You can get rid of bruises by icing the area as soon as possible after the injury. After 48 hours, you can apply a heating pad to help your body break up the trapped blood. Using an elastic bandage to ...

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There are few bodily injuries more relatable than bruises. At one time or another, virtually all of us have sustained this injury after bumping an arm or a leg against an object or because we've ...

Certain health conditions, medications, and even inherited disorders can cause random bruising. Consuming certain nutrients may help reduce your risk. Random bruising usually isn’t cause for worry.

Unless you encase yourself in bubble wrap, you’ll never be bruise-proof. But you can lessen the likelihood of a small bruise turning into a large one and help the black-and-blue fade quickly. Here’s ...

What Is a Bone Bruise? Bruises to your bone don’t always leave a visible black-and-blue mark like bruises to your skin do. Still, bruises that happen to your muscle and bone are very similar, because ...

The Gazette offers audio versions of articles using Instaread. Some words may be mispronounced. I wrote recently about hunger in our state and country. Now, another festering sore has been called to ...

Witch hazel is a natural topical astringent, which makes it great for treating everything from acne to hemorrhoids. Among its many other uses, witch hazel can also help you heal bruises faster. An ...

A bruise, also called a contusion, occurs when an injury breaks blood vessels under your skin. This causes blood to leak into the tissue beneath your skin, resulting in a visible blue-black spot. In ...

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Hickeys or love bites, often worn and flaunted as a playful badge of love, but sometimes they hold more risk than you'd expect. Hickeys are small bruises (suction purpura) caused by strong, prolonged ...