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Hematoma: how to take care of and eliminate purple spots?

Hematoma: how to take care of and eliminate purple spots?

Some people find it easy to have bruises on the body. They are spots on the skin that initially appear purple, well delimited, sometimes painful and others also slightly hardened. Over time, they become blurred, with less delimited edges, and change color to dark green, brown, and brownish.

Hematoma or bruise?

Most of the time they are due to minor trauma such as beating or bumped into some object or piece of furniture that may or may not be remembered. When the traumas are strong enough to break blood vessels from the skin, causing them to overflow, they form the so-called bruises. In fact, the hematoma by definition must have some palpable blood content and bruise is the mark without the blood content (there is no bleeding in the amount sufficient to have a net collection). Sometimes there is confusion between one and the other. The hematoma really is vascular injury with the formation of a collection of blood that may be very small or larger, requiring drainage, and it may even be a complication of some surgical procedure.

In most cases, we refer bruises that appear on the skin, which may be due to these small traumas, such as appear imperceptibly, without remembering some kind of trauma, such as the so-called melancholic spots that occur more frequently in the thighs, Other commonly reported complaints of older patients are those that appear on the forearms and back of the hands on the skin of the elderly by "thinning", flaccidity and vascular fragility of the skin due to intrinsic aging (caused by age) and extrinsic (caused by the sun), when any small "batidinha" ends up leading to the formation of extensive purple spots and sometimes even cutting thin skin. In these cases, the dermatologist may prescribe, in addition to specific moisturizers, local care and dermatological products to improve the quality of the skin, including sunscreen, which is indispensable to all.

Other times, these wounds occur more frequently when the patient uses medicines that "fine-tune" the blood as for example, acetylsalicylic acid, anti-inflammatories, excess vitamins, excess homeopathic. But independently everyone should seek a doctor, whether it be a dermatologist or a general practitioner to perform a "check-up", as serious diseases also lead to blood clotting disorder. Among the diseases, we can mention leukemia, some diseases of the liver, without forgetting contagious diseases.

How to avoid the purple spot after a beat?

Immediately after the trauma, it would be interesting to compress the site with a cold compress or ice covered with cloth or towel (to avoid skin burns from the cold), local massage with a mucopolysaccharide-based cream may also help as long as the person has no allergy to the product. Local cooling is intended to contract the blood vessel by decreasing or ceasing blood loss. If the bruise is already formed, the cream may help, but in cases with large blood volume, there is a need for medical intervention in some cases.

When the bruise is older, warm compresses may help to soften? the content trying to speed up the? cleaning process? locality, ie the absorption of the hematoma and resolution of the process. There are not many really effective topical (creams) options for improving the picture. In some specific cases, dermatologists may use medical LED devices, specific lasers, intense pulsed light and some aesthetic ultrasound devices to prevent skin pigmentation, to shorten the period of convalescence.


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