Treatment of a felon on the leg - how can I do this without surgery

Panaritium is an inflammatory process,which can develop on the toe, both legs and arms. Inflammation caused by bacteria. This is usually staphylococci or streptococci, but anaerobic microflora can also be added to cause the putrefactive fusion of finger tissue.

Occurrence of felon on the leg is associated with microtrauma, splinter, improper pedicure or cutting the burrs, when the wound gets an infection from shoes, earth, clothing.

Types of felon on the leg

There are several types of it, depending on which tissues are inflamed and where the pus has reached. That's it:

- skin;

- subcutaneous;

- articular;

- tendinous;

- bone;

- articular felon.

Paronychia are separate forms (when pusis in the periungicular roll), subungual felon (accumulation of pus under the nail), and also the situation when pus melts all tissues - from skin to bone (this is called pandaktilitom).

Manifestations of felon on the leg

The difference panaritsiyev from other purulent diseasesis that this disease is characterized by a fairly rapid spread of pus to neighboring areas and tissue. This is due to the structure of the hands and feet: under the skin is subcutaneous fat, under it are the tendons and muscles. The peculiarity of these places is that the tendons of the muscles that move the fingers are enclosed in special cases of connective tissue and surrounded by loose fatty tissue: pus, falling into such a layer, easily spreads in length and thickness.

There is a felon as swelling, redness andfinger pain of varying severity. The pain of a pulsating nature, it increases by the night, has a tendency to increase. Surgeons even have the rule of the first sleepless night, which means that if a person could not fall asleep because of pain in his finger, it is time to operate.

With the spread of purulent process worsensgeneral condition of the patient: weakness appears, body temperature rises, pulse quickens. It is becoming more and more painful to move a finger or to step on it while walking, swelling and redness are becoming more and more pronounced.

Panaritium: how to treat

Treatment of felon on the leg is almost alwayssurgical - under local (with a common process - under general) anesthesia, an abscess is opened, removal of dead tissue, then the wound is drained and 1-2 sutures are applied to it, or the sutures are not applied at all. The wound is washed with solutions of peroxide, chlorhexidine, furatsillina. Antibiotics are prescribed inside or intramuscularly (intravenously).

How to treat felon at home?

If an abscess can be seen under the skin, swelling and redness of a small size, there has not been a sleepless night, you can try the following method: alternate 2 types of compress during the day:

1) dressings with hypertonic sodium solutionchloride: you can take a ready-made 10% solution in a pharmacy or prepare it yourself by dissolving a tablespoon of salt in a glass of water. Apply and hold the compress until dry, 2-3 times a day.

2) Compress with dimexide:Dimexide dilute with boiled water at the rate of 1: 4, soak sterile gauze with this solution, put on a finger, on top - polyethylene, with a top layer - a bandage or cotton cloth. The best option would be to pour the antibiotic solution on top of the gauze (for example, penicillin diluted with saline - 5 ml per 1 bottle), and then only apply cellophane and gauze.

In the treatment of felon need to remember one rule: the abscess can not be heated in any case, to prevent the process from spreading to the underlying and adjacent tissues.