Emergency use opportunely ice 
 
 
Zhu Jiancai Shandong college of traditional Chinese medicine 
 
 
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        Acute sprain: joint careless or lumbar sprain or hurt, local pain and blood stasis, blue, and so on and so forth, to rub up and don't immediately. Accurate method is to use ice packs or cold wet towel, every 1 ~ 3 minutes in a towel, 5 ~ 10 times in a row, can effectively stop pain, relieve edema. After 48 hours to hot compress method is used to promote the hematoma absorption. 
 
        Heat and cooling: in the high temperature condition in an emergency, physical cooling in ice, is one of the important measures to nursing high fever patients. Usually use sandwich ice caps and ice packs on the place such as patients' head, armpits and groins, using the heat conduction and cooling effect. Cool head in patients with traumatic brain injuries, lack of advantage, can reduce brain cell oxygen demand (cod), is conducive to recovery. 
 
        The wound pain: pain after the wound, ice can reduce the sensitivity of the nerve endings and relieve pain. Such as a toothache, use ice packs can be affected the pain; And like fingers into small thorn, can use first ice pack ice fingers, then nagging pain. 
 
        The wound bleeding, if the wound is not big, the surface of the ice packs are available, and vascular contraction, the bleeding stopped. Subcutaneous bruising appear blue, such as joint can bandage hemostasis after first use hot compress, promote the blood stasis and absorption. Ice can make blood capillary contraction, relieve congestion, hemorrhage, applicable to the tonsils removed, nasal bleeding in patients with early and facial soft tissue injuries. 
 
        Bacteriostatic antiphlogistic: skin wound infection after injury, don't put ice packs placed regularly, to suppress bacterial growth or reproduction, reduce local blood flow, prevent spread of fester, resistance to infection. But chronic inflammation or suppurative lesions, unfavorable and ice, due to the dissipation of ice block lesions and absorption. 
 
        After treatment of burns: small area burns, bandage placed immediately affected part, can not only pain, also can prevent blisters and irritation. 
 
        Ice to pay attention: one is don't let the ice bag put directly on the skin of the time is too long, the general should change the position in 20 minutes or so, cool when it is best to ice bag with a layer of towel wrap up, prevent patients too cold stimulation. There were large tissue damage, septic shock, two blue skin, unfavorable use ice, in case of increase of microcirculation disorder, cause tissue necrosis. Three is pillow, auricle, the place such as scrotal ice cream, to prevent frostbite. The area before the heart cold beware of reflective heart rate slows, atrial fibrillation, and conduction block; Abdomen should not be cold, just in case cause intestinal cramps or diarrhea; A foot to prevent a cold sex coronary artery contraction, cause angina, coronary heart disease and therefore high fever patients should avoid a foot with cold therapy.
 
 
 
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