Sometimes human bodies struggle with various diseases, infections, and viruses, so they use inflammation as a defensive mechanism to protect the immune system. Inflammation is a response to the attack on the body from the outside and inside. During the period of inflammation, the number of “chemical mediators from the circulation system, inflammatory cells, and injured tissue” regulate the inflammatory response (Abdulkhaleq, Assi, Abdullah, Zamri-Saad, Taufiq-Yap, and Hezmee, 2018).
In my case, like all humans, I have faced numerous inflammations, most of which were acute, for example, burns or wounds. I usually have faced acute inflammations, and as an example, I want to describe the case that happens to me often: cutting my arm while cooking.
I cut my forefinger slightly, and as a simple acute inflammation, it immediately started after the damage and lasted for about four days. The next day, I observed several signs of inflammation, such as the redness around the damaged spot, tumor, and warm place around the cut. When I tried to move my finger, I felt a sharp pain at the fold of the nail phalanx right where the injury was. It was hard to make a fist or hold something tight because it immediately started hurting. Thus, because it was the moving part, it prevented the cut from proper healing.
The inflammation happened because I hurt the top layer of the skin, and bacteria with infection entered the damaged area. Thereby, the site on my skin was swelling, and the pain became more robust. Over the next few days, I took measures to heal the injury and disinfect and treat the wound so the inflammation has gone.
Reference
Abdulkhaleq, L. A., Assi, M. A., Abdullah, R., Zamri-Saad, M., Taufiq-Yap, Y. H., & Hezmee, M. N. M. (2018). The crucial roles of inflammatory mediators in inflammation: A review. Veterinary World, 11(5), 627.