No one is immune from a jaw injury, the most famous pathology is a bruised jaw (ICD-10 S00-S09). However, injury can occur at any age. There are bruises of the jaw for various reasons: from catastrophes of various levels of severity to injuries from a blow acquired as a result of a street fight. A blow to the jaw affects the soft tissues of the face, blood arteries and capillaries. This leads to the formation of hematomas and edema. People feel intense pain and discomfort.
Reasons
The main prerequisites leading to bruises and other injuries of the jaw include:
- falling, bruising of the jaw after impact or other contact with any hard surface that occurs rapidly and suddenly;
- fight - it can be just childish fun or adult serious showdown;
- an accident, such as a fall from a bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, as well as all kinds of traffic accidents in which a blow fell on the front of the head.
Symptoms
A bruise of the jaw is an injury that occurs without disturbing the structure of the bones and the integrity of the skin of the face. It is quite common anddiffers from a fracture in that when bruised, you can clench your teeth.
Symptoms:
- Pain appears at the site of injury, which increases with physical contact with the area of injury. For example, palpation of the site of injury.
- Swelling, redness is formed. Abrasions or bruises may appear at the site of injury.
- Difficult to eat. It is difficult to yawn, speak, etc. But a person can grin, even though it will hurt.
- Toothache also appears. It becomes brighter when you press on the dentition.
- Lips may bleed and swell.
- It will be difficult to move your jaw.
- If a person wears braces or dentures, it may be uncomfortable to wear.
- There is inflammation of the lymph nodes.
A person begins to feel worse. Finally, to find out if a person has a bruised jaw can only be an x-ray or a computed tomogram. It will also reveal which jaw is affected:
- top;
- lower.
Injury to the upper jaw can be dangerous. The upper jaw has a connection with the nose, eye sockets, maxillary sinus, and it is also inseparable from the bones of the skull. Less dangerous bruise of the lower jaw (ICD-10 defines the code for this pathology - S00-S09).
First Aid
How to give the right first aid for a bruise? It has visual symptoms:
- changing skin tone;
- severe pain appears;
- tissues begin to swell.
Cooling will be an elementary first aid for a bruised jaw, the ICD-10 code is S00-S09 - we have already named this pathology. As a cooling item, you can take anything - from a plastic bag with snow to a heating pad with ice water. A pressure bandage is required on top.
After that, it is important to keep the damaged jaw at rest and deliver the patient to the trauma department as soon as possible. When the victim complains of severe pain, it is allowed to give him painkillers. Heating bandages are strictly prohibited for such injuries, as this will provoke the development of inflammation.
The hospital needs x-rays to determine if it's a fracture or bruise. There is no other way to determine it. You also need to know that often this injury is accompanied by a concussion. It is necessary to undergo a medical examination in order to exclude serious jaw injuries, whether it be fractures or damage to the bones of the skull. Successful treatment of a bruised jaw at home is possible only when an accurate diagnosis is known and possible complications are prevented.
Medication treatment
When bruising the jaw, the victim is prescribed medication, which consists in taking painkillers to relieve pain, as well as various anti-inflammatory medicines for external use that relieve swelling and cyanosis. First of all, with such injuries, cold can help. It not only relieves swelling, but also helps to stop bleeding. Such an effect ismany ointments and gels. They are easy to use, quickly absorbed into the skin without staining clothes.
Relieve pain
Drugs recommended for increased pain:
- "Analgin";
- "Ketorol";
- "Nurofen";
- "Sedalgin";
- "NiseBral";
- "Nimesil";
- "Tempalgin".
External use
External use for bruises:
- "Ketonal";
- "Fastum gel";
- "Long cream";
- "Finalgon";
- "Reparil gel";
- "Indomethacin".
Drugs containing heparin are very effective. It does an excellent job with subcutaneous accumulations of blood and lymph, and also effectively relieves swelling. However, this drug has some contraindications.
People with poor blood clotting are prohibited from using such drugs. Some gels contain horse chestnut extract, which is strictly contraindicated in pregnant women and people with kidney disease. Therefore, before using any medication, you must study the instructions for use.
Treatment with folk remedies
This type of jaw bruising is used in tandem with traditional medical treatment. The most famous types of treatment with folk remedies:
- Plantain leaves, chopped wormwood leaves, and finely chopped onion should be applied to the jaw. All these slurries are applied as a compress on a bruise. As soon as this mass dries, it must be removed and a new one put in.
- The bodyaga remains the most popular and effective way, it is bought at a pharmacy, diluted with water to medium density and applied to a bruised jaw.
- If there are bruises and bruises at the site of the bruise, herbal tinctures infused with vodka should be used as compresses. Tinctures are suitable from the following plants: bearberry, knotweed, horsetail, bean shell, as well as birch leaves, blue cornflower. If they are not available in the form of alcohol tinctures in a pharmacy, you need to buy them in a dry form, pour into a container, grind, pour vodka and insist in a dark place for several days.
- To eliminate the consequences of a bruise, an ointment that you can make yourself is ideal. To do this, you need any fat (pork, chicken), add sea s alt and chopped onions there. The first task of the means by which a bruise is treated is to relieve pain. The first day after receiving a bruise, you can apply only cold. And the next day, you can already apply various ointments, lotions and herbal tinctures in the form of compresses.
The best tinctures and ointments
Folk tinctures and ointments used by our ancestors:
- To get rid of the pain, you need to prepare the following ointment. Mix nutria fat and hop cones. Apply to the affected part of the jaw. Within two days the pain is gone.
- We takevodka and camphor. Lotions need to be soaked in the prepared product. After the bandage or cloth that you use in the form of gauze dries, you need to immediately wet it again.
- Lotions from tincture or decoction of mountain arnica. If there is no such infusion in the pharmacy, we buy a dry concentrate, boil water, throw grass. Leave, wait for it to cool, filter and apply to the sore spot.
- Cabbage leaves relieve swelling, heat from the affected area. Just take a blank sheet, attach to the impact site.
All these medicinal methods from mother nature can be used only after a qualified medical examination. If, after examination, he says that it is possible to treat a bruise at home, only then can the remedies described above be used. And also, according to the doctor's prescription, you can alternate medicines with lotions and herbal compresses.
Consequences
Like any damage, the described condition, if untimely and improperly treated, can cause extremely sad consequences and a rather sharp deterioration in well-being.
A neglected bruise can be a factor in the formation of post-traumatic periostitis, which will subsequently provoke deformation. Correcting this pathology will become much more difficult, and therapy will take a lot of time.
Another undesirable consequence may be the development of post-traumatic myositis, which is an inflammation of bone tissue. Often, against the background of neglected bruises, a contracture is formed - limiting natural mobilityjaw joints.
These consequences can be especially severe when you get a bruise in childhood. During this period, the periosteum is formed in the body. If the surgical intervention is not performed in time, the violation can provoke the formation of a malignant tumor - sarcoma.
Thus, in order to preserve your own he alth and eliminate all the unpleasant consequences of a bruise, you should correctly provide first aid to the victim, make high-quality diagnostics in a medical institution and apply the right methods of treatment in time. Subject to absolutely all the doctor's advice, the prognosis is almost always positive.
