Hickey
A hickey (also hypobaric sugillation ) is a skin bleeding caused by negative pressure , which is caused by sucking or biting on erogenous parts of the body, such as the neck , which is usually meant to be tender . Especially in the years of first sexual contact - depending on the person wearing it and the originator - hickey are often embarrassments hidden with a scarf or by putting on make-up or trophies openly displayed .
Hickey spots appear like " bruises " when small blood vessels burst. The blood is then distributed in the surrounding tissue. Hickey usually only last about a week, rarely longer than four weeks. Like so-called “blue spots”, they go through different phases: from red to blue and green to yellow. Cooling with ice (e.g. cold compress) or gels containing dimetind accelerate healing.
Trivia
In 1983 there was the NDW hit Der Knutschfleck by the singer Ixi .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ HS Füeßl, M. Middeke: Anamnesis and clinical examination. Georg Thieme Verlag, 2010, ISBN 3-131-26884-0 , p. 111. Restricted preview in Google book search
