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Originally Posted by brizzad
soak the swolen area in hot water.. as hot as you can stand, for about 15 minutes.. this sort of "opens" things up, then immediately go and soak it into really cold water, this lets the swelling sort of escape through the "opening"
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you use hot and cold when you have an injury (usually in joints) to constrict the area and push all the old blood and fluid out and to open it up to force fresh blood back in. if the area he has is swollen due to an infection for example, all that will happen by applying heat to it is that it will be aggrevated and more painful and instantly become worse. but then again, anyone asking for medical advice on GFY should expect to suffer... and we should be allowed to see the pics!
