The correct use of cotton swabs
May 13, 2019
With the improvement of the concept of health, many friends' homes will be equipped with some basic medical supplies for emergency use. In the minds of ordinary friends, cotton swabs are used for disinfection. Of course, some friends use it to lick their ears, make up, etc. However, what many friends don’t know is that if the cotton swab is not used correctly, it will bring about the opposite. Functioning. Below I will use my experience to teach you how to use cotton swabs correctly.
First of all, let me talk about the most basic use of cotton swabs: disinfection. Let's take the disinfection of the skin as an example. We need to rotate the disinfection in the direction of the part that needs to be disinfected, and the diameter should be more than 5 cm. A cotton swab can only be used once and cannot be recycled to avoid cross-contamination. The technique is as shown.
There is another common function in front of it: pressing the wound. There are two ways to press: one, usually pressed, pressed to stop bleeding. For example, subcutaneous injection (injection vaccination) and intramuscular injection (hip injection), the cotton swab can be pressed in parallel with the wound.
Second: vertical compression. Taking intravenous injection (mainly blood test) as an example, the general nurse's needle-handling method is: puncture the skin from above or to the side of the vein, and sneak into the vein along the vein. Therefore, after the needle is pulled out, it is a wound from the surface of the skin. In fact, you are two wounds. If the method of pressing is wrong, the color of the skin around the needle will appear cyanotic. In fact, this is caused by blood stasis in your skin. Don't worry if you encounter this situation. The blood will spread out in a week or so. At this time, your face should be pressed longitudinally along the vein as shown:
The time the cotton swab is pressed. The pressing time of the cotton swab after needle removal is also very particular. Generally, before the age of forty, the coagulation function is intact, and those who have not taken anticoagulant drugs can usually take about five minutes. People who are over forty years old, or who have taken anticoagulants, should be pressed for about ten minutes or longer, depending on individual circumstances.
Taboos pressed by cotton swabs. The most taboo after the needle is pressed is to take it up for two minutes and see if it flows. Under normal circumstances, as long as you press less than five minutes, the wound will bleed. And the act of picking up the cotton swab from time to time will only cause congestion around your skin and become a bluish purple.
Finally, I hope that my friends must standardize the use of cotton swabs in their lives to avoid unnecessary troubles. I hope I can help you.
