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We found about 110 results for Skin Injury
  1. Cut That Removes All Layers of Skin
  2. Skin Cancer Prevention: How to Check Your Skin Learn how to check your skin for possible signs of skin cancer.
  3. Skin Cancer Screening
  4. Skin Cancer: Preventing It and Watching for Early Signs Provides tips for preventing and watching for skin cancer. Includes protecting the skin, knowing early signs of skin cancer, and having skin exams.
  5. Pressure Injuries: Prevention and Treatment
  6. Pressure Injuries
  7. Protecting Your Skin From the Sun Covers possible effects of sun exposure, including sunburn and skin cancer. Explains UVA and UVB rays. Offers tips for children and adults on how much time to spend in the sun. Discusses protective clothing and sunscreen protection, including proper SPF.
  8. Caring for Your Skin When You Have Diabetes
  9. Caregiving: Skin Care for Immobile Adults
  10. Your Child's Skin Graft: Returning Home Learn what you can do at home to care for your child after a skin graft.
  11. Your Child's Skin Graft: Before Surgery Learn what skin graft surgery is and how to prepare your child for it.
  12. Fishhook Injuries Briefly discusses how fishhook injuries happen. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  13. Protecting Your Skin From the Sun Get tips on how to stay safe in the sun.
  14. Sunburn: Skin Types
  15. Nail Problems and Injuries Briefly discusses common nail changes and possible causes for nail problems, including infection, injury, health conditions, and medicines. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  16. Eye Injury: First Aid for Minor Cuts Learn how to clean a minor cut near the eye.
  17. Groin Problems and Injuries Briefly discusses groin problems and injuries. Looks at acute injuries, hernias, and rashes and at groin problems in children. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  18. Here's Help: Mild Head Injury (Bump, Cut, or Scrape) in Children Find out what to do and when to call for help when children bump their head.
  19. Puncture Wounds: Stitches, Staples, and Skin Adhesives
  20. Babies and Older Adults Have an Increased Risk of Cold Injury
  21. Care for a Skin Wound Learn how to care for your cut or scrape so it will heal and won't get infected.
  22. Eye Injury: First Aid for a Black Eye Learn how to treat a black eye.
  23. Alcohol Increases the Risk of Cold Injury
  24. Care in the Hospital: Preventing Pressure Injuries Learn what you can do and what your care team will be doing to help prevent pressure injuries during a hospital stay.
  25. Facial Injuries Briefly discusses common causes of minor and serious facial injuries. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  26. Male Genital Problems and Injuries Briefly discusses male genital problems and injuries. Looks at testicle, penis, and scrotum symptoms. Covers rashes and infections. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  27. Leg Injuries Briefly discusses symptoms of leg injuries caused during sports or recreational activities, work-related tasks, and work or projects around home. Includes bruises, swelling, sprains, pulled muscles, and broken bones. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  28. Facial Problems, Noninjury Briefly discusses causes of facial problems, including skin conditions and infections, and health conditions with facial symptoms. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  29. Leg Problems, Noninjury Briefly discusses symptoms of leg problems not caused by injury. Covers symptoms like pain, swelling, cramps, numbness, tingling, weakness, and lumps and bumps under the skin. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  30. Tuberculosis (TB) Screening
  31. Toe, Foot, and Ankle Problems, Noninjury Briefly discusses possible causes of toe, foot, and ankle problems. Covers symptoms like pain, cramps, numbness, tingling, and skin conditions. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  32. Taking Care of Stitches Learn how to care for your stitches to help them heal properly.
  33. Removing a Fishhook
  34. Finger, Hand, and Wrist Problems, Noninjury Briefly discusses finger, hand, and wrist problems caused by overuse or health conditions, such as arthritis. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  35. Mouth Problems, Noninjury Briefly discusses possible causes of mouth, tongue, or lip problems, including infections, sores, and health conditions. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  36. Electrical Shock or Burn
  37. Mouth Wounds: How to Stop Bleeding
  38. First Aid for Electrical Burns
  39. Burns and Electric Shock Briefly discusses common causes of burns, such as heat, chemicals, and friction, and the seriousness of burn depth and size. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  40. Marine Stings and Scrapes Briefly discusses the types of marine stings and scrapes and the reactions that can occur. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  41. High-Pressure Injection Wounds
  42. Torn or Detached Nail Learn what causes a torn or detached nail and how to treat it at home.
  43. Blisters Briefly discusses causes of blisters, including injury and infection. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  44. Needle Punctures for Health Reasons
  45. Breathing Smoke or Fumes
  46. Chili Pepper Burns
  47. Accidental Needle Sticks
  48. How to Stop Bleeding From a Head Wound
  49. Caregiving: Preventing Rashes in the Groin Area
  50. Home Treatment for Second-Degree Burns
  51. Other Home Treatment Measures for a First-Degree Burn or Sunburn
  52. Indoor Tanning: Is It Safe?
  53. Your Child's Wound Debridement: Before Surgery Learn what wound debridement surgery is and how to prepare your child for it.
  54. Your Child's Wound Debridement: Returning Home Learn what you can do at home to care for your child after wound debridement surgery.
  55. Scrapes Briefly discusses types of scrapes and how they heal. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  56. Tattoo and Piercing Safety
  57. Nervous System Problems Briefly discusses what happens when diseases or injuries affect the nervous system. Covers emergency symptoms like loss of consciousness, seizures, and confusion or behavior changes. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  58. How a Scrape Heals
  59. First Aid for Tar or Plastic Burns
  60. Common Questions About Giving Yourself Shots If you need to give yourself injections, or shots, at home, you may have some questions or concerns. You might need to inject medicine under the skin (subcutaneous). Or you might inject it into a muscle (intramuscular). Either way, these tips may help address your concerns.
  61. Preventing Blisters Learn how to prevent getting blisters on your feet.
  62. How to Give a Subcutaneous Injection Learn how to give an injection under the skin.
  63. Preventing Spider Bites
  64. Caring for Your Feeding Tube Learn how to care for a feeding tube at home.
  65. Removing an Object From a Wound
  66. Ticks: How to Avoid and Remove Ticks
  67. Caring for a Drain After Surgery Learn how to care for a surgical drain at home.
  68. Ultraviolet Rays From the Sun
  69. Insect Bites and Stings: Here's Help Take a minute to find out about an insect bite or sting and what you can do to feel better.
  70. How to Give an Intramuscular Injection Learn how to give an intramuscular injection.
  71. Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: Rash From Indirect Contact
  72. Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: Tips for Washing
  73. Sun Protection to Prevent Sunburn
  74. Caring for Your Child's Drain After Surgery Learn how to care for your child's surgical drain.
  75. Determining the Seriousness of a Burn
  76. Poison Ivy, Oak, or Sumac: What to Do First Learn how to wash so you won't spread the rash.
  77. Animal and Human Bites: When Stitches Are Needed
  78. Here's Help: Minor Burn in Children Find out what to do and when to call for help if your child has a minor burn.
  79. Animal and Human Bites Briefly discusses what to do for animal or human bites. Covers bites by adults and kids, dogs and cats, and wild animals. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  80. Acid Burns
  81. First Aid for Chemical Burns
  82. Estimating the Size of a Burn
  83. Here's Help: Mild Sunburn in Children Find out what to do and when to call for help if your child has a mild sunburn.
  84. Stopping Facial Bleeding
  85. Cuts Briefly discusses how cuts may occur and types of cuts. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  86. Alkali Burns
  87. Puncture Wounds Briefly discusses types of puncture wounds and the risk of infection. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  88. Jellyfish Sting: Home Treatment
  89. Preventing Flea Bites
  90. Caregiving: How to Help With a Sink Bath
  91. Diabetes: Checking Your Feet
  92. Diabetes: Steps for Foot-Washing
  93. Diabetes: Protecting Your Feet
  94. Care for Minor Burns Learn how to treat minor burns and prevent infection, and when to see a doctor.
  95. Insect Repellents
  96. Sunburn Briefly discusses the types of sunburn and other problems that might occur with a sunburn, such as heat rash or heat exhaustion. Covers what factors increase the risk of getting a sunburn. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  97. Diabetes: Daily Foot Check Learn why checking your feet daily when you have diabetes is important and how to do it.
  98. Diabetes: Taking Care of Your Feet
  99. Cold Temperature Exposure Briefly discusses types of cold temperature exposure and related symptoms. Offers interactive tool to help decide when to seek care. Also offers home treatment tips.
  100. Blister Care Learn how to care for your blister so it will heal and won't get infected.

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