Hello! I have been a doctor for 21 years. My name is Georgy Olegovich Sapego. This article will be another batch of popular questions.
Question: How long can boiled eggs be stored?
Answer: Boiled eggs can be kept in the refrigerator for a week. This is provided that the eggs were placed there after two hours. That is, on Easter, you can play with eggs for a couple of hours, and then you need to hide in the refrigerator. People still ask me about it. Looks like Easter eggs are enough for a long time.
Question: Why do thrombosis in the hospital more often occur in people with fractures, after joint surgery and oncology?
Answer: Because they don't move their legs with fractures. From this, the blood stagnates. And the swelling of the leg from the injury compresses the veins and disrupts the outflow of blood. And the body also activates the anticoagulant system after fractures, because it is afraid of bleeding. Oncology is even more difficult. There, in 10% of cases, there are venous thrombosis. This is sometimes associated with chemotherapy. The drug scalds the veins and provokes the formation of blood clots. It happens that the tumor grows into the blood vessels. In general, different organs and tissues react strangely to tumor growth.
Question: What to do to avoid blood clots during long flights?
Answer: There are several universal rules. It is advisable to get up every hour or two and walk down the aisle. Better to fly in loose clothing. If you sit for a long time, then you need to bend and unbend your legs at the knees and ankle joints more often. Change your position more often, but never cross your legs (this is how the veins are pinched). You can try compression stockings. Give up sedatives, all kinds of suprastins, from which they sleep, drugs for motion sickness. They suppress the normal urge to move.
Question: Does succinic acid help with edema?
Answer: I doubt that succinic acid will help. In my opinion, half of the drugs are just salts of succinic acid. They are called succinates. You can look at the instructions for the drugs. Succinic acid is also used in the food industry as an acidifier and flavor enhancer. Our body is full of it. If succinic acid had a healing effect, it would be immediately noticed. Simply because it is used at every step. This is not a medicine, but a workhorse. Almost like table salt.
Question: What helps with night leg cramps besides magnesium?
Answer: Magnesium helps less often in such matters than is commonly believed. It is more important to simply not mechanically let your feet pull out your socks. To do this, before going to bed, the calf muscles are stretched, and at night the legs are laid so that the foot is at a right angle. That is, in the supine position, the toes should be facing the ceiling. If, in this position, rest your feet on a rolled-up blanket, then you will not be able to pull out the socks.
Question: What is the cause of a sharp spasm in the neck?
Answer: It hurts the muscle. She worked and got tired. If, after that, you leave the muscle in a shortened position, and then cool it, then it sharply spasms. The shortened position is, for example, lying on the sofa on your side without a pillow, and your head on the armrest. Or something similar. That is, a long, not very comfortable forced position. Cooling can be simply from a draft or an air conditioner. Incidentally, this is one of the few harmful effects of cold. Usually we doctors love the cold. The most interesting thing is that a sharp muscle spasm is treated with just cold. If the neck is twisted, then small muscle fibers are torn. It hurts. From this there is inflammation.
The universal anti-inflammatory agent is cold. Apply ice to the sore spot through a rag on 15 - 20 minutes. For the next two days, this can be done every two hours. It turns out that the cold provokes a pain in the neck, and then the cold also treats this pain. Brain blow.
Do you have an example of a treatment that simply does not fit in your head? Well, like this cold treatment for cold pain.
