Diabetes foot lacerations are a result the effect of many factors related to the condition. Diabetes is a syndrome that affects every system and every organ in the body. The nervous, lymphatic and circulatory systems are often the first to take a hit when a person discovers they are diabetic. Often diabetes is not discovered [...]
Lacerations
Some of the worst injuries suffered in car crashes are those where the occupants were not wearing seatbelts. Deceleration injuries such as in motor vehicle accidents are very serious, and often fatal. Survivors of car wrecks often suffer broken bones about the face and facial lacerations. Often nerve damage is a result of facial lacerations; [...]
As parents we know that our children will run around and get hurt from time to time. Your children may be running and playing in the living room and one falls into the corner of the coffee table. As a parent the first thing you might feel like doing is panicking, but don’t do it. [...]
The winter months play havoc on the skin. The hands get dry and cracked, but even worse than the hands are the lips. As we crank up the heat in our homes to stay warm, the dry air pulls out the moisture in our lips; cracked dry infected lip lacerations are often the result. To [...]
Almost from the beginning of time people have been adorning their bodies with some sort of art. Todays world is no different. Until fairly recently, it only seemed to be a certain type of person that would go to extremes, such as full body tattoos, or body piercing. A not so new trend is coming [...]
Some of the most frequent injuries that present to hospital emergency departments are lip lacerations. Doctors must be very careful when repairing lip lacerations because we depend on our lips and the muscle structure around the lips for our expressions. We communicate nonverbally though many of our facial expressions; therefore, repair of lip lacerations can [...]
Quite often women who have birthed a baby will develop small postpartum vagina lacerations, as well as lacerations to the surrounding tissues of the perineum. The vagina is asked to stretch wide enough for the head and shoulders of an infant to pass through, which are the widest parts of the infant. In the beginning, [...]
The most common non-obstetrical vaginal laceration is caused by the females very first experience with sexual intercourse. The hymen, the layer of tissue that partially covers the vaginal orifice tears away and sometimes bleeds with the first sexual intercourse experience. This is normal and heals very quickly. Non-obstetrical vaginal lacerations can be considered fairly minor, [...]
