How do I treat black and blue bruises?

I hurt my arm badly yesterday, and I now have 2 bruises (front and back) on my arm. My whole arm feels sore, and the bruises have red dots on it (usually happens when the bruise is really bad). What are ways that I can reduce the bruise? People say that when you don't treat the bruise quickly, they'll re-appear in your later days- permanently. It really hurts and I just want to know how I can treat it. My mother suggested rubbing a boiled egg over it for a few minutes.

You can't make a bruise go away or anything like that. A bruise is broken vessels underneath the skin bleeding. That's what causes the bruise. I've never heard of if you don't treat a bruise they reappear. I'm thinking that's a myth. But if you have swelling you can take care of that by icing the injured area for 20 minutes on 20 minutes off for the next two hours. But nothing is going to make a bruise go away, it will go away on it's on.

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