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

Panaritium is an inflammatory process that can develop on the finger, both legs and arms. Inflammation is caused by bacteria. Usually it is staphylococci or streptococci, but anaerobic microflora can also attach, causing putrefactive melting of the finger tissues.

Occurrence of a panaritium on the leg is associated with microtrauma, splinter, improper pedicure or shearing, when infection comes from shoe, earth, clothes.

Types of Panarity on the Leg

There are several of its types depending on which tissues are inflamed and where pus has got to. That's it:

- cutaneous;

- subcutaneous;

- articular;

- tendon;

- Bone;

- articular felon.

Separate forms are the paronychia (when the pus is in the okolonogtevom platen), subungual panaritium (accumulation of pus under the fingernail), as well as a situation where pus melts all the tissues - from the skin to the bone (this is called pandactylite).

Manifestations of a panaric attack on the leg

The difference between panaricians and other purulent diseases is that for this disease there is a fairly rapid spread of pus to neighboring areas and tissues. This is due to the structure of the hands and feet: under the skin is subcutaneous fat, under it pass 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 are surrounded by loose fatty tissue: pus, getting into such a layer, easily spreads both in length and in thickness.

Panaritium manifests itself as swelling, redness, and pain in the area of the finger of varying degrees of severity. The pain is of a pulsating nature, it intensifies towards night, has a tendency to build up. Surgeons even have the rule of the first sleepless night, meaning that if a person could not fall asleep due to pain in the finger, it's time to operate.

When the purulent process spreads, the general condition of the patient worsens: there is weakness, the body temperature rises, the pulse becomes faster. It becomes more and more painful to move a finger or step on it while walking, swelling and redness become more noticeable and more pronounced.

Panaritium: how to treat

Treatment of the panaricle on the leg is almost always surgical - under local (with a common process - under general) anesthesia, the abscess is opened, the dead tissue is removed. Then the wound is drained and 1-2 seams are applied, or the seams are not superimposed at all. The wound is washed with solutions of peroxide, chlorhexidine, furacillin. Inside or intramuscularly (intravenously) antibiotics are prescribed.

How to treat panaritics at home?

If the abscess is visible under the skin, swelling and redness of a small size, there is no sleepless night, you can try the following method: alternate 2 types of compress during the day:

1) Dressings with hypertonic sodium chloride solution : you can take a ready-made 10% solution in the pharmacy or prepare it yourself, dissolving a tablespoon of salt in a glass of water. The compress should be applied and kept until dry 2-3 times a day.

2) Compress with dimexide: Dimexid diluted with boiled water at the rate of 1: 4, soak this solution with sterile gauze, put on finger, on top - polyethylene, top layer - bandage or cotton fabric. The optimal option is to top on gauze pour out the solution of the antibiotic (for example, penicillin, diluted with saline solution - 5 ml per 1 bottle), and then just apply cellophane and gauze.

In the treatment of panaritization, one rule should be remembered: the abscess can not be warmed in any way to prevent the spread of the process to the underlying and adjacent tissues.