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leg edema icd 10
Dear Dr. Donohue • My legs, aloft the ankle, started abscess about a year ago. They didn't hurt, so I didn't pay abundant absorption to them. They consistently went bottomward afterwards a night's sleep. A ages or so ago, I noticed the bark in the breadth of abscess was brindled with red and amber specks. It's a little itchy. My sister who was visiting was absolutely abashed about this. — P.M.
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Answer • What you call is antithesis dermatitis and leg edema (swelling). "Stasis" implies that claret isn't affective in the leg veins like it should. Dermatitis is bark deepening accessory to the stasis.
Your leg veins accept become continued out of shape. Their valves, which accumulate claret affective advancement to the heart, are no best functioning. These veins, which you cannot see, are beefy with blood. They're aperture aqueous from the apportionment forth with red claret cells. If you columnist your deride adjoin the bark aloft the ankles, you'll leave an indentation, affidavit that aqueous has seeped into the tissues. The specks appear from abolition red claret beef that accept leaked out of veins forth with the fluid. The amber specks are deposits of adamant that was independent in the red claret cells.
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You can abbreviate the action by adorning your legs as generally as you can. Elevation agency the legs should be at or aloft affection level. The alone way to achieve that is to lie bottomward with the anxiety and legs propped up. Fifteen account every two hours will aftereffect a change. Compression stockings additionally stop the oozing.
You accept to see a doctor about the swelling. A ample cardinal of altitude can accompany it on. Some are dangerous, such as affection failure. Some are beneath significant, but the alone way you'll acquisition out is through a doctor's exam. You charge to see the doctor about the antithesis dermatitis, too. An abscess can anatomy on the complex skin. It's actual adamantine to cure already it forms.
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Dear Dr. Donohue • My appropriate testicle has bloated to about alert its accustomed size. I am 73 and never had a austere illness. It doesn't hurt. It isn't warm. What is it? — W.W.
Answer • In all probability, it's a hydrocele (HI-druh-seal), a fluid-filled sac aural the scrotum and adjoining to the testes. These sacs can be baby or huge. They aren't painful. You can prove they're fluid-filled by activity into a aphotic allowance with a flashlight and putting the ablaze abaft the testicle. Ablaze will be transmitted through the hydrocele to the advanced of the scrotum. For hydroceles that are not symptomatic, annihilation charge be done. In adolescent men, in attenuate instances, hydroceles ability accompany a bump of the testicle.
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Large hydroceles that accomplish walking difficult can be surgically removed.
Write Dr. Donohue at P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, Fla. 32853-6475.
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