Having a baby
is arguably one of the most beautiful feelings in the world. However, in order
to make each day of your baby, a beautiful one, you should have to work
hard. You might have warned your hyper
active kid not to create tantrum and settle with toys. However, that is sure to
have not reached his/her ears. It is quite natural that you undergo enormous
kind of stress and strain when your kid meet with accidents and resulted in
sprain and strain. There are some remedies that make you strong enough to cope
with such situations. First of all, let’s examine what is strain and sprain…!
Sprains occur
when the ligaments get torn apart (not exactly, it could also occur when they
are stretched too much). It can appear in ankles, knees, wrists, when they
accidentally get twisted. However on the other hand, strain appears as the
muscles that connects to the nearby bones, get stretched. The areas that are
mostly affected by it are neck, back, thigh, calf muscle etc. Though a skid
during one of your trip could cause problematic accidents, most of the time
they appear to be just sprain or strain. So, the most important thing that you
have to keep during this time is to have willpower and to aid your kid.
The following
are the most preferred methods during these tough times and please go through
them in order to support your child back to the normal ways. They are popularly
called the RICE method - Rest, Ice, Compression and Elevation.
Rest: The immediate thing that you have to follow, right
after the incident is to allow the baby to take rest. Even small movements of
the body can cause severe pain for the injured parts of the body. However, that
doesn’t mean that he/she should not be allowed to move a bit of his body. It is
just that they never use strained/sprained body part during the course of time.
Continue to take care of him like this way for the next three days.
Ice: Immediately after the incident occurred, icing should be
applied after keeping him/her in a resting position. The ice pack should be
applied on the injured part for at least 20 minutes and keep doing this for the
next three days as well. Why we are applying ice is because of that the cold
temperature, your baby’s chances of getting excessive pain, swelling,
inflammation etc in the injured part, on a low note. Besides, if it is torn
apart, this process will help you to reduce the bleeding.
Compression: The other thing that you have to
adopt while such an incident occurred is to wrap your kid’s sprain area with
something such as an elastic bandage, which can help you to prevent swelling.
However, you should also take care to not wrap it tightly. While tight wrapping
can lead to the stoppage of blood circulation and could lead to further
worsened state of affair. The wrapping should be done in such a way that it is
applied on the nearest position to the injury, and farthest from head &
heart.
Elevation: In order to prevent swelling from
the injured part, support the area with something such as a pillow, or anything
that comes convenient to you.
It must be
mentioned here that in order to get the injury healed, you will have to wait
for some time, say for a week if strains. Having said that the sprains take
much longer time period to get healed, you can expect anything between 2 - 4
weeks (at times). Though you might feel that your kid is alright now and won’t
suffer for more, it is always advisable to go and find the help of a physician
to soothe the injury completely. Such an aid from a distinguished person is
always welcome and can only lead your kid to a better position at the end.
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