How to deal with a mild concussion

How to deal with a mild concussion? In daily life, I believe many people will have heard of concussion. When people hit their heads, they will I am very afraid of having a concussion. Some of the symptoms are mild. Below I will share how to deal with a mild concussion. Let’s take a look. How to deal with a mild concussion 1

How to deal with a mild concussion

Concussion: Temporary dysfunction of the brain occurs after the head is hit by an external force. A common symptom is a temporary trance or loss of consciousness that occurs immediately after a head injury, lasting from a few seconds to 20 to 30 minutes. After waking up, the patient returns to normal, but has no memory of the situation and the process of the injury. It is recommended that you go to the hospital for diagnosis first and then target treatment, and do not blindly use medicine!

What to do if you have a mild concussion

(1) The dynamic changes in the patient’s condition should be closely observed within a certain period of time after the injury. For patients diagnosed with concussion, they are required to be hospitalized and observed for 1 to 2 weeks to avoid being unable to treat delayed intracranial hematoma and delaying treatment.

(2) The patient needs to rest in bed for 7 to 14 days and avoid making noise to avoid irritating the patient’s brain.

(3) Allow patients to reduce mental work, think as little as possible, do not watch TV, do not read long articles, and enjoy beautiful and peaceful music in their leisure time to relax their thinking. How to deal with mild concussion 2

Symptoms of mild concussion in children

1. Transient brainstem symptoms. Consciousness disorder occurs immediately after trauma acts on the head, manifesting as confusion. Or complete coma, lasting for seconds, minutes or tens of minutes, but generally not more than half an hour. Patients may also suffer from symptoms such as pale complexion, sweating, decreased blood pressure, bradycardia, shallow and slow breathing, decreased muscle tone, and various physiological reflexes are slow or disappear. In most patients with reversible mild concussion, central nervous function recovers rapidly from the bottom up, from the cervical spinal cord-medulla oblongata-brainstem to the cerebral cortex; while in severe irreversible concussion, it may be a top-down inhibitory process. , causing the functions of the medulla oblongata respiratory center and circulatory center to be interrupted for a long time, thus leading to death.

2. Retrograde amnesia (recent event amnesia): After the patient recovers consciousness, he cannot recall the situation at the time of the injury or even during the period before the injury. The more serious the concussion and the longer the original coma, the more recent events will occur. The phenomenon of forgetting things becomes more and more obvious, but the past events (remote memory) can be recalled. This may be related to damage to the hippocampus.

3. Nervous system physical examination showed 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 gradually disappear within weeks to months, but some patients also have long-term dizziness. , headache, insomnia, irritability, inattention, memory loss and other symptoms, some of which are symptoms of the recovery period. If there is no obvious improvement after 3 to 6 months, in addition to considering whether there are mental factors, you should also Conduct detailed examination and analysis to see if there is any delayed damage. Do not use the term "sequelae of concussion" to summarize it, which will increase the patient's mental burden.