Brief overview What is frostbite?: In frostbite, the skin and tissues are poorly perfused and damaged due to severe exposure to cold. There are different types of frostbite, depending on the extent of the damage, doctors distinguish three degrees of severity. Symptoms: Depending on the severity of frostbite: from mild redness and swelling to skin … Frostbite: Description, Types, Symptoms
Wound pain is an important warning signal to alert to disorders and diseases that can be dangerous to the body. Therefore, injuries, whether from surgery or accidents, are always associated with pain. They may even persist beyond the actual healing. What is wound pain? Wound pain includes not only pain, from the injury itself, but … Wound Pain: Causes, Treatment & Help
Chilly temperatures in winter can not only cause cold hands, cold feet or a cold nose, but the lower temperatures can also have more serious consequences. These include tissue damage such as frostbite and frostbite. Read how to prevent and treat frostbite and frostbite here. Frostbite on hands and toes Frostbites are swellings under the … Treat Frostbite and Frostbite
Symptoms In localized frostbite, the skin becomes pale, cold, hard, and insensitive to touch and pain. Only when it warms and thaws does redness appear and severe, pulsating pain, burning, and tingling set in. In addition, edema and blisters may form and, in a severe course, tissue dies. Often affected are exposed parts of the … Frostbite
The pinna is the outer part of the ear, which is individually shaped in each person. It has both functionally important and non-functional parts (for example, earlobe). Diseases of the auricles are often the result of mechanical action, injury, piercings, insect bites, or surgery. What is an auricle? The auricle identifies the externally visible part … Auricle: Structure, Function & Diseases
Symptoms Pain in the ear (technical term: otalgia) can be unilateral or bilateral and persistent or intermittent. They vary in intensity and nature, can be extremely uncomfortable, and sometimes go away on their own. Ear pain is often accompanied by other symptoms, such as a discharge from the ear canal, difficulty hearing, a feeling of … Earache Causes and Treatment
Shaking, twitching or tremor is mostly an unconscious trembling or oscillating motor movement of parts of the body. Trembling hands, in particular, are often a clear marker of the symptom. What is tremor? Trembling hands, in particular, are often a clear marker of the symptom. As noted, tremor is mostly an unconscious or involuntary motor … Tremor: Causes, Treatment & Help
In winter during prolonged, moderate cold, skin damage can occur on toes and fingers, for example. If the warning signs such as tingling on the toes, fingers or nose are ignored, the familiar painful frostbite will result. But frostbite and hypothermia are also possible consequences of the cold temperatures. We reveal how to treat frostbite … Frostbite and Frostbite
Products Carbon dioxide is commercially available in compressed gas cylinders liquefied and as dry ice, among other products. The various products differ in purity. Carbon dioxide is also monographed in the pharmacopoeia. It is available, for example, in grocery stores for making your own sparkling water. Structure Carbon dioxide (CO 2 , O=C=O, M r … Carbon Dioxide
Products Water is commercially available in different qualities. Water for pharmaceutical purposes is available in pharmacies, for example, the purified water (see there). It is produced in pharmacies or ordered from specialized suppliers. Structure Pure water (H2O, Mr = 18.015 g/mol) exists as a clear, colorless liquid without odor or taste. It is an inorganic … Water
Symptoms Hallux valgus (“crooked toe”) refers to a deformity of the big toe that deviates outward at the metatarsophalangeal joint. It is based on a deviation of the metatarsal bone towards the inside. Due to this malposition, sometimes severe pain, pressure and friction complaints, swelling, inflammation, corns, calluses as well as sensory disturbances develop as … Bunion (Hallux Valgus)
Symptoms Minor burns manifest as superficial skin redness, pain, burning, tightness, and possibly the formation of clear skin blisters and open sores. They usually heal on their own within about two weeks and leave hardly any scars. During and after healing, there is often an annoying itching sensation. Later sensory disturbances are also possible. It … Light Burns
