What is the best way to get rid of a black eye?
Head trauma near the eye should always be treated immediately with a cold compress to help prevent swelling and a black eye. If you have children, you should certainly be familiar with this part of the treatment for a black eye. If you’re single, put the raw steak down, that’s an old wives’ tale. Ice in a towel will work just fine to help reduce swelling around the eye by constriction the blood vessels (capillaries) in the sensitive tissue that surrounds your eye. 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off: do this for a day or two. Administer a pain reliever with acetaminophen and caffeine immediately to help reduce pain and the chances of getting a black eye. You will want to administer acetaminophen with caffeine (tension headache or migraine formulas have caffeine) immediately because caffeine is a vasoconstrictor, a chemical that causes your blood vessels to constrict. You want to reduce the amount of blood that can reach the damaged area at first because blood will simply seep out of the dama
Hi janedoe2… The first step in dealing with a black eye is to minimize the swelling. Black eyes occur when some outside force causes contusions in the tiny blood vessels surrounding the eye. By keeping the swelling at a minimum, the vessels can begin to heal more quickly. A time honored means of dealing with swelling is to apply something cold to the black eye for a period of ten minutes, wait fifteen minutes, and apply a second round of cold compresses. Repeating this process several times over the first few hours after the incident that caused the black eye will make a huge difference in the severity of the damage. Choosing a cold medium for application to the black eye is easy. Many people swear by a frozen sirloin steak. Other people will use an ice pack, or even grab a bag of frozen vegetables from the freezer. All of these choices are perfectly acceptable, and will work equally well. One factor to keep in mind is to avoid any sharp edges coming in contact with the area around t
