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Natural Treatment For Abrasions And Effective Home Remedies

June 9th, 2010

The most common conjunctival and corneal injuries are foreign bodies and abrasions. Improper use of contact lenses can damage the cornea.

Superficial foreign bodies often spontaneously exit the cornea in the tear film, occasionally leaving a residual abrasion, but other foreign bodies remain on or within the cornea.

Abrasions are very common sports injuries that are usually caused by a fall on a hard surface.

As the athlete falls or slides on the earth, friction causes layers of skin to rub off.

The skin is composed of an outer layer (the epidermis) which provides protection, and a deep inner layer (the dermis), which provides the firmness and flexibility of the skin.

Abrasions typically refer to an injury that removes these layers of skin. Sometimes abrasions, cuts and scratches result in dire consequences if they aren’t taken care of at the right time.

Causes of Abrasions

1. Abrasions often occur when the surface of a person’s skin comes in contact with a rough surface and this surface rubs the skin raw, exposing the surface skin or the uppermost layers of your epidermis.

2. Usually when some amount of grinding and rubbing occurs on a person’s skin, the result is often an abrasion.

This is often an occurrence when the other surface that grinds or rubs on the person’s skin is rough.

3. Abrasions or wounds causes can occur when a person is involved in an accident or when he slips or slides and rubs the skin on a rough surface.

4. Abrasions can also occur when a person scratches his or her skin raw from an insect bite or an allergic reaction.

Since your nails can be pretty sharp, an abrasion can occur when you continuously scratch a certain part of your skin.

Symptoms of Abrasions

Corneal abrasions and foreign bodies usually cause pain, tearing, and a feeling that there is something in the eye.

They may also cause redness (due to bleeding from blood vessels on the surface of the eye) or, occasionally, swelling of the eye and eyelid.

Vision may become blurred. Light may be a source of annoyance or may cause the muscle that constricts the pupil to undergo a painful spasm.

1. Bleeding from the abrasion
2. Skin pain
3. Skin swelling
4. Skin tenderness

Treatment of Abrasions

As your eye heals, keep it well lubricate with artificial tears at night. You can aggravate an abrasion when you open your eyes in the morning. Do not forget to use artificial tears during the day as well.

A! A clean, infection-free cut or abrasion heals much faster than a neglected wound.

That’s why it’s significant to wash any abrasion or cut methodically with soap and water before applying ointment or medication.

1. Antibiotics for wounds
2. Wound irrigation
3. Rinsing the wound
4. Wound cleansing
5. Wound exploration
6. Wound debridement:
7. Removal of dead or dirty tissue
8. Removal of foreign bodies in the wound

Home remedies for Abrasions

1. The best home remedies for abrasions are to put a few drops of violet oil on the affected area that helps in remedial abrasions.

2. The affected area can also be disinfected with the usage of thyme tea or with a cup of water that contains 3-5 drops of the essential oil.

3. Another good and efficient natural remedy for abrasions is homemade salves and ointments made with tea tree, calendula and comfrey.

4. One of the famous home remedy for treat abrasions is Aloe. It has soothing, anti-inflammatory and sterile properties. It will also help in healing all kinds of wounds on the skin counting abrasions. One should use the pure gel for topical application.

5. Another effective home remedy for abrasions is the herb Calendula, which is anti-inflammatory, astringent and antiseptic. Calendula is said to promote new skin growth and to stop the bleeding.

6. The diet for abrasions is very significant treating abrasions. One should eat proper nutrients rich diet. It is important to keep away from alcohol, drugs and smoking

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Achieving Natural Results With A Facelift

June 9th, 2010

Using modern techniques, it is very straight forward to achieve natural results with facelifts. Many patients will tell me they can always tell when someone has had a facelift. I gently correct them and inform them that you can always tell when someone has had a poor facelift. When someone has had a good facelift, it makes them appear as though they have aged well and others cannot tell. I often show my patients before and after pictures to prove this point.

The goal, I explain to them, should not be to look like they have never aged. Putting a 30 year-old face on a 60 year-old body never looks natural. Having said that, some patients who are 60 may look closer to 45 or 50 years old and yet others may appear in their 70s. There is a wide spectrum of ‘normal’ appearances for a 60 year-old and our goal is to bring the patient back to the younger portion of that spectrum, while still looking natural. In order to achieve this, you need to understand how the body and the mind perceive what constitutes a young-looking face.

When you meet someone and look at them, subconsciously you form an opinion of the person’s approximate age. This is done without thought and occurs almost immediately based on our years of accumulated knowledge of what people look like at a given age. What we are noticing is not the tightness of the person’s skin. If you look at a young person, they do not have tight skin. What you are actually noticing is the shape of their face. Young people have a fullness and volume in their cheeks and they do not have jowls.

Young people have a well-defined jaw line with an angularity to their neck. They do not have large amounts of fatty accumulation under their chin; they do not have loose skin that hangs there or vertical muscle bands. Loose skin and muscle in the neck, fatty accumulation in the neck, loss of volume of the cheeks and fatty tissue collecting in the jowls are all signs that the person has aged and we process this instantly.

Older facelifting techniques focused primarily on tightening the skin. Incisions were made in well-hidden areas around the ears and the skin was elevated off the underlying tissues. The skin was then pulled somewhat tightly in order to attempt to mimic the signs of youth. While there are benefits to removing some skin, firm traction on the skin that gives a tight look is not what we strive for today.

Using modern techniques, we still elevate the skin in a similar fashion; however, prior to removing excess skin the underlying tissues are re-shaped. In the neck, excess fat and tissue is removed and the muscles are tightened so there are not bands running vertically from the chin towards the chest. The skin is also gently removed. Using this technique, the result is a nice angular region between the chin and the neck and a well-defined jaw line.

Jowls are basically fatty tissue that has descended from the cheeks. As people age, the volume in the cheeks drops down towards the jowls. To reverse this sign of aging, the jowl is sutured back up to the cheek region where it was in the patient when they were younger. This accomplishes two goals: It creates volume in the cheeks and removes fatty tissue from the jowls. Not only does this give a very natural result, but the patient looks very similar to the way they did when they were younger. Even though the cheeks are fuller, they are being augmented with the patient’s own fatty tissue so there is not change in appearance from their younger self.

Using these modern techniques, we can turn back the clock 10-15 years, achieve natural results and still maintain the person’s over-all appearance so they look like a younger version of themselves.

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