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my sister just hit me with a phone right under the eye. its swelling up. i have ice on it, what else can i do to keep it from turning into a black eye?

2007-02-15 14:55:25 · 5 answers · asked by arielaungst 3 in Health General Health Care Pain & Pain Management

5 answers

Nothing. You are doing all you can do. Take a Tylenol or something for the pain. It is going to hurt.

Throw the phone back when she isn't looking. That will make you feel a lot better!!!

2007-02-15 14:59:58 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

well you cant really do much. But keep ice on it, and if it does turn into a black eye, use camouflage creme. It worked for me!! Okay. If you dont wanna take it easy like that.. Then read forward:

Head trauma near the eye should always be treated immediately with a cold compress to help prevent swelling and a black eye. If you have children, you should certainly be familiar with this part of the treatment for a black eye. If you’re single, put the raw steak down, that’s an old wives’ tale. Ice in a towel will work just fine to help reduce swelling around the eye by constriction the blood vessels (capillaries) in the sensitive tissue that surrounds your eye. 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off: do this for a day or two.

Administer a pain reliever with acetaminophen and caffeine immediately to help reduce pain and the chances of getting a black eye. You will want to administer acetaminophen with caffeine (tension headache or migraine formulas have caffeine) immediately because caffeine is a vasoconstrictor, a chemical that causes your blood vessels to constrict. You want to reduce the amount of blood that can reach the damaged area at first because blood will simply seep out of the damaged capillaries and cause a larger black eye.
48 hours after the injury has occurred you should switch from cold compresses to warm compresses to treat the black eye. By now the capillaries and blood vessels surrounding your eye should be repaired, and it’s time to get more blood flowing through those veins to help get rid of that black eye. Heat serves to dilate the capillaries underneath the skin, which will induce blood flow and help to flush away dead and dying tissue, including blood clots.
Keep your head elevated while you sleep, and try not to roll over to the side where the black eye may be forming. Keeping your head and your black eye elevated will help reduce blood pressure in your head. True, by now you’re applying compresses to help improve blood flow to those areas, but think of the blood vessels being repaired as very delicate balloons, any amount of pressure could make them pop, leaking blood and making the black eye worse.
Warm compresses, head elevation during the night, and massaging the tissue in gentle circles should get rid of a black eye, but if it doesn’t you should go see a doctor. Any bruise, whether it’s on your eye or on your arm, should start to see improvement within 2 weeks if not sooner. A black eye that lasts longer than 2 weeks should be looked at by a doctor to determine whether or not more severe damage was done, or if perhaps you are suffering from a disease that makes bruising a more serious complication.



I really hope this helps!! Good luck!

2007-02-15 15:03:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

just keep the ice on it. if she hit u hard enough it is going to turn into a black eye. I got hit in the cheek bone with a wooden baseball bat once and got a black eye it swelled up with 2 huge knots in like 2 seconds that night i could already tell i was getting a black eye. Just keep the ice on it, it will bring down some of the swelling it just all depends on how hard u were hit.

2007-02-15 15:00:35 · answer #3 · answered by Jessica 4 · 0 0

it will most likely get black any way,don't let your sister do that to you,and you don't do things like that to her! life is too short,to be fighting with your sis,you never know what may happen,so be kind to each other!

2007-02-15 15:00:47 · answer #4 · answered by kat_luvr2003 6 · 0 0

get some ice

2007-02-15 15:04:16 · answer #5 · answered by God's chosen 3 · 0 0

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