Bruised jaw: causes, symptoms, treatment

Not a single person is insured against a jaw injury, the most famous pathology is a jaw injury (ICD-10 S00-S09). In this case, you can be injured at any age. Jaw injuries occur for various reasons: beginning with catastrophes of various severity levels and ending with injuries from a blow acquired as a result of a street fight. The blow that occurs in the jaw affects the soft tissues of the face, blood arteries and capillaries. This leads to the formation of hematomas and edema. People feel severe pain and discomfort.

Causes

The main conditions leading to bruises and other injuries of the jaw can be attributed to:

• falling, bruising of the jaw after an impact or other contact with any rigid surface, which occurs rapidly and suddenly;
• a fight - it can simply be children's fun or serious adult showdowns;
• accident, for example, a fall from a bicycle, scooter, motorcycle, as well as all kinds of traffic accidents in which the blow fell on the front of the head.

Symptoms

A jaw bruise is an injury that occurs without disturbing the structure of the bones and the entire skin of the face. It is quite common and differs from a fracture in that with a bruise you can bite the bullet.

Symptoms

1. Pain at the site of the injury appears, which increases with physical contact with the area of ​​injury. For example, palpation of the bruise.
2. Formed swelling, redness. Abrasions or bruising may occur at the site of the bruise.
3. It’s hard to eat. It is difficult to yawn, speak, etc. But a person will be able to grin, even if it hurts.
4. Toothache also appears. It becomes brighter if you press on the dentition.
5. The lips may begin to bleed and swell.
6. It will be difficult to move the jaw.
7. If a person wears braces or dentures, it may be inconvenient to wear.
8. There is inflammation of the lymph nodes.

A person begins to feel a deterioration. Finally, to find out whether a person has a jaw bruise, only an x-ray or computed tomogram can. It will also reveal which jaw was affected:

• top
• bottom one.

An upper jaw injury 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. A lower jaw injury is less dangerous (ICD-10 determines the code for this pathology - S00-S09).

First aid

How to provide the right first aid for bruises? It has obvious symptoms:

• change in skin tone;
• severe pain appears;
• tissues begin to swell.

Cooling will be an elementary first aid for a bruised jaw, the code for ICD-10 - S00-S09 - we have already named for this pathology. As a cooling item, you can take anything from a plastic bag with snow to a heating pad with ice water. Top necessarily need a pressure bandage.

After this, it is important to keep the damaged jaw alone and to deliver the patient to the trauma unit as soon as possible. When the victim complains of severe pain, it is allowed to give him painkiller. For such injuries, heating dressings are strictly prohibited, as this will provoke the development of inflammation.

In the hospital, it is necessary to take X-ray images in order to accurately determine whether it is a fracture or a bruise. It cannot be determined otherwise. 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, be it fractures or damage to the bones of the skull. Successful treatment of a jaw injury at home is possible only when an accurate diagnosis is known and possible complications are prevented.

Drug treatment

With jaw injuries, the victim is prescribed medication, which consists in taking painkillers to relieve pain, as well as various external anti-inflammatory drugs that relieve swelling and cyanosis. First of all, with such injuries, cold can help. It not only relieves swelling, but also helps stop bleeding. This effect has many ointments and gels. They are easy to use, quickly absorbed into the skin without staining clothes.

Eliminate pain

Drugs recommended for increased pain:

• "Analgin";
• Ketorol
• Nurofen
• Sedalgin;
• NiseBral;
• Nimesil;
• Tempalgin.

Outdoor application

External remedies prescribed for bruises:

• Ketonal;
• "Fastum gel";
• "Long cream";
• Finalgon;
• "Repar gel" ;
• Indomethacin.

Very effective drugs, which include heparin. It copes with subcutaneous accumulations of blood and lymph, and also effectively removes edema. However, this drug has some contraindications.

People with poor blood coagulation are not allowed to use such medicines. Some gels contain horse chestnut extract, which is categorically contraindicated in pregnant women and people with kidney disease. Therefore, before using any medication, it is necessary to study the instructions for use.

Treatment with folk remedies

This type of elimination of the consequences of a jaw injury is used in tandem with traditional medical treatment. The most famous types of treatment using folk remedies:

1. Plantain leaves, chopped wormwood leaves, and finely chopped onions should be applied to the jaw. These all gruel are applied as a compress to the bruise. As soon as this mass dries, it needs to be removed and put a new one.
2. The most popular and effective way is a bodygun, it is bought in a pharmacy, diluted with water to medium density and applied to a bruised jaw.
3. If there are bruises and bruises at the site of the injury, you must use herbal tinctures infused with vodka in the form of compresses. Tinctures are suitable from the following plants: bearberry, knotweed, horsetail, from the bean shell, as well as birch leaves, blue cornflower. If they are not in the form of alcohol tinctures in a pharmacy, you need to buy it in a dry form, pour it into a container, grind it, pour vodka and insist in a dark place for several days.
4. To eliminate the effects of a bruise, an ointment that can be made independently is ideal. To do this, you need any fat (pork, chicken), add sea salt and chopped onions there. The first task of the means by which the bruise is treated is to relieve pain. The first day after getting a bruise, you can apply only cold. And the next day, you can already apply various ointments, lotions and tinctures from medicinal herbs in the form of compresses.

The best tinctures and ointments

Folk tinctures and ointments that were used by our ancestors:

1. To get rid of the pain, you need to prepare the following ointment. Mix nutria fat and hop cones. We put on the affected part of the jaw. Within two days the pain goes away.
2. We take vodka 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.
3. Lotions from tincture or decoctions of mountain arnica. If there is no such infusion in the pharmacy, we buy dry concentrate, boil water, throw grass. We leave, wait, when it cools down, filter and apply to the sore spot.
4. Cabbage leaves relieve swelling, heat from the impacted area. Just take a clean sheet, attach to the place of impact.

All these medicinal methods from Mother Nature can be used only after a qualified examination by a doctor. If, after examination, he says that it is possible to treat a bruise at home, only then the means described above can be used. And also, as prescribed by a doctor, you can alternate medications with lotions and compresses from herbs.

Effects

Like any damage, the described condition with untimely and improper treatment can cause extremely sad consequences and a rather sharp deterioration in well-being.

A launched contusion can be a factor in the formation of post-traumatic periostitis, which subsequently provokes 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, contracture forms - limiting the natural mobility of the jaw joints.

Especially severe these consequences can be when getting a bruise in childhood. Immediately during this period, the periosteum is formed in the body. If surgery is not performed on time, the violation can provoke the formation of a malignant tumor - sarcoma.

Thus, in order to preserve your own health and eliminate all the unpleasant consequences of a bruise, you should correctly provide first aid to the victim, make a high-quality diagnosis in a medical facility and use the right healing methods in time. Subject to absolutely all the advice of a doctor, the prognosis is almost always positive.