The child’s foot sprained, you can improve the flat film to help diagnose whether there is a fracture, generally can take hot and cold compresses, drug intervention, surgical intervention treatment.
1. Hot and cold compresses: If the child’s local foot sprain, just local soft tissue contusion, inflammatory oozing and swelling, you can use a towel wrapped in ice to local cold compresses, which can promote local vasoconstriction and improve the symptoms of oozing. After 72 hours of cold compresses, hot water bags can be used to apply hot compresses to the local area, which can promote local blood circulation and improve the swelling.
2. Pharmacological intervention: If the child local sprain, swelling is more serious, can cooperate with the doctor to apply local Yunnan Baiyao aerosol, swelling and pain tincture and other medication, can play a role in reducing swelling, pain.
3. Surgical intervention: if the foot sprain has a fracture, should also be photographed to rule out the existence of fracture, if the stability of the fracture. If the fracture is stable, it can be treated with cast external fixation. If the fracture is unstable, you should also cooperate with the doctor to give surgery to local incision for immobilization treatment.
It is recommended that the child foot sprain, should be combined with their own situation, with the doctor to do targeted treatment, to reduce the adverse effects of foot sprain.