Showing posts with label wounds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wounds. Show all posts

10/08/2008

Cryopreservation, hibernation, induced coma

• A solution for critical injuries and transplants
We are on the threshold of new technologies to study the feasibility-less-distant pause in our bodies.

But unlike the dark intentions of the novel by Cook, stop our biological clock could benefit those with critical injuries, preserve donor organs for transplants, fight cancer, given the opportunity to develop into a future therapies for diseases today incurable or, as the authors dream of science fiction, sleeping during decades of intergalactic flights to wake up fresh and alert at the destination.

10/01/2008

Navel hernia, is never dangerous

The healing of the navel should be monitored by the pediatrician. When the wound disappears, it is not uncommon to be a slight bulge. If so, is due to an umbilical hernia.

This is not dangerous, does not strangle ever, and produces no discomfort. The only problem it presents is the aesthetic. However, if too large or increases, should be operated when the child is between two and four years.

7/29/2008

What to do in a burn a child?

When a burn, we must refresh immediately in cold water. It is best to place the affected area under the faucet for 20 to 30 minutes. They prevent damage from spreading and at the same time, calm the pain.
Then, if the burn is large or affects feet, hands, joints, genitals or face, we must bring the child to a medical center.

It is important not to apply ointment on the wound-best first consulting your doctor or pharmacist-ointments or resort to homemade as toothpaste, oil or lard.

Finally, blisters should not resale, since it will protect the wound infections and accelerate the healing process.

How to heal minor injuries in children?

Small wounds (scratches, cuts, stalks) should be washed with water, placing them under the faucet. Then we must try to remove particles and foreign bodies, if any, using some tweezers previously disinfected with alcohol.

Then you should use a product disinfectant, as tincture of iodine, and finally cover the wound with a sterile dressing, to avoid soiling again and infected.

In the cuts, the dressing should be placed at right angles to the wound, joining the edges of it to heal before. It is important to wash your hands very well (preferably with alcohol) before proceeding to cure the injury.

7/27/2008

What to do before the aggression of a dog

A bite of a dog, is always considered a dirty wound. So, basically when this happens, you should wash the wound with soap and water or disinfectant neutral as the first instance.

If the wound too much blood, we can cover with a clean cloth and wet.

But basically in all cases, although this is minor injuries, and the sooner, we have to hit emergency, where in addition to cure it, you bring vaccines.

If necessary, then the dog will be quarantined. In the case of a vagabond dog, which probably is not vaccinated, the kennel will locate and bring the animal.

As for the injured person, which will reassure and give affection, especially if it involves a child, since it is of utmost importance that can overcome the shock, and that there is any trace of him when confronted with other animals these characteristics.

12/22/2007

Sesbania Punicea Meek Acacia or Acacia of Having Taken a Bath

These acacias (Sesbania Punicea), it is a shrub of 1 and ½ to 2 ½ meters high: it sometimes succeeds in forming a shrub of about 4 meters not very more or less.

Their sheets are composed; from 8 to 12 centimeters long, made up of folíolos in number from 6 to 14 pairs, in way largely elliptic, glabrous, obtuse and apiculados, measuring from 12 to 22 millimeters long; peciolulos from 1 to 1 and ½ millimeters; you stipulate caedizas.

It possesses red flowers, of about 2 centimeters long, prepared in clusters that in general are shorter than the sheets.

Its fruit, as most of the leguminous ones, is a vegetable; long from 6 to 10 centimeters, tetrágona, stocked of coriaceous and wide, relatively wide wings.

It is a plant it would originate of Uruguay, Argentina and south of Brazil. He/she lives in wet places, you border of having taken a bath, lagoons, etc.

Many times it is cultured in the gardens. Their flowers are very showy.

The infusion of the cortex and also of the root it serves as vomitive in the proportion of 10 grams in a liter of water.

The flowers are used to manufacture liquors and to perfume doughnuts.

The infusion or the maceration of the fresh flowers in alcohol, cane, etc., administered in drops desleídas in water it is a good antispasmodic and they are used in the nervous hysteria and press of the heart.

The decoction of the cortex that is rich in tannin, is used in the proportion of 20 grams in a liter of water, as astringent to wash wounds, ulcerations and also in crops for the inflammations of the buccal mucosa.

Eupatorium Subhastatum

Eupatorium Substratum, is a plant erecta that rises from 40 to 50 centimeters high, of thin and woody shafts, generally branched in the extremity florífera; with hair híspidos.

Their sheets are you Alternate, sometimes opposed, numerous to the long of the shaft, of triangular or ovado-triangular sheet, long from 2 to 4 centimeters, with hair in both faces; very short petioles.

The flowers are blue to almost violáceas, in cylindrical chapters that measure 6 or 8 millimeters long, and they are prepared in inflorescence corimbosa in the extremity of the shafts.

It flourishes in February and March. In South America it is very frequent in the flora of the area, mainly located in the south of Brazil, being also in Argentina and Paraguay. He/she lives with preference in dry lands, stony fields, hills and mountains.

In this area there are other plants that also receive the name of "Eupatorium Substratum", "Herb of Charrúa" and also of "Charrúa" simply. This "Eupatorium Substratum", is another plant whose desiccated and powdered root is used to cure the drop of the umbilical cord. The infusion of their sheets or of the whole flourished plant, in the proportion of 40 grams of fresh plant in a liter of water is used as diruetic and anti-rheumatic.

Many also use it in the mat to believe it afrodisiac.

The cocimiento of the fresh sheets in the proportion of 100 grams in a liter of water, it is used to wash wounds and illnesses of the skin.