Symptoms of a mild concussion in children

In fact, we should be more careful when treating our children in life, otherwise our children may suffer some kind of accident and suffer a mild concussion. Let us take a look at the symptoms of mild concussion in children.

Symptoms and signs

1. Transient brainstem symptoms: Impairment of consciousness occurs immediately after trauma to the head, manifested as confusion or complete coma, lasting for several seconds, minutes or tens of minutes, but generally not more than half an hour. The patient may also experience symptoms such as pale complexion, sweating, decreased blood pressure, slow heartbeat, shallow and slow breathing, decreased muscle tone, and slow or absent various physiological reflexes. In most patients with reversible mild concussion, the central nervous system function recovers rapidly from bottom to top, from the cervical spinal cord-medulla oblongata-brainstem to the cerebral cortex; while in irreversible severe concussion, it may be a top-down inhibition process, which interrupts the function of the medullary respiratory center and circulatory center for too long, thus leading to death.

2. Retrograde amnesia (recent amnesia): After the patient regains consciousness, he cannot recall the situation at the time of injury or even a period of time before the injury. The more severe the concussion and the longer the primary coma, the more obvious the recent amnesia is, but he can recall past events (remote memory). This may be related to damage to the hippocampus.

3. Neurological examination revealed no positive signs.

4. Patients in the recovery period of concussion often have symptoms such as dizziness, headache, nausea, vomiting, tinnitus, insomnia, etc., which usually disappear gradually within weeks to months. However, some patients have long-term symptoms such as dizziness, headache, insomnia, irritability, inattention and memory loss. Some of them are recovery symptoms. If there is no obvious improvement after 3 to 6 months, in addition to considering whether there are mental factors, detailed examination and analysis should be carried out to see if there is any delayed damage. Do not use the term "sequelae of concussion" to sum it up, which will increase the mental burden of the patient.

The above article introduces in detail the symptoms of mild concussion in children. I believe everyone has a preliminary understanding of it. Therefore, in daily life, if your child has such a situation, you should go to the hospital for examination.