Many patients, when telling their loved ones or relatives about the treatment that was once prescribed for various diseases, often recall a hot injection. The feeling of warmth, slowly spreading throughout the body, sometimes turning into heat - this feeling is remembered for a long time. If a person was given a hot injection at least once in his life, the memory of this remains forever.
What is a hot shot
A hot injection is, first of all, an individual reaction of each patient to a fairly rapid intravenous stream of calcium chloride. Most often, such reactions occur when prescribing such drugs containing inorganic and organic salts, substances that are involved in the regulation of neuromuscular transmission in the patient's body.
Typically, the drug "Calcium chloride" is prescribed for a lack of calcium in the body, in the treatment of certain allergic and skin diseases, with inflammatory processes. The route of administration of calcium chloride is by intravenous or intramuscular injection.
How and where to make a hot injection
When prescribing Calcium Chloride medication, the doctor must inquire whether the calcium preparation was prescribed earlier and how the patient tolerated their administration, whether there was a difference when performing intramuscular or intravenous injections. This is especially important when choosing a place - where to give an injection. With the introduction of any such drug into a vein, it is necessary to choose a vessel of sufficient diameter. Otherwise, when performing an injection, thrombophlebitis may develop due to a chemical burn of a thin inner layer of the vein wall.
In the event that any such drug, especially a chloride injection, accidentally gets under the skin, the patient may experience necrosis of subcutaneous fat with the development of severe suppuration and the need for surgical treatment of this complication.
In some cases, a sensation of warmth can occur with the rather rapid introduction of calcium gluconate or magnesium sulfate intramuscularly - in this case it is important to inject the prescribed drug deep enough into the thickness of the muscle. That is why such a hot injection can be performed only in large accumulations of muscle tissue, most often in the gluteus muscle, and only in the outer upper quadrant of the buttock. In the process of performing a medical appointment, you need to make sure that the needle does not enter the blood vessel - just pull the syringe plunger slightly for yourself.
In which cases a hot injection is prescribed
It is important to remember that in any case, a hot injection, regardless of what disease or pathological condition such treatment is prescribed for, should be introduced only after consultation with a qualified and experienced doctor. Calcium, magnesium, chlorides, sulfates that enter the body with such an injection can affect the permeability of the vessel wall, heart contractions, blood coagulation processes, transmission of neuromuscular impulses, and smooth and striated (skeletal) muscles. Therefore, such medicinal substances in any form and route of administration should be prescribed according to strict indications.
When stopping an allergy attack or treating long-term allergic reactions (dermatitis, dermatoses, bronchial asthma, inflammatory processes with an allergic component), calcium preparations can be prescribed intramuscularly or intravenously. The doctor should monitor the patient's condition at the time of injection and immediately after it.
The feeling of heat and warmth after the injection of a hot injection passes rather quickly, without causing pain and any unpleasant sensations when this medical procedure is carried out correctly.