The harm of walking too early after a fracture. The harm of walking too early after a fracture.

As we all know, it usually takes three months to recover after a fracture. It takes three months for bones to grow back. After a fracture, it needs to be fixed with plaster, and it is best to start moving slowly at a later stage. If you move too early, the bones will recover more slowly and may even cause secondary damage to the bones. If you have a fracture, it is best to lie in bed and raise the injured area with a sling to ensure normal blood flow, and then move again after the bone has grown well. So, what are the dangers of walking too early after a fracture?

If the upper limb fracture is effectively fixed, there is no harm in getting out of bed and moving around. After a lower limb fracture, getting up and moving around too early may cause fracture displacement or re-fracture. If internal fixation is performed, it may cause the internal fixation device to bend or even break. After a spinal fracture, if you get up on the ground before the fracture heals, the pressure of gravity may cause the vertebral body to collapse, and even compress the nerves, causing numbness and other phenomena. If neurological symptoms already exist, they may be aggravated.

Nursing care for patients with fractures

1. Patients with fractures should pay attention to making food easy to digest and absorb, and be cautious when using spicy foods (chili peppers, raw onions, mustard, pepper) that may have adverse effects on the respiratory and digestive tracts. When systemic symptoms are obvious, so-called soft meals should be given, which are between normal diet and semi-liquid diet. The food provided must contain less residue and be easy to chew and digest. It must be chopped and boiled soft when cooking. It should not be fried or deep-fried.

2. 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, greater troubles will also arise. 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. Therefore, bedridden patients with fractures can drink water whenever they want without having to worry too much.

3. Avoid eating too much white 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 a state of acidosis. At this time, alkaline calcium, magnesium, sodium and other ions will be mobilized immediately.

4. Generally speaking, patients who have been injured for 1 to 2 weeks need a light, easily absorbed and digestible diet. They should be given more vegetables, fruits, fish soup, eggs, soy products, etc., and should be mainly steamed or stewed, and eat less spicy, greasy and fried food. In particular, you can eat more honey and bananas, because bedridden patients will mostly have symptoms such as constipation, and these foods can help defecation.

For fracture patients who have been injured for 2 to 4 weeks, their bodies are no longer so weak, and their appetite and gastrointestinal function have recovered. At that time, they can supplement nutrition appropriately. Foods such as bone soup, fish, eggs and animal liver are better. At the same time, they should also eat more radishes, tomatoes, green peppers, etc. These foods can meet the needs of bone growth and promote wound healing.