HEAD INJURIES Head injuries are very common in childhood and it is unlikely that significant skull or brain injury would result from any head injury that did not cause a loss of consciousness. If you believe your child has had a significant head injury please call our office. Please give your child complete rest after a significant head injury. Notify us if any of the following occur:

1.   There is any loss of consciousness at the time of the injury or any time thereafter.

2.   You are unable to arouse your child from sleep. You may allow your child to sleep after the injury but check every 2-3 hours through the night to make sure your child can be aroused.

3.   There is persistent vomiting. Many children vomit immediately, usually once, but the vomiting should not persist.

4.   Inability to move a limb.

5.   Oozing of blood or watery fluid from the nose or ears.

6.   Persistent headache lasting over one hour. The headache would be severe enough to interfere with activity and normal sleep.

7.   Persistent dizziness for more than one hour after the injury.

8.   Pallid color that does not return to normal in a short time.

9.   Persistent inability to remember the accident in an older child.

     1 0.  Marked sleepiness , worsening confusion, or any other significant   change in mental status.