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Using a heating pad.
The most affordable physiotherapy procedures associated with warming up can be done with a heating pad at home. But the heating pad is not as safe as it might seem at first glance. Many complications of the course of the disease can be expected from improper and inappropriate use of a heating pad. For this reason, using a heating pad at home without a doctor's recommendation, you should pay attention to a number of features of its use.
Tissue edema caused by an inflammatory process of unknown origin or a purulent process should not be warmed up with a heating pad. This kind of edema can occur with pain in the tooth, with a joint injury or joint disease, with the formation of a boil, after an insect bite, after tissue injury, after an injection.
Abdominal pain of unknown origin, accompanied by upset stool, nausea, vomiting or fever, cannot be relieved with a heating pad as a distracting and relaxing heat source.
For pain in the ear and throat associated with inflammation of unknown origin, do not use a heating pad.
In case of headache caused by trauma, concussion, spinal bruise, osteochondrosis, as well as headache accompanied by a rise in temperature, do not use a heating pad.
A hot water bottle will help relieve neuritis, muscle stretching (when the swelling subsides), with non-purulent arthritis, radiculitis, and myositis.
When the pressure rises, with an attack of "barking" cough, a heating pad is applied to the feet.
For blind probing, a heating pad is applied to the area where the liver is located.
A heating pad is applied to the forehead for migraines and migraine-like head pains.
When freezing, the heating pad is suitable as a heating element.
The use of a heating pad is also justified as an alternative to mustard plasters.
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