Added: 12/16/2005 |
How To Avoid Hand DiseasesHands are considered to be our true assistants in any job. By nature they are quickly spoiled, and you can develop rough hands and fragile nails. People who work at a factory, who work in open air environments, in places where it is often necessary to wash hands (at medical or children's institutions, in manufacture of feed, etc.) need to work harder to avoid rough skin and fragile nails, but it can be done.
Everyone can have smooth, healthy, soft hands, beautifully cut nails and it is not important what work you have. It is necessary only to pay attention to the hands and take care of them in order to avoid hand diseases and other ailments like rough hands and fragile nails.
There are also different hand diseases which appear to be annoying (rough hands, redness and fragile nails. In fact, hands are the tools of man. And when hands are not all right then it is definitely the feeling of "What could be worse".
Below we will talk about hand diseases, hand redness and hands hyperhidrosis.
Redness of hands. Infringement of hands blood circulation (a redness and cyanosis) occurs at chronic diseases of heart, vascular system, after frequent small chilblains. The last one leads to languid blood circulation.
It is recommended to have bathes with alternate hot and cold water for a few seconds. Procedure lasts about 5-10 minutes 1-2 times a day. After each bath, put a cream for dry skin making massage and gymnastics. You can add in a bath a little dies of potassium permanganate.
For the hand redness, bath with baking soda also help (1 tea-spoon in 1 liter of water), of broth of a bird cherry bark (2 table-spoon in 1 liter of water) or oak broth (50 gram in 3 liters of water).
In summer it is desirable to rub hands with the cucumber juice more often as for winter it is desirable to wash your hands with fresh milk. In the presence of hand redness it is necessary to do massage with a cream. A cream rubbing movements are recommended such as at stretching of the gloves, that is from the end of Fingers to its basis and further by all palm (firstly, one hand, then another). After rubbing a cream do massage of a skin with analogous movements consistently carrying out effleurage, grinding - petrissage, pat. This will help you avoid hand diseases.
Hyperhidrosis. If hands are sweating, it is necessary to wash them with hot water and add several drops of benzoic tinctures or a solution of alum (1 table-spoon in 1 liter of water).
In the presence of hyperhidrosis it is recommended to wash hands with cold water with soap and to wipe by 2 % salicylic alcohol.
Baths of the strong tea, salvia tincture, linden, a yarrow and green tea oak bark are useful, too. It is better to apply means against sweat and baths before going to sleep. In the morning rinse out your hands in cold water and powder with a mix of talc and a boric acid (1:1).
In the autumn, in the winter and in early spring it is not allowed to leave home without gloves and to wash a skin of hands before home leaving.
Recommendations:
1. Most carefully clear a skin of hands of dirtying by the lemon juice.
2. It is good to wash hands in water in which potatoes have been cooked.
3. Avoid some hand diseases by paying your attention to hand care.
4. If you have found some hand diseases, contact with your dermatologist or another doctor!
Like anything, it takes work to maintain the condition of your hands. It's not impossible. Our hands are the key to most of what we do I life and you need to keep them in working order.
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