How Often Should The Medical Plaster Patch Be Changed?
Medical plaster can reduce inflammation and relieve pain, activate blood and remove stasis, clear the meridians, open the body and bones, dispel wind and dispel cold and other effects. It may lead to poor breathing of skin pores, causing contact dermatitis, itching, etc.
01. Can the Medical plaster be attached all the time?
Can the Medical plaster stick all the time? The answer is: No!
Because Medical plaster acts on the muscle surface, Medical plaster generally uses drugs with a strong smell, sticking to the body surface to stimulate nerve endings, through reflexes, dilate blood vessels, promote local blood circulation, improve surrounding tissue nutrition, and achieve swelling, inflammation and pain relief the goal of.
Generally, a dose of Medical plaster should not exceed 24 hours at most. After a long time, not only the drug has lost its effect, but also it is not good for skin health.
02. How often should the medical plaster be changed?
Medical plaster is a good external medicine for traditional Chinese medicine, but Medical plaster cannot be used casually. Many friends do not pay attention to changing it in time when they paste Medical plaster. One paste is two or three days, but in fact, this is not good.
The replacement time of the Medical plaster depends on the requirements on the instruction manual. In general, the Medical plaster needs to be replaced after one day of use, and some Medical plaster even needs to be replaced after half a day of use, so that the drug can be more effective, because during this time The skin has already absorbed the active ingredients of the Medical plaster, and if it is not replaced, it will not be able to obtain the medicinal effect.
When replacing the Medical plaster, pay attention to the cleaning of the affected area between the two replacements, wipe off the drug adhering to the skin surface in time, and let the skin rest for a period of time before applying the second patch.
03. What happens if the Medical plaster is stuck for a long time
If you do not pay attention to replacing the Medical plaster patch in time, it will not only be unfavorable to health recovery, but may also have certain side effects on the body.
If the medical plaster is used for too long, not only the active ingredients in it have been consumed, but also other ingredients in it may invade into the inner layer of the skin, causing contact dermatitis, and at the same time, it will be accompanied by intense itching.
If it is not torn off in time, it will also increase the burden on the skin and cause certain obstacles to the penetration of pores, thus affecting the health of the skin. Therefore, the Medical plaster should be torn off in time after being pasted for a period of time.