What should I do if my fingers are swollen and painful?

The health of fingers has a great impact on people's lives, because fingers can help people achieve various goals, and the health of fingers is very easy to be damaged. Once there is a problem, it will affect the whole life. For example, some people's fingers often feel swollen and painful, which affects their lives to a certain extent. Let's take a look at what to do if your fingers are swollen and painful?

If it is edema, it is basically caused by malnutrition. Therefore, when treating this phenomenon, we should pay attention to the role of diet. We can also do it according to the following methods:

(1) Strengthen nutritional supplements, adopt a low-salt diet strategy, and eat more green fruits and vegetables. This is one of the foundations for ensuring health.

(2) Pay attention to rest. After resting at night, the edema can be reduced or absorbed and disappear. Try to lie down as much as possible.

(3) If the problem is caused by impaired microcirculation in the hands, you can massage your hands more and exercise more.

(4) You can use 50% magnesium sulfate hot compress for 30 minutes each time, which is very effective.

(5) Physical therapy is more effective, such as heat therapy, massage, etc.

(6) If your fingers are always numb, it may be due to blood vessel blockage and poor blood flow. If there is no improvement in about a week, you should get checked for cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases such as high blood lipids, hypercoagulable state, or blood vessel blockage.

Here are some small exercises to treat swollen fingers:

1) Make your fist: Before getting up every morning, make your fist in bed. The speed should not be too fast, but you should clench your fist tightly. Do it 50-100 times a day.

2) Spread your fingers: Do this exercise before getting up, and alternate with clenching your fists. Do it 50-100 times a day.

3) Warm water bath for hands: After getting up, you can soak your hands in warm water for 20 minutes, and keep the water temperature at around 50℃.

4) Wrist flexion and extension exercises: Move your wrist joints after getting up. Generally, the number of times should not be too many, about 30 times is enough.

In addition, we should also consider the problems of qi and blood deficiency, liver and kidney deficiency. Generally, people replenish the body's yang energy by eating more red bean porridge or taking kidney-strengthening medicines. It is best to combine it with rest treatment.