Uh oh..... sprain or break?

Kryssi has hurt her forearm and I'm trying to figure if I am being paranoid or if we should get it checked out. (Why do medical things always occur on the weekends???) After a lot of cuddles, she is chatting and eating lunch but she is definitely favouring her arm and only using it by accident. She can wriggle her fingers but when she moves around/changes position on my lap, she cries and says it is hurting again.

There are no physical signs - no swelling or bruising or even a temperature - so how do I know whether it is a sprain or not?

I'd go to the doc just to be on the safe side, good luck.

that thing about it not being broken if they can wiggle their fingers is a complete crock. jake could wiggle - and his elbow was fractured. he was very similiar to kryssi. A and E. if she can grizzle a bit they often move up to a more urgent list.

Oh poor wee Kryssi, I hope she is ok.

Oh - I hope all is ok - same thing happened to my daughter last week! Hers is a greenstick fracture and now has a nice cast to show for it!!! Its always better just to get things checked i think!

Okay, now I'm rather frustrated. The dr thinks it is a sprain in her elbow so has sent her home with iBuprofen. We are to watch it in the next couple of days and if it still seems a problem, take her back for an x-ray. How stupid! Why didn't they just x-ray while we were there?! *rolls eyes in disgust* What a waste of time that was.

I haven't tried that Shannon and she's just gone to bed, but I suspect it does hurt her to turn. It certainly hurts her when we gently turn her hand to look at the inside of her wrist. After being at the dr's tonight she has tried to pick up a couple of things off the floor and she does that and carries them to us with her palm down - just holding in between her fingers. It causes her a lot of pain though and that was just with a crayon.

I didn't realise that the fractures get easier to see in time. Maybe that's the plan of attack also. Apparently she went into shock (crying and shaking) when the dr examined her tonight and the dr said "she is definitely in pain" (insert sarcastic remark here).

*sigh* I'm not sure that I really want a cast and a newborn in the house in the same week though!!

that sucks teresa. Also, depending on where it's broken (and in my doctoryly advice, i think it is), you may not get a cast. Jake didn't and at the time I thought it was A and E being slack, but turns out they weren'[t.

Well, I was so sure last night that K's arm was broken - somewhere - especially after she woke around 2am unable to settle. I spent two hours just cuddling/rocking her between 2.30 and 4.30am, mostly because she couldn't get her suckly finger in her mouth

This morning she woke up still with a limp arm and crying but she wasn't as upset as yesterday.... a few hours later she was using her arm just as usual. So thankfully, the dr yesterday actually was right and it's okay. Phew!!

(Incidentally we were back at the dr's today for Briona - tonsil infection - and it was the same dr as at after hours yesterday. She said she was still thinking about Kryssi last night and was going to get our nurse to phone us today to see how she was...... so she was very pleased to see Kryssi today, using all limbs liberally.)

Crisis over, yay! Must be my turn next

Pass!

Janine, I wasn't planning a trip to the hospital on account of a broken bone.... but on account of having a baby definitely next week (or earlier) (I'm too impatient for it to be any longer than next Friday)! Wouldn't it be funny if by some chance you had to monitor my baby LOL although I'm guessing it won't be on account of size