Cuts

Description:

The cut is the injury of skin put with a sharp object. Small cuts touch only skin and fatty tissue directly under skin, they usually pass independently. More serious cuts (cut wounds) can affect muscles, sinews, blood vessels, ligaments and nerves. The doctor has to examine such damages.

Symptoms of Cuts:

Usually at cuts and grazes there is small bleeding which stops in 10 minutes. At development of bleeding which does not manage to be stopped within 20 minutes or the cut was made a dirty subject (a rusty knife, a shovel, etc.) and in a wound is foreign objects (dirt, splinters), it is necessary to see a doctor. Also it is necessary to ask for medical care if there is a need of administration of antitetanic serum (if last time it was entered more than 10 years ago), at deep or long cuts, cuts on a face, in cases when it is impossible to connect edges of a wound by means of a plaster or there is a gaping wound. Deep cuts in joints, palms, the person, a neck, a breast or any other sites where you do not allow developing of scars, a cut at the small child, especially if it breaks a bandage, symptoms of an infection (reddening, pain and a swelling around a wound), numbness of the damaged site also demand survey of the doctor. It is necessary to call the ambulance if there is uncontrollable bleeding, impossibility to move or move normally with fingers of hands and legs, shock signs.

Reasons of Cuts:

Cuts are formed as a result of careless handling of the cutting objects, or their deliberate use with the purpose to put damages. Most often in living conditions cuts are carried out by knives, shaving edges, splinters of glass and edges of sheets of paper.

Treatment of Cuts:

It is necessary to wash out a wound weak solution of an antiseptic agent, to apply a compressing bandage.

At the expressed bleeding or a pulsation of blood follows immediately will ask for medical care.

Make sure that in a wound there is no dirt, splinters or other foreign bodys.

See a doctor if you cannot wash out and clear a wound of foreign bodys.

Redress a wound independently, using sterile bandage or napkins. At superficial cuts it is possible to use a bactericidal plaster.

Apply a bandage across, but not lengthways to connect edges of a wound and to accelerate healing.

Wet wounds heal quicker and after them there are smaller scars, than from dry wounds. The crust which is formed on dry wounds interferes with renewal of cells of epidermis (a skin blanket).

Treatment of wounds at children:

Wet wounds heal quicker and after them there are smaller scars, than from dry wounds. The crust which is formed on dry wounds interferes with renewal of cells of epidermis (a skin blanket).