My 6 year old daughter sprained her ankle last monday. we took her to a urgent care center, they did xray and said it was just sprained. she is still limping around and it is still a little swollen and bruised. yesterday she started with a fever. is this due to the sprain?
Hello, It could be. The sprains ankle could lead to fever if it was severe enough as to destroy the structures involved. Especially if you didn't take care of it after it happened. For example, after the injury of joints the best thing to do is to insert the joint in cold water and then to rap it up with onion and salt in order to suck and remove the fluids causing edema of the joint. If this is not done the fluids coming out because of the injury will be swollen and hurting. The ankle needs to rest as well, but you say your daughter continues to move around thereafter. Therefore, after some days in these conditions with fluid in the joint space the inflammation could occur leading to fever. However, this is little probable if the skin is intact (not perforated or torn out) as microbes don't have an entry point. My advice