all old people are suitable for hot compress. According to Li Yuehua, hot compress should be avoided for facial infection in the dangerous triangle areas, bleeding of various organs, soft tissue contusion, sprain, and skin eczema. Besides, a cold compress can make blood vessels constrict, reduce local congestion and pain. It is suitable for an early stage of epistaxis, soft tissue contusion, joint sprain and craniocerebral injury, cerebral hemorrhage, high fever headache, etc. Do cold compress, if you feel discomfort or pain, should immediately stop, each cold compress time should not be too long, 20 minutes.
