To prevent or reduce the upper extremity edema, the following recommendations:
Do not hand-held or hands are heavy, try not to do need to arm muscles so that the major King’s family on. Because the muscles energetically, you need to supply the muscles a lot of oxygen, this will cause a lot of blood into the arm, increasing limb of the blood and lymph circulation burden.
Usually regular activities arm should also do light housework or appropriate point of work. The arm as far as possible be placed above the heart of the position, such as with a few pillows to elevate the arm, but to pay attention, to support the entire arm up, rather than just support the upper arm. The need to pack collapse on her shoulders, they should collapse in the absence of that side of the shoulder surgery.
Feel shoulder pain, women should avoid using shoulder satchel. Usually as far as possible hand on the jacket or skirt pocket, this will relax the shoulders, arms and other parts of the muscle.
The sleeve holes usually not too tight clothes, bra’s too embedded in the shoulder belt does not matter where, if necessary, can be widened or add a liner tape.
Wearing rings, bracelets, watches should be more lenient as far as possible, do not let them embedded in the skin. Should also be taken to avoid arm and direct heat, such as hot water bath, washed with hot plate, a long iron, long sunbathing. Also draws attention to the blood circulation slow down when the arm after the arm, especially in the hands of a slightly broken skin injury, such as cut, split, burn, were thorns scratched and so more difficult to heal, if necessary, may be wearing a pair of work gloves. If the hand or arm held a small injury, it is timely to take disinfection measures, such as disinfection with iodine solution. To avoid unnecessary wounds, should normally be the side without surgery blood test, injection and infusion. Axillary lymph nodes under the region, not to subcutaneous injection, or acupuncture treatment. In other words, surgery that side of the upper limb as not to injecting drugs, otherwise they will increase the likelihood of edema in these areas.
In addition, in order to prevent the risk of edema, the best blood pressure measurement should be without the surgery there. Long as we persist in implementing these measures, there will be satisfactory results. However, the edema is still a tendency to persist. As long as we exercise the right and proper attention to the arm rest, allow 70 to 80% of the edema arm restored to their original. Further treatment is worn on the arm elastic bandage. To be used with caution to reduce edema of several drugs, because:
(1) The diuretic effect of drugs can not be long-term use, it will increase the cell tissue protein concentration, which we do not want.
(2) is recommended for the treatment of lymphedema of the cream or foreign agents, will have an instant cooling and cold pleasure, and thus feel little more comfortable. But for chronic arm edema, there will not be fundamentally improved.
Finally, the arm edema, to say a few question:
(1) arm lymphoedema occurs, the need for everyday life to make some adjustments, but there is no reason to lose faith.
(2) lymph edema at the beginning, they should take measures.
(3) Should definitely more severe edema, and shall immediately request medical attention. Limb lymphedema after breast cancer is a very troublesome thing, there were no effects of drugs and treatment methods, and now medicine has been aware of this problem. Some hospital for breast cancer surgery, if the sentinel lymph node biopsy was negative axillary lymph node dissection in general not do. In addition, postoperative radiotherapy is no longer part of axillary irradiation, these measures can prevent and alleviate the upper extremity swelling.
