Sequelae of elbow fracture in children

Children's elbow fractures are mainly caused by external force. Although the fracture is not a serious condition, the children are still young after all. When broken bones occur in children, parents are most worried about leaving sequelae. Children generally do not have many sequelae of elbow fractures. As long as they can take good measures to deal with it, take good rehabilitation measures, and combine it with diet, they can basically return to normal.

1. Don’t blindly supplement calcium

Some people believe that supplementing with calcium after a fracture can speed up the healing of broken bones. However, scientific research has found that increasing calcium intake does not accelerate the healing of broken bones, and for patients with fractures who are bedridden for a long time, there is a potential risk of increased blood calcium and a decrease in blood phosphorus. For patients with fractures, there is no lack of calcium in the body. As long as they strengthen functional exercises and move around as early as possible according to their condition and the doctor's instructions, they can promote the bone's absorption and utilization of calcium and accelerate the healing of broken bones.

2. Avoid eating too much meat and bones

Some people believe that eating more meat and bones after a fracture can help the fracture heal earlier. In fact, this is not the case. Modern medicine has proved through many practices that if patients with fractures eat more meat and bones, it will not only fail to heal early, but will delay the healing time of the fracture. Because the regeneration of bones after injury mainly depends on the function of periosteum and bone marrow, and periosteum and bone marrow can play a better role only under the condition of increasing collagen, and the main components of meat bones are phosphorus and calcium. If consumed in large quantities after a fracture, it will increase the inorganic content in the bone, leading to an imbalance in the proportion of organic matter in the bone, which will hinder the early healing of the fracture.

3. Avoid partiality

Patients with fractures often suffer from local edema, congestion, bleeding, muscle tissue damage, etc. The body itself has the ability to resist and repair these, and the body relies on various nutrients to repair tissues, grow bones and regenerate muscles, form callus, and remove blood stasis and swelling. Therefore, nutrition is the key to ensuring the smooth healing of fractures.

5. Avoid drinking less water

Bedridden patients with fractures, especially those with fractures of the spine, pelvis and lower limbs, have great difficulty in moving, so they try to drink less water to reduce the frequency of urination. Although this reduces the frequency of urination, it also creates greater trouble. If bedridden patients have less activity, weakened intestinal motility, and drink less water, it is easy to cause constipation. Long-term bed rest and urine retention can easily induce urinary stones and urinary tract infections.

6. Do not consume excessive amounts of sugar

After consuming a large amount of white sugar, it will cause rapid metabolism of glucose, thereby producing metabolic intermediates such as pyruvate, lactic acid, etc., which will cause the body to be in an acidic poisoning state. At this time, alkaline calcium, magnesium, sodium and other ions will be immediately mobilized to participate in the neutralization effect to prevent the blood from becoming acidic. Such a large amount of calcium consumption will be detrimental to the recovery of fracture patients. At the same time, too much white sugar will also reduce the content of vitamin B1 in the body. Insufficient vitamin B1 greatly reduces the activity of nerves and muscles and also affects the recovery of function.