Can I take a shower if I have a broken bone?

If you don't pay attention in your daily life, it is easy to cause fractures, especially in middle-aged and elderly people. They have serious calcium loss in their bodies and are prone to osteoporosis. Fractures often occur due to some unexpected situations. When a fracture occurs, first take some emergency methods for treatment and go to the hospital for X-ray examination in time. Get enough rest and strengthen your diet. Generally speaking, you can take a bath if there is no external injury.

Can I take a shower if I have a broken bone?

Note that you can take a bath as long as there is no external injury. Please be sure to have someone accompany you to avoid falling.

During the recovery period, it is recommended that you take professional bone-setting, tendon-reinforcing, swelling-relief, muscle-relaxing, blood-activating and stasis-removing medicines such as Baxian Bone-setting Treasure. This can help fractures promote bone cell growth, help callus (bone) form quickly, and heal faster in advance. After 7 days, you can clearly feel the strength of the affected limb from the symptoms. After 30 days, you can clearly see the formation of callus on the X-ray. At this time, you can carry weight and move. After 10 days of maintenance, you can be cured, based on X-rays.

Generally, the stitches are removed 2 weeks after fracture surgery. If the incision heals well after the stitches are removed and there is no obvious redness or swelling, you can take a hot bath and there will be no problem.

First aid treatment for fractures

1. Determine fracture: First, consider the cause of the injury. If it is a car accident, fall from height, machine strangulation, etc., there is a high possibility of fracture. Secondly, look at the condition of the injured person. If the injured limb shows abnormal activity, obvious swelling and pain, there is a high possibility of fracture. If the fracture end is exposed, there is definitely a fracture. If it is unclear whether there is a fracture, it should be treated as a fracture.

2. Close the wound: For patients with fractures and wounds, the wound should be closed immediately. It is best to cover the wound with a clean piece of cloth or clothing, and then bandage it with a cloth tape. The bandage should not be too tight or too loose. If it is too tight, it will cause ischemia and necrosis of the injured limb; if it is too loose, it will not have the effect of bandaging, and it will also not have the effect of compressing and stopping bleeding. If the fracture ends are exposed, be careful not to put them back to their original position. They should continue to be exposed to avoid causing deep infection. If the fracture ends are put back to their original position, they should be noted and explained clearly to the doctor during transportation.

3. Stop bleeding: Use pressure with your hands to stop bleeding. If the amount of bleeding is large, the upper end of the bleeding area should be pressed against the adjacent bone protrusion or bone shaft with the hand. Use clean gauze or cloth to apply pressure to stop the bleeding, and then wrap it with a wide cloth tape to secure it. Apply appropriate force but not too tight. Do not use objects with thin diameters such as electric wires and wires to stop bleeding. If there is a tourniquet, you can use it to stop the bleeding; if there is no tourniquet, you can use a cloth tape. When the upper limbs are bleeding, the tourniquet should be placed in the middle and upper part of the upper arm, and not in the lower 1/3 or the elbow to prevent nerve damage. When stopping bleeding in the lower limbs, the tourniquet should be placed in the middle of the thigh and not in the lower 1/3 of the thigh, the knee or the upper leg. When applying a tourniquet, place padding. The time for applying the tourniquet should not exceed 1 hour for the upper limbs and 1.5 hours for the lower limbs.

4. Temporary fixation: Keep the injured limb in the post-injury position as much as possible, and do not pull or move the patient arbitrarily. The best choice of fixation equipment is to use a splint. If there is no splint, you can use local materials. In mountainous areas, you can use sticks or branches; in factories, you can use cardboard or machine handles; on the battlefield, you can use guns; if you have nothing, you can use yourself to fix yourself, such as fixing your upper limbs to the torso, fixing your lower limbs to the opposite side, and fixing your fingers to adjacent fingers.