Guest guest Posted December 17, 2005 Report Share Posted December 17, 2005 I don't know if anyone else has heard of this or tried this before but although our son is now in the boots and bars, when we started treatment at our first hospital they used to make the end of the plaster bandage into a bobble (lump) this meant when we came to soak them off it really woulds only take us about 5 minutes soaking time followed by an unravelling of the bandage. (Unfortunately if the bandage broke it would be a real nightmare getting them off after this) When we changed hospitals as the treatment wasn't getting the correction we needed they didn't use lumps. (Wierd thing is is that our current hospital trained the people who we used to see!) It always took so much longer getting his casts off when the bobbles we'ren't used. I really don't know if the plaster at the first hospital was different from our current one but since they were trained by our current hospital I can't imagine they would use different materials. It might be worth asking about having the ends made into lumps to help removal. If you do it's worth me mentioning that lumps on the outside used to dig in to me when I was breastfeeding Ethan. We found lumps on the inside of his legs were probably the best and the lumps definately had to be big enough to get a grip on to start the unravelling of the plaster bandages. Hope this is of some use. Kathy and Ethan (mitchells 23/24 - for three more days, yippee, then it's 20/24!) --------------------------------- To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! Security Centre. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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