Plasters and Casts

• If your child’s fingers or toes become swollen, painful, blue or cold, telephone or take him or her to the Emergency Department at once.
• Elevate the limb for the first 24 hours but do not let your child sleep in the sling provided.
• Encourage your child to keep all joints not enclosed in the plaster moving freely- especially fingers and toes.
• If the plaster is uncomfortable through being too tight, too loose or from rubbing, or becort1es cracked or broken, telephone or bring your child to the Emergency Department.
• Do not get the plaster wet.
• Tell your child not to walk on their leg plaster until they have been told to do so.
• Encourage your child to move their toes and/ or fingers and tighten their muscles inside the plaster.
• Your child should use crutches as instructed.
• Do not let your child put anything down the plaster.
• Make sure your child attends their fracture Clinic appointment.
• Continue to give them paracetamol (Calpol), every 4-6 hours, a maximum of four times a day, and ibuprofen, every 6-8 hours, a maximum of three times a day, if necessary.

If you are concerned, please return to the Emergency Department.