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What Causes Swelling And Blue Discoloration Of The Toe After A Foot Injury?

Tripped 3days ago foot injured five toes bent backwards during fall,Swollen big toe and next toe along with blue purple brushing swelling also top and bottom of that foot, moving up to ankles and few inch s above F age 62 high blood pressure CHF1 early diabetics
Thu, 27 Apr 2017
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Hi there. What you have had is a bad soft tissue injury of the foot and ankle region. At your age the skin starts to become loose, so if there is an injury of the ligaments, muscles underneath the hematoma spreads towards all directions and this manifests itself as bruising with a black to blue color to begin with. As the days go by the bruising will subside and change color to green or yellow as the blood present in the hematoma gets broken down. The two main problems in your case is that you are a diabetic and have CHF as well. So please maintain a strict control over your sugars, take some bed rest for around 5 days. Keep your foot elevated over 2 pillows, apply crepe /compression bandaging to reduce the swelling and avoid putting weight on the affected foot to let the injured structures heal. At the end 5 days see how your problem is and whether it is still persisting. In that case get an x ray done and get yourself evaluated for the same.
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What Causes Swelling And Blue Discoloration Of The Toe After A Foot Injury?

Hi there. What you have had is a bad soft tissue injury of the foot and ankle region. At your age the skin starts to become loose, so if there is an injury of the ligaments, muscles underneath the hematoma spreads towards all directions and this manifests itself as bruising with a black to blue color to begin with. As the days go by the bruising will subside and change color to green or yellow as the blood present in the hematoma gets broken down. The two main problems in your case is that you are a diabetic and have CHF as well. So please maintain a strict control over your sugars, take some bed rest for around 5 days. Keep your foot elevated over 2 pillows, apply crepe /compression bandaging to reduce the swelling and avoid putting weight on the affected foot to let the injured structures heal. At the end 5 days see how your problem is and whether it is still persisting. In that case get an x ray done and get yourself evaluated for the same.