Ankle injury

[josaphine32]

My daughter triped over the hoover around 4.30ish and landed with a thud her ankle hurts (her words it kills ) from the back heal up till just past the heal, I know it is musculer as she is weight bearing, I sent her for a bath and she took 2 brufen tablets, I now know that she is allergic to deep heat like me, as her ankle went very red and raised, can anyone give me any help to how to get her back on her feet, as alevel exams tomorrow, should she use it or elevate it, it does not look swollen but starting to looked bruised

[Sqad]

Put a pack of frozen peas on it. elevate it and take 400mgms of Ibuprofen at 10pm and it should feel better in the morning.
Yes I know she has already taken some Brufen.

[josaphine32]

thanks squad should we take paracetamol in 2 hours or will the brufen last till then, as she is dying and cant possibly get up for anything (MILKING IT BIG TIME)

[Sqad]

Brufen is better than Paracetamol for an injury.

If she has 400mgm tablets of Brufen, that would be fine. One 400mgm tablet.

600mgms would be better, but I am led to believe that they are not available in the UK.