Ice it. Ice your injury for 20 to 30 minutes every 3 to 4 hours to reduce pain and swelling. Continue this for 2 or 3 days, or until the pain is gone. Compress your leg. Use an elastic bandage around the lower leg and ankle to keep down swelling.
Finally, two terms you may run across in the future are oxidizing agent (or oxidant) and a reducing agent (reductant). An oxidizing agent causes oxidation and is reduced in the reaction. A reducing agent causes the reduction in the redox reaction. The reducing agent is oxidized in the reaction.
A substance that oxidizes another substance Any chemical substance that has a tendency to accept electrons and thereby undergoing reduction themselves is known as an oxidisiâ¦ng agent. An oxidizer is a compound that supplies its own oxygen and heat when in contact with organic compounds. These chemicals that can react vigorously and explode. Oxidizers are compounds which are capable of reacting with and oxidizing (i.e., giving off oxygen) other materials. A well known example of oxidation is the process we know as corrosion, where the metal reacts with air to form the metal oxides referred to as rust.