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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Scratching an itch - spica cast tip.

The other night Curious George asked me to scratch his short cast leg for him. He was very itchy and I spent a long time rubbing under his short cast leg while he went to sleep. Luckily I have long fingers so I just put them inside the cast edge and rubbed every where I could reach.

Them he asked me to 'scratch' his other leg - the full cast one. Oh dear. Fortunately a very helpful physio, who came to visit us and give us advice in the hospital, had given me a good tip for this. She said that if you gently tap or bang on the cast with an open hand near the place it's itching then that helps to confuse those nerves and distracts the brain so the itch is not as bad. I tried this with great success and CG was eventually able to go to sleep. What a great tip, thanks Georgie (the physio).


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  1. itching under castJanuary 8, 2013 at 1:29 PM

    Great work. Keep posting such nice so we can keep learning from this blog.

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