Folk remedies in the fight against osteomyelitis. Local complications of osteomyelitis. Preventive measures to prevent the development of the disease

Recipes from the newspaper “Vestnik ZOZH”

Treatment of osteomyelitis with birch leaves
The teenager caught a severe cold in his leg, inflammation began, then his leg began to itch, so he had to see a doctor. At the hospital the abscess was opened, but a new one began to brew. They offered an operation, which the patient did not agree to. He was discharged home to poor condition. In the spring, when everything began to turn green, one woman offered him a folk remedy for osteomyelitis: collect birch leaves in a bag, put the bag on his leg and tie it with a rope. In the morning, the bag was removed from the leg - all the pus remained on the leaves, the leg was as if steamed and mobility was restored in it. Four such procedures were performed, and soon the patient began to step on his foot and slowly walk. After some time, the disease completely disappeared. (HLS 2011, No. 14, p. 30)

How to treat sulfur osteomyelitis
After a complex fracture (the heel bone was crushed), osteomyelitis of the calcaneus began. The patient walked on crutches for six months, then with a walking stick for 2 years. From time to time, exacerbations of the disease began, and she was in the hospital. One day she noticed that her roommate was taking pure sulfur for osteomyelitis - 1 tsp. every morning 30 minutes before breakfast, course one week. The woman decided to undergo treatment with this remedy, although she was afraid, and for two years now her heel has not bothered her and she does without a stick. In addition to sulfur, she also took propolis (60 g) with butter according to a healthy lifestyle recipe. She herself does not know exactly what remedy helped her cure chronic osteomyelitis. (HLS 2011, No. 6, p. 5)

Shilajit in the treatment of osteomyelitis folk remedies
The man had an accident and received open fracture shins. Bone osteomyelitis began. They cleaned his bone and gave him injections, but there were no results - the rotting process was ahead of the healing process. The temperature constantly remained around 37.2 - 37.7.
All his friends tried to help him and looked for folk remedies for treating osteomyelitis. A Tibetan medicine recipe was used. Take 2 g of pure mumiyo into a glass of boiled water, dilute until completely dissolved, you get a brown, cloudy liquid. Drink 1 tbsp on an empty stomach. l. The man needed 1 glass, i.e. 12 days of treatment. Within two days the temperature dropped to 36.6. The healing process went quickly.
If osteomyelitis is on the hip bone, then you need to dissolve not 2 g, but 7 g of mumiyo in a glass of water (HLS 2010, No. 3, pp. 32-33)

Chronic osteomyelitis treatment with ash infusion
A 5-year-old girl had osteomyelitis. My leg hurt from the foot to the knee. It was 1944 then. After some time, the wounds opened, through which the bones were visible. A friend recommended this folk remedy: collect the ash from heating the stove with birch wood, sift it, and dilute 1 handful of ash in a bucket of boiling water. When the infusion of ash has cooled down to a tolerable level, lower the sore leg into it and hold it there until it cools down completely. Do this until recovery begins. The treatment is long but reliable.
Then you have to take care all your life, keep your feet warm. This girl, having become an adult grandmother, walked barefoot on the grass, she had an exacerbation, a wound opened, after treatment with an infusion of birch ash, everything went away. (HLS 2010, No. 12, p. 33)

Osteomyelitis in a child - treatment with a mixture of aloe, vodka and honey + propolis
A 9-year-old child developed a tumor on his forearm and his temperature rose above 40 degrees. The child was admitted to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the bone. The bone was cleaned, the wound did not heal for a long time, the doctors could not do anything, they discharged me home. They were advised the following folk remedy for osteomyelitis: take 60 g of propolis, divide into pieces the size of a bean, and before breakfast and dinner, heat 1 piece in 1 tbsp. l. butter, stirring until the propolis becomes soft. Eat this portion warm 40 minutes before meals.
At the same time, we prepared the following mixture: 500 ml of aloe juice, 500 ml of vodka, 1 liter of honey, 200 g of fresh pork fat - place all this in a pot, cover the cracks with dough. Place in the oven to simmer for 4 hours. Apply this product to the wound, soaking a gauze pad. Take the same remedy orally - 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day. Within a week of such treatment, the wound healed.
The same folk remedy helped cure a man with a lung wound who returned from the Second World War. The wound constantly opened, festered, and blood often came out of the throat. He was bedridden for 12 years until he learned this recipe. He drank this mixture often and eventually lived to be 80 years old. (HLS 2010, No. 12, p. 33)

How to treat osteomyelitis at home with plantain juice
The man had osteomyelitis of the ribs. He was operated on 6 times, scraped and cleaned. As a result, half the ribs were removed and cartilage tissue. The wound in the side did not heal, it was constantly oozing from it. This man's wife decided that since external wounds can be treated with plantain, plantain can also be used to treat osteomyelitis of the bone. We bought 5 bottles of 200 g of plantain juice at the pharmacy, the man took them 1 tbsp. l. three times a day before meals. At the same time, for the treatment of bone osteomyelitis, I took mumiyo - 5 g per half liter of warm water, take 1 tbsp. l. only in the morning on an empty stomach. A bandage moistened with alcohol was placed on the wound. The wound healed and there were no more relapses. (HLS 2008, No. 23, p. 25)

Horseradish treatment
For osteomyelitis and small fistulas, you can use horseradish. Grate it and apply it to the fistula. It will burn strongly, keep it for no more than 30 minutes, otherwise there will be a burn. (HLS 2008, No. 3, p. 33)

Comfrey root in folk remedies for the treatment of osteomyelitis
Comfrey root (another name for larkspur) produces very good results with this disease. Traditional medicine uses it in different options. A recipe is often used when 1 tsp. The roots are simmered for 4 hours in the oven in 1 liter of milk. Take 1 tsp of comfrey decoction in milk. three times a day before meals 30 minutes.
To cure osteomyelitis, they also use a tincture of comfrey root in alcohol. Depending on the age and weight of the patient, take 20-50-70-100 g of dry root per 500 ml of vodka and prescribe 20-50 drops per 30 ml of water 2-4 times a day.
Additionally, comfrey ointment is used: 1 part by weight of comfrey root, 0.5 parts of pine resin, 3.5 parts of rendered pork fat. The mixture is kept in a water bath for 2.5 hours while stirring. The resulting ointment is applied to the sore spot 2 times a day. (Healthy lifestyle 2007, art. 8, no. 14. From a conversation with doctor, herbalist A. V. Pechenevsky)

Here is a case of how osteomyelitis was cured with comfrey. A 13-year-old girl in the spring, returning from school, fell into the snow, there was water underneath. She was very wet and frozen. As a result, I lay flat for two years - all my joints ached. Doctors recognized bone tuberculosis, but treatment did not help. Her parents took her to her grandmother, a healer, who recognized she had bone inflammation and promised to cure the child. The girl lived with her for 2 months and drank horse comfrey tincture, 1 tbsp. l. 30 minutes before meals. Two months later, a wound opened on my leg and began to leak. brown liquid, this lasted 6 months. Then the disease completely disappeared. (HLS 2007, Art. 8, No. 14)

How to treat bone osteomyelitis with Vishnevsky ointment
The girl fell and seriously hurt her ankle. Soon the leg became swollen and pain appeared. We consulted a doctor and were admitted to the hospital. Doctors tried to treat osteomyelitis in the child, periodically placing her in the hospital, but nothing worked - the bone was rotting. We decided to have surgery: clean the bone and inject some kind of filler. The child's mother did not agree and took the girl home. They began to treat osteomyelitis at home - at night they made a foot bath with warm urine, then they dried the foot and applied a compress with Vishnevsky ointment. In the morning they washed their feet. And so on for 10 days. The tumor has subsided. The doctors continued to insist on the operation, they again admitted the child to the hospital, took an x-ray and canceled the operation, because cartilage had grown in place of the rotted bone. To avoid relapses, it was advised to use birch bark: the most thin layer bark from young birch trees: the birch bark was bandaged to the leg for 7 days, then changed, this continued for a year, the leg never hurt again. (HLS 2006, No. 22, p. 9)

A decoction of nettles and currants for the treatment of osteomyelitis in a child
After the war, a 2.5-year-old child fell ill with osteomyelitis. The doctor said that the child can only be left at home and gave a prescription:
Take currant branches and nettles in equal quantities, fill the bucket 1/3 full, add 500 g of salt, add water so that the branches are covered, simmer in the oven for 8 hours. Pour this decoction into the bath and keep the sore limb there, massaging the places where the fistulas form. The child had 3 fistulas, for a month they carried out this procedure every day, the disease went away. (HLS 2005, No. 14, p. 30)

Treatment with fish oil
The child was diagnosed with bone osteomyelitis at 11 months of age. They performed an operation: they cleaned the lower leg from the heel to the knee. Then there were 2 more operations, and I was registered with a tuberculosis dispensary. An acquaintance once told how he cured chronic osteomyelitis - he drank 1 tbsp twice a day, morning and evening. l. fish oil, drinking chicken egg. The child’s mother consulted a doctor about this folk remedy, and he agreed to such treatment for osteomyelitis. At first, the woman gave her son a few drops of fat plus an egg, then increased it to 1 tsp. The child resisted at first, then got used to it. When there was a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office for conscription into the army, no traces of the disease were found. (HLS 2004, No. 1, p. 24)

Lye baths against osteomyelitis
Collect aspen firewood, burn it, collect the ash. Make lye from the ash: 200-300 g of ash in a bucket of water, boil, leave. At night, take warm baths for 10-15 minutes on the sore area, then dry off, get dressed and go to bed. Make baths every other day, for each procedure take a new portion of ash. In total, carry out 10 procedures every other day. If it doesn’t help, repeat the course in a month.
It is useful to take in summer sunbathing for sick bones.
It is advisable to drink the powder from eggshells.
After a lye bath, you can lubricate the wound with egg ointment: 1 fresh egg yolk, 1 tsp. honey, 1 tsp. melted butter, 1 tsp. alcohol, 1/3 tsp. baking soda, 10 g wax. Melt the wax, add the remaining ingredients, stir - the ointment is ready. After a bath of aspen ash, blot the wound with a sterile napkin and apply another napkin with a portion of ointment to the wound and bandage it. (HLS 2004, No. 4, pp. 25-26, 2002 No. 16, p. 17)

Chronic osteomyelitis treatment with onions
The man had chronic osteomyelitis ulna. The wounds either healed or opened again, and pus with fragments of bone tissue came out. Doctors occasionally cleaned the bone, but it didn’t help for long; the pain was constant. One day, during such a regular cleaning, a tendon was damaged and the arm stopped bending.
One late evening, exhausted from pain, he asked his wife to finely chop 1 large onion and scrape out a handful laundry soap. A compress was made with this mixture. That same night the patient fell asleep for the first time. Fresh dressings were made every evening. The wounds cleared up, grew over with new skin, and the disease never returned. (HLS 2003, No. 14, p. 28,)

is a serious disease that often leads to disability or even death of the patient. Favorable outcome the disease depends on the state of the patient’s immunity, the presence of pathologies internal organs and features of the inflammatory process. But the main thing is correct treatment osteomyelitis. How quickly the body will clear the infection, how much bone tissue will be destroyed, whether the disease will become chronic and will not cause serious complications depends only on well-chosen methods of therapy.

Features of the purulent process in the bone

Osteomyelitis is one of the diseases that is very difficult to treat. This occurs due to the characteristics of the inflammatory process in bone tissue. When microorganisms multiply, the volume bone marrow and spongy matter increases. This leads to compression of the blood vessels and disruption of the blood supply to the bone. Deprived of nutrition, large areas of bone tissue die, creating favorable conditions for the growth of bacteria. Sometimes the purulent process affects nearby joints, muscles, ligaments and skin.

Another feature of osteomyelitis is that its causative agent is most often Staphylococcus aureus, which is very difficult to treat with antibiotics. Sometimes the causes of inflammation are hemolytic streptococcus, Escherichia coli or Pseudomonas aeruginosa. When treating, it is very important to identify the pathogen, otherwise incorrectly chosen antibiotics will lead to even greater bacterial resistance.

Pathogenic microorganisms are often present in the human body, but they are not always the cause of osteomyelitis. The seriousness of the disease and the complexity of its treatment are due to the fact that it occurs against the background of a weakened immune system, viral or other infectious diseases, diabetes mellitus, tumors, and pathological processes in internal organs. Therefore, osteomyelitis develops most often in weakened patients, elderly people or children.

The last feature of the disease that explains why it is difficult to cure is the difficulty in making a timely diagnosis. On initial stages inflammation of the bone shows almost no effect, especially if the infection entered it from the inside through the bloodstream. Therefore, it happens that the patient does not consult a doctor on time, so the time required for successful treatment osteomyelitis, turns out to be missed - the inflammation becomes chronic. In addition, in some cases the disease develops rapidly: with high temperature, severe pain, symptoms of intoxication, disruption of internal organs. Without medical care, this course of osteomyelitis can lead to the death of the patient.

Competent medical care and correct positioning diagnosis are the main factors for successful treatment of the disease

What determines the effectiveness of treatment?

Only a specialist can determine how to treat osteomyelitis correctly in each specific case. Therefore, the effectiveness of treatment depends primarily on the patient’s timely treatment for medical care. Based on the examination and complaints of the patient, the doctor can make a preliminary diagnosis. This is especially easy to do in case of post-traumatic osteomyelitis, when signs of tissue damage and the presence of pus are externally visible. But to confirm the diagnosis, it is very important to conduct an examination. It includes blood and urine tests, as well as instrumental methods.

Modern equipment for hardware diagnostics, it allows you to determine the degree of bone destruction, the presence of purulent tracts, and their location. For this purpose, radiography is prescribed, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, scintigraphy, densitometry, ultrasound and other methods. To choose correctly antibacterial drug, it is necessary to examine the purulent contents for pathogens.

Objectives of osteomyelitis treatment

To more effectively stop the inflammatory process, it is necessary to immobilize the infected limb. This is especially important when there is a large lesion tibia, which is often subject to deformation. For this, corsets, splints or a plaster splint are used. The patient must comply bed rest, this will help him maintain strength to fight the disease, and also protect his legs from overload and bone deformation.

In any form of the disease, it is very important to remove the pus from the bone so that it does not spread throughout the body. This is done by surgically opening the bone, cleaning it and rinsing it with antiseptics. If this is not done on time, blood poisoning, sepsis and death are possible. Such complications occur especially often when bones are infected near shoulder joint.

For successful treatment, it is very important to open purulent foci in time and remove pus

Therefore, when severe course acute infectious inflammation Detoxification therapy is very important to cleanse the blood of toxins. This is, for example, plasma transfusion, hyperbaric oxygen therapy or hemosorption, ultraviolet irradiation or laser therapy.

Complex treatment of osteomyelitis must fulfill one more task - restoring the integrity of the affected bone. This is done after the inflammatory process has subsided and the infection has been destroyed.

During the entire treatment, it is necessary to maintain the patient's strength to fight the disease. For this purpose, various immunomodulatory drugs and means to improve metabolic processes, vitamin complexes, biologically active additives and folk remedies.

Basic methods of treating the disease

Osteomyelitis is a serious disease that affects the entire body. Therefore, its treatment must be comprehensive. Only when affecting the source of inflammation different methods the infection can be controlled. Therefore, a set of measures is most often used, which includes:

drug therapy;
dietary food;
local treatment with ointments and antiseptic solutions;
physiotherapeutic treatment;
traditional methods;
surgery.

If conservative treatment didn't help, apply surgery

If treatment is started in the first days of the disease, and its course is not severe, then it can be carried out at home. Therapy works in the same way. But in most cases, patients should be in a trauma or surgical department hospital. Constant observation by a doctor and monitoring the effectiveness of treatment using hardware diagnostics will help, if necessary, adjust treatment and also avoid complications.

Drug therapy

The main goal of treating osteomyelitis is to destroy the infection. The best way to deal with this is drug treatment. Appointed various groups drugs. But to destroy the infection, which is the main goal of treatment, antibiotics are needed. You can start drug therapy first wide range actions, then, after identifying the causative agent of infection, are prescribed special means. For osteomyelitis, the following drugs are especially effective: Cefazolin, Vancomycin, Fuzidin, Kefzol, Linkamycin, Ceftriaxone, Co-Trimoxazole. Sometimes, in severe cases, a combination of two antibiotics is required. This therapy continues for at least a month, often even longer.

To eliminate the effects of intoxication and the consequences of antibiotic use, detoxification therapy is prescribed. This may be the administration of saline solution, washing the blood with Ringer's solution, Trisol or Normosol, as well as the use of diuretics.

Required in complex treatment immunomodulators are used. They are needed to strengthen protective forces body, increasing its resistance. This could be Timolin, Amiksin, Thymogen. It is important to restore the intestinal microflora, which will help strengthen the immune system. For this you can use Linex, Bifiform, Acipol, Hilak Forte and other drugs.

Physiotherapeutic methods help speed up recovery

Physiotherapeutic treatment

After the patient’s condition has stabilized, the temperature has dropped and the pain has subsided, physiotherapeutic methods are prescribed. They are designed to stimulate blood circulation and tissue regeneration processes, prevent the development of contractures and restore limb mobility. First of all this physical therapy. You can start exercising shortly after your condition improves. But the affected limb can be loaded no earlier than 20 days after surgical treatment was performed.

Laser therapy for bone inflammation is now considered the most effective. In this case, special substances are introduced into the blood, which quickly penetrate into the purulent focus and linger there. After that they laser radiation are burned out along with cells affected by infection. This method is often used for osteomyelitis of the calcaneus.

Also effective for treatment drug electrophoresis, UHF therapy, ultraviolet and ultrasound irradiation, mud applications, paraffin treatment, ozokerite and other methods.

Diet therapy

For a patient with osteomyelitis, it is very important to adjust your diet. During illness, the body needs large quantities vitamins and minerals. Therefore, you need to include in your diet foods rich in calcium, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus. B vitamins are also needed. You need to eat more vegetables and fruits, drink at least 2 liters of water. And every morning drink a mixture of beet juice (2 parts) and carrot juice (5 parts).

In the diet of a patient with osteomyelitis, it is important to replenish protein losses. Therefore, it is necessary to include lean meat and fish, liver, eggs, and dairy products in your diet.

Baths and compresses from medicinal herbs effective in the complex treatment of osteomyelitis

Traditional methods of treatment

In the complex treatment of the disease, after consultation with a doctor, any methods can be used to alleviate the patient’s condition. Therefore, treatment of osteomyelitis with folk remedies is also often used. But it should not replace therapy prescribed by a doctor.

All traditional methods are used only as a additional treatment:

It is recommended to drink a tablespoon of fish oil and raw homemade egg;
pour 200 g of partitions walnut 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for 2 weeks, then drink a tablespoon of the tincture three times a day;
at chronic course diseases, you can apply compresses of chopped onions mixed with laundry soap to the affected area at night;
for osteomyelitis of the foot, baths with ash from aspen logs are effective;
an infusion of lilac flowers with vodka is used for compresses and drunk 2 drops per day;
An application made from this dough draws out pus well and promotes wound healing: mix liquid honey, rye flour, butter and yolks;
Wash wounds after traumatic osteomyelitis with juice from fresh leaves nettle or chamomile decoction;
apply a paste of crushed aloe leaves, this will help cleanse the lesion from pus.

To prevent complications, it is important to remove pus from the osteomyelitic cavity in a timely manner.

Surgery

Surgical treatment is necessary for osteomyelitis to cleanse the bone tissue of pus. This is easiest to do when all parts of the bone are affected. And when an infection develops from the inside, it is necessary to open the periosteum and expose the bone marrow. After removing the purulent focus and washing the cavity with antiseptics, a drainage tube is inserted into the bone to drain fluid and pus. Through it, the osteomyelitic cavity will be subsequently treated with antibiotics, accumulated pus will be removed and washed. This operation is called osteoperforation.

In chronic osteomyelitis, there is often a need for repeated surgical intervention. This happens if conservative treatment is ineffective, frequent relapses occur, many fistulas and sequestration are formed, and purulent lesions of soft tissues occur. In such cases, operations are more traumatic. For example, sequesternecrectomy is performed to remove all dead and necrotic areas. Sometimes it is also necessary to perform a resection - complete removal of the affected area of the bone and connecting its remaining ends with grafts. For this purpose they are used artificial materials or the patient's own tissue.

It is important to remove all areas of necrotic tissue and replace lost areas with grafts

Features of the treatment of post-traumatic osteomyelitis

If bone inflammation began after an injury, its treatment has some features. Post-traumatic osteomyelitis is characterized by the presence of a wound through which it is convenient to wash the purulent focus. In addition, fistulas are usually located around the affected area. Therefore, proper timely antiseptic treatment will help avoid the development of the inflammatory process.

After gunshot wounds and complex comminuted fractures, osteomyelitis develops most often. Treatment in such cases should be surgical. It is imperative to remove all bone fragments, dead tissue and foreign objects from the wound. The affected area is pricked around with antibiotics, and a drainage tube is inserted into the cavity. After this, treatment methods are the same as for other forms of osteomyelitis.

There are also special features in the treatment of chronic post-traumatic osteomyelitis. For a long time purulent process the bone is deformed, joint mobility is impaired. To restore the functions of the limb, osteosynthesis and replacement of lost areas with grafts are performed.

Treatment of odontogenic osteomyelitis

One of the most common forms of the disease is inflammation of the jaw bones. It often develops in children under 12 years of age. At improper treatment this leads to facial deformation, loss of teeth and other dangerous consequences. Therefore, it is very important to choose the most effective methods therapy of odontogenic osteomyelitis.

Treatment should be carried out in a hospital. The main method is surgical removal of affected tissues and teeth, washing the source of infection. It is necessary to create conditions for the outflow of pus and prevent further proliferation of pathogenic flora. For this purpose, antibiotic therapy, rinsing with antiseptics, and laser irradiation are used.

Incorrect treatment can lead to patient disability

Complications of the disease

If treatment is not started in a timely manner or if the treatment is chosen incorrectly, osteomyelitis can cause serious complications. This happens especially often in patients who are weakened, elderly, or suffering from pathologies of internal organs. All complications of the disease are very serious and therefore require immediate response.

What consequences can osteomyelitis cause:

purulent lesion of soft tissues – abscess or phlegmon;
infectious arthritis;
muscle contractures and joint ankylosis – loss of mobility;
spontaneous bone fractures;
malignant tumors;
blood poisoning;
heavy defeat kidney;
anemia.

Prevention of osteomyelitis

This serious illness very difficult to cure. Therefore, everything possible must be done to prevent the bone from becoming infected. To do this, you need to strengthen your immune system, eat right, and give up bad habits and play sports. After all, bacteria multiply best in a weakened body. It is necessary to treat all chronic diseases in a timely manner, as well as eliminate foci of infection: caries, sinusitis, sinusitis, sore throat, purulent wounds.
If skin damage or injury occurs, it is necessary to treat the wound with an antiseptic, such as hydrogen peroxide or Chlorhexidine. In case of a fracture, you must immediately contact a medical facility.

Osteomyelitis is dangerous infectious disease, which can cause considerable harm to human health. If treated incorrectly, it often leads to loss of performance and disability, and in some cases ends fatal due to damage to the kidneys, liver or other organs. Properly selected therapy is the main way to quickly restore the functions of the affected limb.

There are several ways a bone infection can develop.

Inflammation is caused by the following pathogens:

staphylococci;
streptococci;
salmonella;
hemophilus influenzae;
microbacteria tuberculosis;
coli.

Bacteria and viruses are less likely to cause osteomyelitis. They enter through an open wound, but very rarely.

Most often, infection with viruses and bacteria occurs due to the presence of a concomitant disease, such as diabetes mellitus, peripheral neuropathy. An open fracture doubles the risk of infection.

The risk group includes individuals with weak immunity, which is weakened by medications, poor environment, and poor lifestyle.

Recent surgery or injection also allows bacteria to enter, causing osteomyelitis.

Risk factors include cancer, steroid use, sickle cell anemia, human immunodeficiency virus, hemodialysis, injection drugs, alcohol, liver disease, kidney disorders, old age, malignant tumors, atherosclerosis.

Bone injury. As a result of this, in human body infection occurs. It causes the spread of a purulent inflammatory process that destroys the bone marrow.
Dental disease, caries, periodontitis, which are accompanied by purulent inflammatory processes, can go deeper, or rather inside the bone.
Injuries of a person with firearms that touch the bone lead to the onset of inflammatory processes and the appearance of osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis - symptoms of the disease

The first signs of osteomyelitis can be detected very early. These symptoms include:

Pain. It is so strong that it often develops into aching and unbearable. This state lasts up to several hours. Any movement increases the pain.
Temperature. The presence of temperature is the second symptom accompanying pain. In some cases, the temperature approaches 40 degrees with convulsions.
Blood test shows increased level neutrophils and leukocytes.

Typically, symptoms of osteomyelitis are:

Fever body is characterized by osteomyelitis, because inflammatory purulent processes occur in human bones.
The disease is accompanied by bone pain in different parts the human body, which become even stronger during movement and under load.

Who to contact and how is diagnosis carried out?

Surgeons and orthopedists treat osteomyelitis. Diagnosis begins with a complete medical history And physical examination patient.

During the history taking, the doctor asks the following questions:

How long have the symptoms been bothersome?
Have you had any surgeries in the last few years?
Where is the pain localized, where does it radiate?
What medications have you taken in recent months?

Afterwards, the orthopedist will conduct a physical examination and order diagnostic tests to confirm the diagnosis. A blood test is performed to detect the infectious agent.

If there is an infection in the body, the erythrocyte sedimentation rate and C-reactive protein will be increased.

Imaging studies will be needed to check the extent of bone damage. Such as x-ray, bone scan, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound.

In addition, you will need to perform a biopsy, which removes bone marrow from the damaged limb.

Studying the sample taken will help identify which microorganism started inflammatory process. This diagnostic point is very important when prescribing treatment.

Traditional methods of treatment

After a complex fracture (the heel bone was crushed), osteomyelitis of the calcaneus began. The patient walked on crutches for six months, then with a walking stick for 2 years.

From time to time, exacerbations of the disease began, and she was in the hospital. One day she noticed that her roommate was taking pure sulfur for osteomyelitis - 1 tsp.

l. every morning 30 minutes before breakfast, course one week.

The woman decided to undergo treatment with this remedy, although she was afraid, and for two years now her heel has not bothered her and she does without a stick. In addition to sulfur, she also took propolis (60 g) with butter according to a healthy lifestyle recipe.

She herself does not know exactly what remedy helped her cure chronic osteomyelitis. (HLS 2011, No. 6, p. 5).

Shilajit in the treatment of osteomyelitis with folk remedies

The man was involved in an accident and suffered an open fracture of his tibia. Bone osteomyelitis began. They cleaned his bone and gave him injections, but there were no results - the rotting process was ahead of the healing process. The temperature constantly remained around 37.2 - 37.7.

All his friends tried to help him and looked for folk remedies for treating osteomyelitis. A Tibetan medicine recipe was used. Take 2 g of pure mumiyo into a glass of boiled water, dilute until completely dissolved, you get a brown, cloudy liquid. Drink 1 tbsp on an empty stomach. l. The man needed 1 glass, that is, 12 days of treatment. Within two days the temperature dropped to 36.6. The healing process has proceeded at a rapid pace. If osteomyelitis is on the hip bone, then you need to dissolve not 2 g, but 7 g of mumiyo in a glass of water (HLS 2010, No. 3, article 32-33)

Chronic osteomyelitis treatment with ash infusion

A 5-year-old girl had osteomyelitis. My leg hurt from the foot to the knee. It was 1944 then. After some time, the wounds opened, through which the bones were visible. A friend recommended this folk remedy: collect the ash from heating the stove with birch wood, sift it, and dilute 1 handful of ash in a bucket of boiling water. When the infusion of ash has cooled down to a tolerable level, lower the sore leg into it and hold it there until it cools down completely. Do this until recovery begins. The treatment is long, but reliable. Then you have to take care for the rest of your life, keep your leg warm. This girl, having become an adult grandmother, walked barefoot on the grass, she had an exacerbation, a wound opened, after treatment with an infusion of birch ash, everything went away. (HLS 2010, No. 12, article 33)

Osteomyelitis in a child - treatment with a mixture of aloe, vodka and honey + propolis

A 9-year-old child developed a tumor on his forearm and his temperature rose above 40 degrees. The child was admitted to the hospital, where he was diagnosed with osteomyelitis of the bone.

The bone was cleaned, the wound did not heal for a long time, the doctors could not do anything, they discharged me home. They were advised the following folk remedy for osteomyelitis: take 60 g of propolis, divide into pieces the size of a bean, and before breakfast and dinner, heat 1 piece in 1 tbsp.

l. butter, stirring until the propolis becomes soft.

Eat this portion warm 40 minutes before meals.

At the same time, we prepared the following mixture: 500 ml of aloe juice, 500 ml of vodka, 1 liter of honey, 200 g of fresh pork fat - place all this in a pot, cover the cracks with dough. Place in the oven to simmer for 4 hours.

Apply this product to the wound, soaking a gauze pad. Take the same remedy orally - 1 tbsp.

l. 3 times a day.

Within a week of such treatment, the wound healed.

The same folk remedy helped cure a man with a lung wound who returned from the Second World War. The wound constantly opened, festered, and blood often came out of the throat. He was bedridden for 12 years until he learned this recipe. He drank this mixture often and eventually lived to be 80 years old. (HLS 2010, No. 12, article 33)

The girl fell and seriously hurt her ankle. Soon the leg became swollen and pain appeared. We consulted a doctor and were admitted to the hospital. Doctors tried to treat osteomyelitis in the child, periodically placing her in the hospital, but nothing worked - the bone was rotting. We decided to have surgery: clean the bone and inject some kind of filler. The child's mother did not agree and took the girl home. They began to treat osteomyelitis at home - at night they made a foot bath with warm urine, then they dried the foot and applied a compress with Vishnevsky ointment. In the morning they washed their feet. And so on for 10 days. The tumor has subsided. The doctors continued to insist on the operation, they again admitted the child to the hospital, took an x-ray and canceled the operation, because cartilage had grown in place of the rotted bone. To avoid relapses, they advised to use birch bark: the thinnest layer of bark from young birch trees: the birch bark was bandaged to the leg for 7 days, then changed, this continued for a year, the leg never hurt again. (HLS 2006, No. 22, article 9)

A decoction of nettles and currants for the treatment of osteomyelitis in a child

After the war, a 2.5-year-old child fell ill with osteomyelitis. The doctor said that the child can only be left at home and gave a recipe: Take equal quantities of currant branches and nettles, fill the bucket 1/3 full, add 500 g of salt, add water so that the branches are covered, simmer in the oven for 8 hours. Pour this decoction into the bath and keep the sore limb there, massaging the places where the fistulas form. The child had 3 fistulas, for a month they carried out this procedure every day, the disease went away. (HLS 2005, No. 14, article 30)

Treatment with fish oil

The child was diagnosed with bone osteomyelitis at 11 months of age. They performed an operation: they cleaned the lower leg from the heel to the knee. Then there were 2 more operations, and I was registered with a tuberculosis dispensary. An acquaintance once told how he cured chronic osteomyelitis - he drank 1 tbsp twice a day, morning and evening. l. fish oil, washed down with a chicken egg. The child’s mother consulted a doctor about this folk remedy, and he agreed to such treatment for osteomyelitis. At first, the woman gave her son a few drops of fat plus an egg, then increased it to 1 tsp. The child resisted at first, then got used to it. When there was a medical examination at the military registration and enlistment office for conscription into the army, no traces of the disease were found. (HLS 2004, No. 1, article 24)

Lye baths against osteomyelitis

Collect aspen firewood, burn it, collect the ash. Make lye from the ash: 200-300 g of ash in a bucket of water, boil, leave.

At night, take warm baths for 10-15 minutes on the sore area, then dry off, get dressed and go to bed. Make baths every other day, for each procedure take a new portion of ash.

In total, carry out 10 procedures every other day. If it doesn’t help, repeat the course in a month.

In summer, sunbathing is beneficial for sore bones. It is advisable to drink eggshell powder.

After a lye bath, you can lubricate the wound with egg ointment: 1 fresh egg yolk, 1 tsp.

melted butter, 1 tsp.

alcohol, 1/3 tsp.

baking soda, 10 g of wax. Melt the wax, add the remaining ingredients, stir - the ointment is ready.

After a bath of aspen ash, blot the wound with a sterile napkin and apply another napkin with a portion of ointment to the wound and bandage it. (HLS 2004, No. 4, pp. 25-26, 2002 No. 16, p. 17).

Chronic osteomyelitis treatment with onions

The man had chronic osteomyelitis of the ulna. The wounds either healed or opened again, and pus with fragments of bone tissue came out. Doctors occasionally cleaned the bone, but it didn’t help for long; the pain was constant. One day, during such a regular cleaning, a tendon was damaged and the arm stopped bending. One late evening, exhausted from pain, he asked his wife to finely chop 1 large onion and scrape out a handful of laundry soap. A compress was made with this mixture. That same night the patient fell asleep for the first time. Fresh dressings were made every evening. The wounds cleared up, grew over with new skin, and the disease never returned. (HLS 2003, No. 14, article 28,)

Only a specialist can determine how to treat osteomyelitis correctly in each specific case. Therefore, the effectiveness of treatment depends primarily on the patient’s timely seeking medical help.

Based on the examination and complaints of the patient, the doctor can make a preliminary diagnosis. This is especially easy to do in case of post-traumatic osteomyelitis, when signs of tissue damage and the presence of pus are externally visible.

But to confirm the diagnosis, it is very important to conduct an examination. It includes blood and urine tests, as well as instrumental methods.

Modern equipment for hardware diagnostics makes it possible to determine the degree of bone destruction, the presence of purulent tracts, and their location. For this purpose, radiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, scintigraphy, densitometry, ultrasound and other methods are prescribed.

To choose the right antibacterial drug, it is necessary to examine the purulent contents for pathogens.

To more effectively stop the inflammatory process, it is necessary to immobilize the infected limb. This is especially important when the tibia is affected, which is often subject to deformation. For this, corsets, splints or a plaster splint are used. The patient needs to remain in bed, this will help him maintain strength to fight the disease, and also protect his legs from overload and bone deformation. In any form of the disease, it is very important to remove the pus from the bone so that it does not spread throughout the body. This is done by surgically opening the bone, cleaning it and rinsing it with antiseptics. If this is not done on time, blood poisoning, sepsis and death are possible. Such complications occur especially often when the bones near the shoulder joint become infected.

For successful treatment, it is very important to open purulent foci in time and remove pus

Therefore, in severe cases of acute infectious inflammation, detoxification therapy is very important to cleanse the blood of toxins. These are, for example, plasma transfusion, hyperbaric oxygenation or hemosorption, ultraviolet irradiation or laser therapy.

Complex treatment of osteomyelitis must fulfill one more task - restoring the integrity of the affected bone. This is done after the inflammatory process has subsided and the infection has been destroyed.

During the entire treatment, it is necessary to maintain the patient's strength to fight the disease. For this purpose, various immunomodulatory drugs, means to improve metabolic processes, vitamin complexes, dietary supplements and folk remedies are used.

Osteomyelitis is a serious disease that affects the entire body. Therefore, its treatment must be comprehensive. Only by influencing the source of inflammation using different methods can the infection be dealt with. Therefore, a set of measures is most often used, which includes:

drug therapy;
dietary food;
local treatment with ointments and antiseptic solutions;
physiotherapeutic treatment;
traditional methods;
surgical intervention.

If conservative treatment does not help, surgery is used

If treatment is started in the first days of the disease, and its course is not severe, then it can be carried out at home. Therapy works in the same way. chronic osteomyelitis.

But in most cases, patients must be in the trauma or surgical department of a hospital. Constant observation by a doctor and monitoring the effectiveness of treatment using hardware diagnostics will help, if necessary, adjust treatment and also avoid complications.

First of all, this is physical therapy. You can start exercising shortly after your condition improves.

But the affected limb can be loaded no earlier than 20 days after surgical treatment was performed.

All traditional methods are used only as additional treatment:

It is recommended to drink a tablespoon of fish oil and a raw home-made egg in the morning;
pour 200 g of walnut partitions into 0.5 liters of vodka and leave for 2 weeks, then drink a tablespoon of the tincture three times a day;
in the chronic course of the disease, you can apply compresses of chopped onions mixed with laundry soap to the affected area at night;
for osteomyelitis of the foot, baths with ash from aspen logs are effective;
an infusion of lilac flowers with vodka is used for compresses and drunk 2 drops per day;
An application made from this dough draws out pus well and promotes wound healing: mix liquid honey, rye flour, butter and yolks;
Wash wounds after traumatic osteomyelitis with juice from fresh nettle leaves or chamomile decoction;
apply a paste of crushed aloe leaves, this will help cleanse the lesion from pus.

To prevent complications, it is important to remove pus from the osteomyelitic cavity in a timely manner.

After gunshot wounds and complex comminuted fractures, osteomyelitis develops most often. Treatment in such cases should be surgical.

It is imperative to remove all bone fragments, dead tissue and foreign objects from the wound. The affected area is pricked around with antibiotics, and a drainage tube is inserted into the cavity.

After this, treatment methods are the same as for other forms of osteomyelitis.

There are also special features in the treatment of chronic post-traumatic osteomyelitis. With a long purulent process, the bone is deformed and joint mobility is impaired. To restore the functions of the limb, osteosynthesis and replacement of lost areas with grafts are performed.

One of the most common forms of the disease is inflammation of the jaw bones. It often develops in children under 12 years of age. If treated incorrectly, this leads to facial deformation, loss of teeth and other dangerous consequences. Therefore, it is very important to choose the most effective methods of treatment for odontogenic osteomyelitis. Treatment should be carried out in a hospital. The main method is surgical removal of affected tissues and teeth, washing the source of infection. It is necessary to create conditions for the outflow of pus and prevent further proliferation of pathogenic flora. For this purpose, antibiotic therapy, rinsing with antiseptics, and laser irradiation are used.

Incorrect treatment can lead to patient disability

Chronic osteomyelitis is very difficult, accompanied by the formation of fistulas and sequestration, through which pus is released during periods of exacerbation. This condition requires exclusively surgical treatment, the choice of tactics of which depends on the advanced stage of the disease, the location of the chronic source of inflammation and the extent of its spread.

Surgical treatment is used for chronic osteomyelitis

Surgical treatment of chronic osteomyelitis can be carried out using the following methods:

surgery to remove formed sequesters and fistulas, as well as pathological granulations, followed by irrigation of the affected areas with antibiotics and their drainage;
resection (complete removal) of the damaged area of bone and its replacement with a graft.

Drug therapy

The main goal of treating osteomyelitis is to destroy the infection. This is best treated with medication. Various groups of drugs are prescribed. But to destroy the infection, which is the main goal of treatment, antibiotics are needed. First, you can start therapy with broad-spectrum drugs, then, after identifying the causative agent of the infection, special agents are prescribed. For osteomyelitis, the following drugs are especially effective: Cefazolin, Vancomycin, Fuzidin, Kefzol, Linkamycin, Ceftriaxone, Co-Trimoxazole. Sometimes, in severe cases, a combination of two antibiotics is required. This therapy continues for at least a month, often even longer.

To eliminate the effects of intoxication and the consequences of antibiotic use, detoxification therapy is prescribed. This may be the administration of saline solution, washing the blood with Ringer's solution, Trisol or Normosol, as well as the use of diuretics.

Effective and proven traditional medicine

Treatment of osteomyelitis using unconventional methods involves relieving inflammation, redness, swelling and sucking out pus.

Onion and soap

One of best recipes, is the use of onions and laundry soap.

So, a medium-sized onion is crushed in a blender, laundry soap (the size of a matchbox) is grated. Now mix both ingredients, apply the entire mixture to the sore spot, wrap it in cotton cloth and secure it with an elastic bandage.

The compress is done every day. It can be used on open wounds where pus is coming straight out of the bone and for simple pain.

In addition to various compresses, tinctures and decoctions, fish oil, ointments, baths, and gymnastics help well.

Recipe based on honey, rye flour, butter and yolk

There is another wonderful recipe for combating osteomyelitis.

To prepare it you will need:

100 grams of honey;
100 grams rye flour;
100 grams of butter;
1 yolk.

Before combining all the ingredients into a homogeneous mass, melt the honey and butter in a water bath and beat the egg. Now mix all the ingredients in one bowl and knead the dough.

Make a thin cake from the dough, applying it to the sore spot. The top of the cake is covered with a plastic bag and bandaged with a bandage.

The procedure is carried out before bedtime. The compress must be kept overnight.

This remedy gradually draws out pus and heals wounds.

Herbs for osteomyelitis

The disease will actually begin to leave the body if you use the following herbal recipes:

Depending on the severity of the disease, treatment varies from antibiotics to surgery. But you can cope with this problem at home with the help folk recipes treatment of osteomyelitis.

Take a small onion and chop it, then grate a small piece of laundry soap and add it to the onion, mix thoroughly. We put this whole mixture in a cloth or gauze and press it against the sore spot.

It is advisable to secure this compress. This procedure do until full recovery.

Also effective means for treatment of this disease are lilac flowers, sometimes they are superior in effect even expensive medicines. To prepare, we need lilac flowers, they need to be dried, poured into a liter jar and filled with vodka to the very brim.

You need to insist for no more than 10 days. When the drug is ready, apply compresses to the necessary areas of the body.

To enhance the effect, you can take the medicine orally 2 times a day, two drops.

You need a kilogram of honey, pre-melted in a water bath at 40 degrees. You also need to add the same amount of flour (necessarily rye) and butter to the honey.

Add 10 beaten egg yolks to this. Now you need to knead the dough and make a flat cake.

And put it on the sore spot, cover it with a bag and tie it. It is better and healthier to do this in the evening before bed and leave it overnight.

To achieve the effect, repeat this procedure daily. Little by little, all the pus will come out and the affected area will heal.

Fish oil

To completely recover from osteomyelitis, make it a rule to drink one tablespoon of fish oil and one egg every day, morning and evening.

You may not be able to drink the entire spoonful of fat at first, so start with a smaller amount and add a little each day. If it’s really difficult, immediately wash it down with an egg.

When you get used to this diet, add more ginseng tincture (a few drops at a time).

Aspen firewood must be burned to produce ash. That's what we need.

Place three hundred grams of ash at the bottom of a bucket half filled with water. The water needs to be put on the stove and heated until it boils.

After this, turn off and allow time for the mixture to infuse. Baths must be done in warm water, no colder than 38 degrees.

Dip the painful part of the body in water, the duration of this procedure is a quarter of an hour, best before bed. After the time is up, wipe your body and sleep peacefully.

This course consists of 10 procedures. The infusion must be made every time; it does not last long.

After such a procedure, it is advisable to use a special ointment, which can also be prepared at home. You need a fresh yolk, a small spoon of honey, the same spoon of alcohol and melted butter.

Add soda here - a third of a teaspoon and half a melted candle from the church. Mix everything and the ointment is ready.

The wound needs to be treated, smeared with this mixture and bandaged.

As an option for other baths, you can consider solar ones, if the season allows. Get out into the sun every morning before ten o'clock. Start with 10 minutes, gradually increasing the time spent in the sun.

Nettle and currant

You need a branch of currants and nettles 1 to 1, pour the grass into a bucket no more than 1/3, add half a kilogram of salt and water to hide the other ingredients. Place this mixture in the oven over low heat and leave for 8 hours.

Ready solution pours into the bath. There you need to lower the affected area of the body and carry out massaging movements.

It is advisable to take a similar bath every day until the illness passes.

Complications of the disease

All complications of the disease are very serious and therefore require immediate response.

What consequences can osteomyelitis cause:

purulent lesion of soft tissues – abscess or phlegmon;
infectious arthritis;
muscle contractures and joint ankylosis – loss of mobility;
spontaneous bone fractures;
malignant tumors;
blood poisoning;
severe kidney damage;
anemia.

Preventive measures

This serious disease is very difficult to cure. Therefore, everything possible must be done to prevent the bone from becoming infected.

To do this, you need to strengthen your immune system, eat right, give up bad habits and exercise. After all, bacteria multiply best in a weakened body.

It is necessary to treat all chronic diseases in a timely manner, as well as eliminate foci of infection: caries, sinusitis, sinusitis, sore throat, purulent wounds. If skin damage or injury occurs, it is necessary to treat the wound with an antiseptic, such as hydrogen peroxide or Chlorhexidine.

In case of a fracture, you must immediately contact a medical facility.

Osteomyelitis is a dangerous infectious disease that can cause considerable harm to human health. If not treated correctly, it often leads to loss of performance and disability, and in some cases ends in death due to damage to the kidneys, liver or other organs.

Properly selected therapy is the main way to quickly restore the functions of the affected limb.

Prevention of osteomyelitis is simple. Several rules must be followed:

Do not touch wounds and cuts with dirty hands. Treat them with alcohol or other antiseptics.
Fractures and injuries need to be examined by a doctor.
Pay close attention to your diet and your health in general.

Is it possible to cure osteomyelitis completely? A person’s recovery consists of several factors: age, immunity, stage and development of the disease, as well as the therapy taken. There are often cases when surgical intervention is necessary.

At the first suspicion of osteomyelitis, consult a doctor. Self-medication and the wrong approach can trigger the disease and worsen the condition.

Diet therapy

For a patient with osteomyelitis, it is very important to adjust your diet. During illness, the body needs a large amount of vitamins and minerals.

Therefore, you need to include in your diet foods rich in calcium, iron, magnesium, and phosphorus. B vitamins are also needed.

You need to eat more vegetables and fruits, drink at least 2 liters of water. And every morning drink a mixture of beet juice (2 parts) and carrot juice (5 parts).

In the diet of a patient with osteomyelitis, it is important to replenish protein losses. Therefore, it is necessary to include lean meat and fish, liver, eggs, and dairy products in your diet.

Herbal baths and compresses are effective in the complex treatment of osteomyelitis

Osteomyelitis is an infectious, purulent disease that affects bone tissue, bone marrow and periosteum. The disease occurs in acute and chronic phases, which can result in serious complications and even disability.

Signs of osteomyelitis

Two days are enough for the disease to develop; after this time, symptoms begin to appear to varying degrees. It is very important to pay attention to deteriorating health conditions in a timely manner and correctly approach treatment according to the doctor’s recommendations.

In the acute phase:

Body temperature 38-38.5, which lasts for a long time;
Swelling and swelling of the affected area;
Aching pain and aches of increasing nature;
The problem area has a red tint and is hot to the touch;
Abscesses appear with purulent discharge made of leather;
Movement is limited due to pain.

In the chronic phase:

Temperature 39-40, drops for a short period of time, then rises again;
The pain becomes more pronounced and constant;
The general condition worsens and intoxication occurs with nausea and vomiting;
Shortness of breath appears excessive sweating sticky consistency, chills;
Neurological disorders in which a person experiences prolonged seizures, becomes delirious, and may lose consciousness;
Poor kidney function with pain and frequent, small urination;
The pressure drops to a very low limit;
Paleness of the skin and area around the eyes.

Causes of osteomyelitis

The main provocateur of the disease is considered to be all kinds of staphylococci and fungi that have penetrated the bone tissue and provoke the onset of the disease. The most dangerous is Staphylococcus aureus. Its pathogenicity alone is enough to infect a large part of the bone, and develop the disease to chronic stage at a very fast pace.

Main reasons and factors:

Hidden, long-lasting infections;
Tendency to widespread allergies;
Weakened immunity, vitamin deficiency;
Harmful diets, prolonged starvation, sharp decline weight;
Neglected injuries, fractures, frostbite, burns;
Prolonged ARVI;
Excessive physical stress;
Long-term depression, stress;
Tuberculosis;
Ulcers of external and internal organs;
Impaired blood flow;
Sinusitis, sinusitis, sore throat;
Oncology and the consequences of chemotherapy;
Diabetes mellitus;
Flaw beneficial microorganisms in the body;
Unbalanced diet with a lack of microelements;
Limited physical activity;
Dental inflammatory diseases and destruction of dental bones;
Frequent surgical interventions.

In children infancy and up to three years of age, osteomyelitis can occur due to abnormal development and tooth growth, microbes from it penetrate the bone tissue and affect the bones of the arms and legs.

Folk remedies for osteomyelitis

Treatment of a disease always takes long time, usually with antibiotics, in the most advanced stages through surgery. Traditional medicine is an auxiliary source for eliminating or partially reducing pain manifestations, relief of fever and its consequences, as well as stimulation and strengthening of the immune system.

Aloe

Known for its healing abilities, and in this case, this is exactly the effect it will have. Sterilize the container in which you place the raw materials, pour boiling water over the aloe leaves themselves and treat your hands, squeeze the juice from the plant, and strain it through sterile gauze into a prepared container. Lubricate the affected areas with juice up to four times a day.

Walnut

Pour 200 grams of partitions from nut kernels with half a liter of vodka, preferably moonshine, leave for 14 days in a place protected from light, strain and drink 15 milliliters three times every 24 hours until you feel a general improvement in health and the pain disappears.

Birch bark

These are substances in the root part of the birch tree, they perfectly destroy toxins, relieve pain and spasms. Rinse the birch roots well and apply the part from which the liquid is released to the sore spot. There are no age restrictions for this method; even the youngest children from a month old can use it.

Lilac

Dried lilac buds or flowers need to be filled with vodka 1:2, and the jar hermetically sealed, leaving it for 2 weeks, filter the tincture through several layers of sterile bandage or gauze and use it for daily compresses until you feel relief.

Barberry

You will need the root of the plant, it must be thoroughly washed and finely chopped, then placed in a saucepan and poured cold water, boil for half an hour, cover with a lid and leave for six to eight hours. Filter and drink 10 milliliters each time before meals for three months. Store the prepared infusion in the refrigerator for no more than five days.

Healing cake

Heat 100 grams of honey, preferably May or buckwheat, in a water bath, combine it with one hundred grams of fresh butter or margarine, with the same amount of flour (rye) and the yolk of one large egg, mix until smooth. Next, you need to knead the dough well and roll it into a thin cake, apply it to the wound, cover it with parchment paper on top and secure it with a bandage. Apply the compress every day before going to bed, until pus begins to ooze out of the wound and it begins to heal.

Celery

Wash the celery leaves well and squeeze out the juice using a meat grinder or juicer, take in pure form 20 ml for three weeks.

Yarrow

Finely chop a heaped tablespoon of yarrow herbs and steam with 200 milliliters of boiling water, cover and let steep for 30 minutes, strain and drink the liquid throughout the day, dividing it into 4 doses. The course is several weeks, then a break of 5-7 days.

Compress

On a fine grater you need to grate a hundred gram bar of laundry soap and one large onion, mix. Place the mixture on a bandage in a thin ball and apply it to the wound, cover with cellophane and wrap it with something warm. Leave the compress overnight until relief occurs.

Healing baths

Pour two liters of water at room temperature into 300-500 grams of oak bark, put on fire until it boils, cover with a lid and leave for 15 minutes. Pour the strained infusion into the filled one, hot bath and spend 20 minutes in such water. This procedure is enough 2-3 times a week.
Finely chop the calamus root and mix with 2.5 liters of water, boil, strain, take a bath according to the scheme previous recipe no more than half an hour.
Place a kilogram of clean chestnuts in 5 liters of water, put on high heat and boil for another 40 minutes after boiling, pour the strained broth immediately from the heat into a bath of water and sit in it for 20 minutes. Do it no more than twice every 10 days.

Fish oil

Beat a tablespoon of fish oil + one egg (raw) + 4 drops of ginseng in the form of a tincture until smooth. Drink in the morning on an empty stomach for the first week, then for another 2 weeks in the morning and before bed.

Currants with nettles

We place equal quantities of currant branches and nettle leaves in a ten-liter bucket, add 0.5 kilograms of coarse salt and fill it to the top with warm, boiled water, simmer over low heat for 7-8 hours. Filter the solution, divide into two parts, then mix one part of the solution with an equal volume of boiling water and steam the affected part in this water for 10 minutes. Repeat every day until symptoms disappear.

Plantain

You can buy ready-made juice at the pharmacy, or make it yourself by squeezing the leaves. You need to take it 1 teaspoon before breakfast, lunch, dinner, the course is individual.

In addition, you can make compresses from Vishnevsky's liniment for 10 days at night; to do this, you need to apply the ointment to the sore spot, put a bandage and film on top, and be sure to wash off the remaining liniment in the morning.

Consequences of osteomyelitis

Complications can be completely different and spread throughout the body and organism. Consequences can occur when the disease does not respond to timely treatment:

Abscesses of any kind soft fabric with a purulent accumulation that extends beyond the bones.
Arthritis, in which pus is released from the inflamed joint with a characteristic, pungent odor in the osteomyelitic lesion itself, as well as in the area around it.
Bones may stop growing and become deformed, this is more true for children under and school age.
Impaired mobility due to scars and pus in the muscle tissue.
Spontaneous fractures, even as a result of the slightest load, occur due to the lack of strength of the bones and their tissues.
Advanced articular arthritis, which can lead to complete immobilization of a person.
Development of oncological, malignant tumors.
Infection of the entire blood system of the body.
Anemia, subsequently prolonged inflammation.
Acute inflammation and kidney disease - amyloidosis, often untreatable

Prevention of osteomyelitis

The process of treating osteomyelitis can be considered complete only if after several years there has been no relapse, which is why you should be as attentive as possible to your body, even if one or more symptoms of this problem appear for the first time or repeatedly. After all, everyone knows that preventing a disease is easier than treating it:

Don't self-medicate! If you see that something wrong is happening to you, immediately consult a doctor, and already having his conclusions and recommendations in hand, you can add something from the recipes of our grandmothers to the complex.
Be active and lead a healthy lifestyle.
Make sure that your sleep is complete and your rest is pleasant.
Avoid irritability and stressful situations.
Stick to it balanced nutrition by eating the right amount of fats, proteins and carbohydrates.
Take vitamins and immunostimulating medications.
Do not start any infectious foci - sinusitis, sore throat, caries...
For injuries or bruises that are accompanied by swelling and severe pain, be sure to consult a doctor.
Remember that a temperature of 38 degrees or more, which does not go down for several days, is the first sign of the presence serious problems with the body. Therefore, visiting a doctor and examination cannot be postponed.
Any wounds, even the smallest cuts, must be treated properly to avoid infection, and also ensure that the affected part has as little contact as possible with sources of infections and microorganisms.

Osteomyelitis belongs to the series serious illnesses with dire consequences that require not only a competent approach from the doctor, but also considerable effort on the part of the patient himself. Maintain balance and balance in your physical and emotional state, only in this case the risk and likelihood of contracting such a serious diagnosis is reduced. Be healthy!

Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone marrow, although this name usually refers to inflammation of all layers of bone.

Osteomyelitis is caused by pyogenic microbes that can be introduced into the bone marrow tissue by the blood flow from foci of purulent infection in the body (for example, with sore throat or furunculosis). The onset of the disease can be triggered by hypothermia, overwork or injury.

Osteomyelitis is an inflammation of the bone marrow.

This disease is a purulent inflammatory process localized in the bone marrow and gradually spreading to the surrounding tissue. The cause of pathological process Secondary infection usually occurs in the presence of a tooth affected by caries.

The first symptoms of trouble are sharp increase body temperature, severe redness and swelling of the gums over the affected bone, severe pain in a carious tooth. As the disease progresses, pus begins to accumulate under the gum, causing the surrounding tissue to melt.

Spontaneous opening of an abscess into the oral cavity often occurs.

Treatment of osteomyelitis is carried out using complex methods. After detection and removal primary focus infections, surgical cleaning of the affected area is performed, followed by antiseptic treatment, the patient is prescribed broad-spectrum antibiotics to prevent spread pathogenic microorganisms.

Osteomyelitis is classified due to its occurrence in:

1. odontogenic, that is, resulting from the penetration of infection from the tooth;

2. hematogenous, that is, resulting from the spread of infection to the bone through the bloodstream;

3. gunshot, that is, resulting from a bullet wound;

4. post-traumatic, that is, caused by bone injury.

Causes of the disease

1. Foci of purulent infection in the body.

2. Injuries and bone fractures.

3. Gunshot wounds with bone damage.

4. Purulent inflammation tooth and periodontal.

Manifestations of the disease consist of symptoms of intoxication and affected bone. Symptoms of intoxication include a sharp increase in body temperature, general weakness, increased fatigue and irritability. In the limb with the affected bone, movements are sharply limited, redness and swelling are noted above the osteomyelitis zone. When palpated, there is pain and a local increase in temperature.

Diagnosis of osteomyelitis includes:

1. examination, collection of complaints and history of the development of the disease;

2. laboratory and instrumental research methods: general analysis blood, medullary canal puncture and bone and marrow biopsy. As well as radiography, radioisotope scanning and bone tomography.

Treatment of osteomyelitis must be carried out in a hospital. The patient is prescribed strict bed rest and immobilization of the affected limb. From medications Antibiotics play a major role. If there is no expected effect from therapy, the patient is prescribed surgical treatment.

The prognosis for osteomyelitis is ambiguous. It is most favorable when complete removal affected bone.

Specific prevention no disease.

Symptoms: general malaise appears, headache, pain and aches in the joints, temperature rises to 40 ° C and is accompanied by chills, pulse quickens, consciousness darkens. On the third day, pain, swelling and redness of the skin appear in the area of the affected bone. When pus breaks out, the temperature drops and general condition the body is improving.

What's happening? Osteomyelitis is divided into acute and chronic. Acute osteomyelitis is characterized by the spread of suppuration to the joint. In this case, circulatory disorders and blockage, or thrombosis, of blood vessels occur in the inflamed bone. The bone deprived of nutrition becomes dead, and the dead areas are gradually rejected, forming so-called sequestra, around which, as a rule, a bone capsule is formed. The process of formation of sequesters and capsules can last for years. Start acute osteomyelitis occurs as a sudden general infectious disease, most often after hypothermia or bruise. Chronic form Osteomyelitis usually develops from acute osteomyelitis and is characterized by the presence of a fistula. During the flow of pus, the condition is close to normal, and with short-term blockages of the fistula, fever begins, accompanied by pain. After an exacerbation, the fistula opens again.

What to do? Treatment of osteomyelitis is carried out only under the supervision of a doctor, often - surgical methods(removal of sequesters).

Recipes. Traditional medicine for the treatment of osteomyelitis recommends aloe juice in the form of lotions and washing the fistula tracts during the period of scarring with juice from fresh nettle leaves.

1. Aloe arborescens. Aloe juice is used in the form of lotions.

2. Stinging nettle. During the period of scarring, the fistula tracts are washed with juice from fresh leaves.