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What Causes Swelling And Soreness In The Finger Pricked By The Thorn?
Was pulling up a tree/tall/bush that fell during a storm, it s a pretty tall thing but with thorns, grabbing a branch to pull the tree up , I got stuck by a thorn, now 24 hrs later very sore and finger is swollen ( not bad but can t see normal wrinkles like you do in fingers, and can t close my hand completely either. ( swollen from the knukle up
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Mon, 14 Jul 2014
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Swelling is a normal body response called inflammation to any injury.It usually increases first before it subsides.But with a cut on the skin you have to be cautious it doesn't get infected.Make sure you washed carefully.If it starts getting very read and does not start subsiding in a day or so then you need to get checked and start antibiotics.Also remember to get tetanus vaccine if you are not uptodate
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it is foreign material and it is organic matter type so mostly triggers infection and due to effusion of blood cells due to immune system activation u may get swelling if pus is doing thru that better tak antibiotic
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