Cyanosis is blue lips in particular and the skin in general. To call this problem an independent disease is not entirely correct. The fact is that most often the disease acts as a symptom.
Causes of Lip Cyanosis
Cyanotic spots in this phenomenon can be formed in general throughout the body. But as practice shows, in most cases the nasolabial region suffers, the skin around the eyes, limbs.
As a rule, blue skin indicates irregularities in the blood supply, observed in diseases of the heart or lungs and characterized by insufficient intake of oxygen into the blood.
The main and most common causes of cyanosis of the lips are as follows:
- a sharp slowdown in blood flow leading to a jump in hemoglobin ;
- poisoning or intoxication of the body;
- congenital heart disease ;
- thrombophlebitis of the upper and lower extremities;
- pathological conditions in which there is a discharge of venous blood into the arterial bed.
How to treat cyanosis of the lips?
The choice of a suitable method of treatment depends on the patient's condition and the severity of the symptoms of the disease. In general, the appearance of cyanosis on the lips should not frighten. Especially in most cases, the signs of the problem are barely noticeable, and they are very quickly eliminated by themselves. As soon as possible, you need to seek the help of a specialist if the blueness has arisen suddenly and spreads too quickly over the body.
Before you start treatment of moderate cyanosis of the lips, you need to conduct a full diagnosis and find out what exactly caused this phenomenon. Only after that all the necessary medicines are selected.
The main manifestations of cyanosis are eliminated by oxygen inhalation. During the procedure, the body quickly enriched with oxygen, due to which it returns to normal.