18/09/2017
How your child could significantly benefit from a cast cover
Picking up an injury can make a cast necessary – and you sadly can't entirely rule out the possibility of your child becoming injured or requiring a cast for one reason or another. However, a child-sized cast cover from DryPro can increase the comfort of wearing a cast for your little one.
Why might your kid need a cast?
Typically, a child will need to have a cast fitted due to having broken a bone. Children can be very clumsy; therefore, the risk of inadvertent bone damage as a result of their day-to-day ‘adventures’ is very real.
However, even without broken bones, your child might still require a cast to cultivate the proper growth of bones and surrounding tissues. Alternatively, your child might have recently undergone bone surgery – in which case, a cast could ease bone healing.
Your child’s cast may require protection from water
A cast can frequently present one obvious problem to your child above all else – that of the damage that can be caused to it by contact with water. However, keeping your child’s cast dry can be notoriously difficult when the time comes for them to wash themselves. Your child should have baths rather than showers – and kids aged younger than five years ought to be sponge bathed.
So, do you need to have the cast propped up on a platform like a milk crate while your child is being bathed? Not necessarily. After all, you can order a waterproof cast cover for kids from our online store. This cover includes our patented vacuum seal, which keeps the cover watertight.
A detachable handheld pump is included with each child-size DryPro cast cover. You can use this pump to remove air from the cover, thereby ensuring that the seal does not leak. Other brands’ cast covers feature not a vacuum seal, but instead an elasticated cuff that will not be watertight.
It's not just water that you should keep away
Other foreign objects or substances should also be kept out of your child’s cast; otherwise, the injured area could become infected. A particularly young child might place food or small toys inside the cast, for example.
Nonetheless, water remains an especially great threat to the integrity of a cast – and when you wish to keep your child’s cast dry for swimming, bathing or any other context in which they may come into contact with water, there’s no better solution than a DryPro cast cover for kids.