Costal chondroiditis can heal itself in a few days

For costal cartilage inflammation, some cases can heal by themselves, self-recovery, such as non-specific costal cartilage inflammation, generally self-healing time is about two weeks to a month or so. Usually actively pay attention to rest, strengthen warmth, prevent catching cold, prevent repeated rotation of the chest, can not work for a long time and lie down to sleep. You can use Chinese medicine to promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis for local hot compress and scalding, and use anti-inflammatory and analgesic drugs for symptomatic treatment. In most cases, you can get a good recovery. However, some costal cartilage is caused by bacterial infection. For this disease, active intervention is needed, and it cannot heal by itself. Otherwise, it will cause a large number of local soft tissue necrosis, which will cause a large amount of pus generation. It may also show systemic infection symptoms. Antibiotics need to be actively used, surgery is necessary, and it usually takes about a month to recover.