How to treat muscle edema

There are many causes of muscle edema, such as muscle strains, chronic muscle strain, and localized infections. Different causes of treatment methods vary, so it is recommended to seek medical treatment, by the doctor to clarify the cause, for the cause of the appropriate treatment.1, muscle strain: more in the sports process of acute injury, such as in acute jumping or sudden turn, easy to muscle strain, especially in the absence of adequate warm-up, muscle strain probability is higher. After a muscle strain, small internal blood vessels rupture and bleed, and symptoms such as localized muscle edema, pain, and subcutaneous bruising may occur within a short period of time. You can apply ice to the local area within 24 hours to make the local ruptured blood vessels contract and reduce bleeding and swelling. At the same time, it should be noted that within 24 hours, it is forbidden to apply hot compresses locally and prohibit the use of blood-activating topical medicines, otherwise it is easy to cause the swelling to worsen and the bleeding to increase. After 24 hours can be changed to local hot compresses, at this time is conducive to promoting blood circulation, speed up the recovery; 2, chronic muscle strain: mostly for repeated physical labor or long time excessive physical training, mainly manifested as local muscle edema and chronic pain. At this time, patients need to stop physical labor and sports, pain, edema parts of the local hot compresses, accelerate the decomposition of lactic acid, reduce symptoms. At the same time can also be under the guidance of the doctor, the local use of diclofenac diethylamide cream and other drugs for anti-inflammatory, analgesic treatment; 3, local infection: mostly due to traumatic bacterial invasion, easy to cause bleeding in the muscle, abscess, mainly manifested in the local muscle edema, can appear fluctuation feeling. Early on, you can use antibiotics under the guidance of the doctor for anti-infection treatment, such as amoxicillin, cefixime, but also need to brake the affected limbs. If the abscess gradually increases in size and cannot be absorbed, surgical incision can be made to drain the pus.