As official statistics, sometimes children of the first year of life testifies, having been left only for a minute without supervision, can get a serious craniocereberal trauma, having fallen from a sofa, a changing table or having got out of a bed or a carriage. There are no accurate and general terms in which children can begin to turn over and creep therefore falling can happen at various age – from one month to one year.
Features of injuries of the head of children of the first year of life
Craniocereberal trauma call mechanical injury of both skull bones, and its internal structures (a brain, vessels, nerves or brain covers). Symptomatology of this sort of injuries at children of the first year of life very differs from the processes arising at adult patients. It is connected with a number of features:
- incomplete process of ossification of a skull at children – cranial bones are rather plastic, they flexible, connections between them leaky; - unripe brain fabrics in which the differentiation of structures of the nervous centers and brain blood circulation is not ended yet.
Therefore on the one hand brain fabric at children differs in great compensatory opportunities – at them the so-called margin of safety when the plastic skull and the brain saturated with liquid amortize blow is higher. However on the other hand because of immaturity of tissue of brain, a trauma are capable to cause violations in development of its structures, having provoked in the future problems in mental or emotional development.
What to do after the baby fell from height
Many parents came up against a situation when their child fell on a floor from a bed. It is good if the baby landed on a soft carpet, and height of a bed or sofa was insignificant. However and in this case there is a risk of receiving a craniocereberal trauma. To exclude serious injuries of the head, it is worth observing the child some time. Recommendations after falling from a bed are quite universal – if in behavior of the kid there are sharp changes, the child cannot calm down in any way and obviously feels pain, it is necessary to ask at once for the help physicians. Experts hurry to remind: in a case with small children it is better to reach to hospital once again in time to diagnose or on the contrary to exclude a craniocereberal trauma. After incidents of this sort the consultation at the children's neuropathologist, the traumatologist or the neurosurgeon can be necessary. If between falling and shout of the child there was any interval (of one minute to several), it can demonstrate consciousness loss that in turn can be symptom of a bruise of a brain. In this case adults need to call the doctor at once. An important symptom is also vomiting or an excessive otrygivaniye that can also indicate gravity of a trauma. Thus, experts do not cease to recommend to parents after falling of the child from a bed to address experts. It is possible to call ambulance crew home – after survey the professionals will decide whether it is worth carrying the child to hospital for more thorough inspection or reasons for concern is not present. The parents having such opportunity can also bring the kid to medical institution for consultation of the traumatologist or the neuropathologist to exclude risk of an injury of skull and brain.