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Treatment

Children with mild brain injuries usually need no treatment other than careful monitoring for 48 hours. As the depth control is also important, the child may have to stop playing sports for a long time.

If your child’s injury is more serious and are controlling in an emergency room or been admitted to the hospital for observation, the doctor will periodically evaluate the condition of your child. Once you are sure that your child can return home, the doctor will take you with instructions to follow. Read the rest of this entry »

Duration

The duration of symptoms depends on the type and severity of the injury. For example, pain caused by minor head injuries usually lasts only a few minutes. Symptoms of a concussion often goes away within minutes or hours after the injury, but a child may have symptoms of confusion, memory loss, difficulty concentrating, headache, dizziness and fatigue for several days or more.

This set of symptoms called postconcussional syndrome can sometimes last for weeks or months. The most severe brain injuries may require longer hospitalizations for rehabilitation. Rarely, these cases can lead to death. Read the rest of this entry »

In most cases of brain injury in children, the parents call the doctor first to determine if your child needs to be evaluated in person. If you contact your child’s physician for consultation on a brain injury, the doctor will want to know:

* How and when your child injured his head when he fell, the doctor will want to know the height of the fall and the surface on which it fell.
* Physical description of the child’s brain injury: If there are bruises, inflammation, depression in the skull, discoloration around the eyes or behind the ear, fluid draining from the nose or ear bleeding Read the rest of this entry »

Brain injuries can cause many symptoms, depending on the type of injury, its severity and its location in the head and inside the brain. The child’s neurological symptoms may include:

* Fainting (loss of consciousness)
* Lack of reaction
* Headache
* dizziness
* drowsiness
* Nausea and vomiting Read the rest of this entry »

A head injury can cause various medical and surgical problems from mild to severe. Each year in the United States in children with brain injuries cause more than 500,000 million emergency department visits, with more than 95,000 hospitalizations.

While 90% of all brain injuries in children are smaller, around 7,000 children die each year from head injury and another 29,000 develop permanent disability.

In the U.S., the most common causes of pediatric brain injury are car accidents, falls, assaults, bicycle accidents and injuries related to sports. In infants under 1 year of age, more serious brain injuries are related to child abuse. Read the rest of this entry »