How Best Is To Treat Sciatic Nerve Injury In Children?
May 23rd, 2009 | 
Author: My child who is a year and eleven months old now was given a fancidar injection in his buttock of the right leg last February. It seems that injection injured the sciatic nerve or some kind of nerve, and since then he has to drag his right leg when he walks. Though he has been receiving some physiotherapic treatment it appears the response is not as it should be, hence my question: How best is it to treat sciatic nerve injury in children?
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I am not a doctor. I do know that Fancidar is a sulfa-based medication (a sulfonamide) used to treat malaria.
Nerves grow (and heal if possible) very slowly.
Here, in the US, there have been initial good results in studies of injecting white blood cells near the injured nerve to help regenerate the nerve. I don’t know if that is available to you in your location.
When you don’t know what to do, treat the symptoms.
Learn the exercises that the physiotherapist is performing on your child’s leg and gently continue the exercises at home.
Even if it is just moving the joints without help from the child who may be unable to help move the leg very much.
Put warm soaks on the area to stimulate blood flow to the injured nerve area. And pray.
My sister-in-law’s mother did this to her when she had muscle weakness, and after two years of home therapy, she gradually regained strength and muscle use of her legs again.
I hope this happens for your child.