Relief for small outdoor injuries

Exercising outdoors is healthy and brings relaxation. This is especially true in the warm summer months, where, however, many untrained people are traveling. Then you can not always avoid minor injuries.

Blisters on the feet

Who does not know it? After a short time, a bubble has formed on the toe. Most are wrong and new shoes to blame. Especially women often pushes the shoe, because with them is often not comfort a purchase argument, but the appearance.

But also really comfortable gymnastic or hiking boots can cause blisters if they are not slowed down, but used for long walks or even hiking tours. Other hazards include wearing shoes without protective stockings, as well as sports that involve frequent changes of direction, such as dancing or ball sports.

Although bladders are not a serious condition, they can be the end of an outing or sport. With proper care, they will heal themselves within a few days.

However, if the stressed area is subjected to further pressure or friction, the uppermost layer of skin may rupture, leaving the wound area exposed. This also happens when you open the bubble. Therefore, experts advise against such a measure rather.

Helpful in any case, special blisters, which are essential on longer hiking tours in your luggage. The special gel pad protects and prevents sticking to the wound.

But now the situations are more common in which one has no such plaster at hand. Anyone familiar with medicinal plants can look for Breitwegerich. The grated leaves are best placed directly in the sock, so the exuding plant juice can provide the sore spot.

Compression, contusion and Co.

Especially with activities in nature, the risk of slipping and stumbling is great. Possible consequences are strains or bruises, in which the pain site swells up. The so-called blunt injuries, which mainly affect the joints, include sprains and bruises.

A quick application of the PECH rule usually prevents worse:

Pause:

immobilize the affected lot

Ice cream:

Cool with ice-cold water or a cold pack

Compression:

create a supportive bandage against the onset of swelling

High camps:

above heart level so that less blood flows into the area.

Anyone who has sprained their ankles should definitely keep the shoe on the foot and pour cold water over everything or dip it in cold water and then put it up. So the shoe immediately acts as a compress.

Also useful may be ointments, oils, gels or medicinal pellets with the active ingredients of arnica and calendula. They quench the pain and have a decongestant effect.

Effective for insect bites

As temperatures rise, more and more annoying insects fly. Danger exists especially for people who are allergic to insecticides.

Most annoying are the mosquitoes. They go hunting especially in the evening and at night. The females need blood for their eggs. Mosquitoes do not have a sting, but a kind of proboscis that contains no poison. However, the saliva that is transmitted during the sting contains proteins that can trigger allergic reactions.

The brakes, also called horseflies, also suck blood. They look similar to flies and are especially close to livestock, at the edge of the forest and in gardens. You do not hear and feel them - until it is too late. Their saliva often causes severe swelling and severe itching.

Bees are rather stocky, hairy in the middle and brownish on the abdomen. They only sting when they feel threatened. But then it can be dangerous: The sting remains stuck in the stitching point. The bee itself dies.

The wasp is about 2 cm tall as the bee. However, she has no hair and her abdomen is strongly drawn black and yellow. She stands fast. Your sting does not get stuck, i. she can also stab several times.

If an insect stings, there will be a painful, itchy or burning reaction at the injection site. Around it, a one to several centimeters large, shiny reddening of the skin, in the middle of the swelling, the so-called wheal, is.

In order not to aggravate the inflammation, one should avoid rubbing and scratching - in view of the itching many times a hardly followable advice. Cooling gels can be helpful.

If you do not have them with you, you can achieve cooling and soothing effects with tomato and cucumber slices. And these may be more likely to be found in touring luggage than the classic onion. This is placed freshly cut on the sting site - and also relieves itching and burning.