Erysipelas — disease of young men and older women

Erysipelas — an infectious disease caused by hemolytic Streptococcus. Externally, it is manifested by inflammation of the skin in the form of red spots that progresses.

In the structure of infectious pathology of the disease takes the 4th place after acute respiratory and intestinal infections, viral hepatitis. Often face sick the elderly, mostly women, but also men from 20 to 30 years, whose professional activity is connected with frequent micro-traumas, contamination and rapid changes in temperature. This drivers, construction workers, military, etc.

Erysipelas usually manifests on the feet and hands, rarely on the face, more rarely on the trunk, in the crotch and on the genitals. Given the fact that inflammation of the skin red spots appear on exposed parts of the body, they cause a psychological discomfort.





 

Why is there a mugPathogen —hemolytic Streptococcus is transmitted through contaminated linen, clothes, hands, airborne. Very often, erysipelas occurs on the background of other diseases: foot fungus, diabetes, alcoholism, obesity, varicose vein disease, lymphedema, foci of chronic streptococcal infection (tonsillitis, otitis, sinusitis, dental caries, periodontal disease, trophic ulcers), as well as chronic diseases, reducing overall immunity (usually in the elderly), exhaustion, hypothermia. The disease occurs with symptoms of allergies.

The symptomsStarts on face with malaise, headache, nausea, insomnia, sometimes vomiting, in a certain part of the body is redness of the skin, which may migrate. Inflammation on the skin for several days increases, some time is retained at a certain level and often takes place in 7-10 days. During this period the temperature rises, respectively, accelerating the pulse.

Anti-inflammatory teasDuring treatment, prescribe anti-inflammatory, antiallergic drugs, and drugs that stimulate the immune system.

• Infusion of red raspberry: 2 tbsp. l. raw pour 500 ml of boiling water, bring to boil, to insist 2 hours, strain, take 1 tablespoon 8 times a day.
• Infusion travaglione angustifolia (popularly called fireweed, willow herb) 30 g dried minced raw pour 500 ml of boiling water, to insist 1 hour, strain, take 2 tablespoons 4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

• Tincture of roots of Scutellaria baicalensis: chopped raw material to fill a 70% solution of ethyl alcohol in the ratio 1:5, to insist 14 days, stir daily, strain, take 30 drops 4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.
• To stimulate immune system function it is advisable to treat Echinacea: 1 tablet 3 times a day.

Compresses and lotions

• Tincture Arnica Montana moisten the affected places or lubricate them with an alcoholic solution of iodine and sprinkled with powdered licorice (B. G. Skachko, G. A. Oreshek).
• Nastoichivy bells crowded (2 teaspoons of raw pour 200 ml boiling water, bring to boil, to insist 2 hours) warm, applied to the affected areas, periodically changing the fabric with the solution 8 times per day.
• Tincture of marigold (chopped raw material pour 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1: 10, to insist 7 days, 2 times a day shaking) diluted with warm boiled water in the ratio 1:5 and applied to the affected places.

• Hemp seed is ground into powder, mixed with boiling water in the ratio 2:1, add fresh green bark of the elderberry or sloe usual, is applied warm to the skin of the affected places. The dried bandage is changed for a new one. Treat until then, until there is no inflammation.
• Chalk pound in a mortar to a fine powder, sprinkle the affected area, cover the top red woolen cloth and a bandage. The procedure is performed daily, certainly before sunrise. Chalk pound in a mortar to a fine powder, mixed with the powder of sage leaves in 1:1 ratio, applied to the affected area and cover with a cotton cloth. Change 4 times a day, avoiding direct sunlight.
• The experience of folk medicine claims that an effective treatment for faces is frog spawn which is harvested in the spring. To do this, the eggs are thin in substance, is dried in a warm place. During exacerbation of the disease eggs soaked and applied to the affected skin for the night. Sometimes 3-4 such procedures sufficient for complete recovery. Store eggs should be in a cool place not more than 6 months.
• The affected areas of the skin grease with one of the drugs of these plants: powdered bark of elderberry (6-8 g of minced raw pour 500 ml of boiling water, bring to boil, boil for 5 min and leave for 2 hours), flowers or fruits of hawthorn blood-red (2 tbsp. l. raw pour 500 ml of boiling water, to insist 2 hours), plantain leaves (4 tbsp. l. raw pour 500 ml of boiling water, bring to boil, to insist 30 minutes), do a dry compress of potato starch.
• Prepare the pigmented layer of the bark of Terna ordinary. Crushed, dried and stored in a dry place. During exacerbation of the faces 2 tablespoons of raw materials pour 200 ml of boiling water, boil 10 minutes, insist 10 minutes, strain applied to the affected places. At the same time taking the broth into 1 tablespoon 4 times a day after meals.

Face often recurs in the same place and has the same current.To prevent relapse it is necessary to treat chronic foci of infection: skin diseases of microbial origin, chronic tonsillitis, sinusitis, frontal sinusitis, caries.

The importance of the hardening of the body. Avoid hypothermia.
The treatment of erysipelas requires patience and confidence that the disease can be overcome. This assures the clinical experience of the author, and I am sure one of the above treatments will help to achieve success. published

Author: Ivan Chekman

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