Why Do you Ice For Swelling and Take Tylenol for Fevers?

Question:

Why does everyone always say "ICE DOWN THAT INJURY YOU DONT WANT SWELLING" or "TAKE TYLENOL, YOU HAVE A 100 DEGREE FEVER" Arent these the body's way of healing itself? I understand extreme swelling could be bad, and an extreme fever could kill you. Or swelling after surgery is bad, i get that. But if you jam a finger. Or a 100 degree temperature. Arent you just prolonging the body from getting healthy. The fever kills off the bad stuff by raising the body temp, and dosent the swelling help aswell. Its our bodies natural defense, why are we trying to mess with it?

Answers:
Ice stops the swelling by shrinking the blood vessels in the injured area. Some of these vessels have been injured and are leaking blood. That's what the swelling is. If you contain the blood leakage, there will be much less repair work to be done-by your body-on the injured area. The black and blue ? that's the dead blood that needs to be removed from the cells-its poison to your body-and is rotting right there in your cells. SO if you ice it right away, you will not swell up and get black and blue. Oh yeah, did I mention that the time ti heal the injury is way less if it doesn't swell-hurts less too.I would ice down someone with a fever as well.

You want to decrease the temp w/ Tylenol if adult's temp goes over 102F (for kids: I think it's 101F or 100.5F). You dno't want your body cells to get fried, and certainly you don't want to experience seizures after the frying stage.

It depends on what kind of injury and the body location - ice facilitates healing.

Why Do you Ice For Swelling and Take Tylenol for Fevers?

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