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Anything to be done for a smelly cast?
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<blockquote data-quote="Hound dog" data-source="post: 577307" data-attributes="member: 84"><p>Actually, it's fairly normalish for the cast to begin to smell at this point if it's not been changed at all. </p><p></p><p>With Travis they checked him fairly frequently to see how his arm was healing......about every two weeks and actually changed the cast when they did it. He started with one clear up to his shoulder. That one was removed and it went to his elbow. Two weeks later he was checked again and it turned out it was fully healed so they removed it completely. We didn't have too bad an odor due to the frequent cast changes. </p><p></p><p>Nichole's was a different story......They didn't change hers at all (different hospital/doctor) the whole time and it got rather whiff by the 5th week. Hers also was able to be removed a bit early because it was healed. (think of wearing the same outfit for 5 weeks)</p><p></p><p>There is temptation to scrub the skin once that cast is off, but be careful because the skin will be tender. Have her scrub gently to remove dead skin only.....which is what is causing the itching. It doesn't take long for the skin to return to normal usually.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hound dog, post: 577307, member: 84"] Actually, it's fairly normalish for the cast to begin to smell at this point if it's not been changed at all. With Travis they checked him fairly frequently to see how his arm was healing......about every two weeks and actually changed the cast when they did it. He started with one clear up to his shoulder. That one was removed and it went to his elbow. Two weeks later he was checked again and it turned out it was fully healed so they removed it completely. We didn't have too bad an odor due to the frequent cast changes. Nichole's was a different story......They didn't change hers at all (different hospital/doctor) the whole time and it got rather whiff by the 5th week. Hers also was able to be removed a bit early because it was healed. (think of wearing the same outfit for 5 weeks) There is temptation to scrub the skin once that cast is off, but be careful because the skin will be tender. Have her scrub gently to remove dead skin only.....which is what is causing the itching. It doesn't take long for the skin to return to normal usually. [/QUOTE]
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