It can happen to each child, irrespective of age and foresight of parents - falling from a bed. It can be quite harmless phenomenon or lead to considerable injuries and even to a lethal outcome. Everything depends on age of the kid and height with which he happened to fall.
What falling from a bed is fraught with
There is no such bed with which the child could not fall. Even the highest lattices cannot become absolute protection against loss, the most dexterous acrobats clamber on them up and sooner or later such tricks come to an end with flight with the head down. It is possible to imagine a fright of the parents who suddenly appeared in such situation. According to doctors, 90% of all injuries of the head are fraught as much as possible only with slight concussion passing without any treatment. But situation can turn out and quite serious therefore in case of doubt it is the best of all to perstrakhovatsya and show the child to the doctor. Nevertheless, each parent has to be able to define gravity of a situation independently that the nobility whether to rush with the child to the accident ward that hour or it is possible to wait, for example, till the morning.
Possible consequences
The greatest danger is constituted themselves by falling from height more than one and a half-two meters on a firm surface. In this case it is impossible to wait minutes, it is necessary to carry urgently the child to hospital or to call the ambulance, previously having described the operator gravity of a situation. Sometimes after falling on the head there are injuries – bruises, cones and grazes. Most often they are quite harmless, and in certain cases externally it is not possible to notice any damages while internal damages put pressure upon a brain and can become even deadly.
If from a nose or ears liquid flows transparent or with small impurity of blood, it can be simpotomy a fracture of a skull base which treatment is urgent operation.
What it is necessary to pay attention to
To parents whose child fell from a bed it is necessary to watch carefully within the next hours the child and at once to prick up the ears if in his behavior any strangenesses are found. It is the best of all if at the same time they adhere to the following list: - The child of an eye opens? - Normally reacts to an environment? - Whether the size of pupils is identical? - Whether pupils at a podstvetka are narrowed by their small lamp? - Whether the child complains of pricking or numbness in hands and legs? - Does it have nausea or a headache?
Falling by a forehead down usually are less traumatic, than landings by a nape or a temple.
Observation of the child
But even if all these signs are not observed, it is necessary to continue observation at least even day. If for this period the child has a vomiting, headaches, violation of sensitivity or even paralysis of extremities, squint develop or from a wound on the head blood continues to flow, it is necessary to take that hour the kid to hospital. If the child remains oars and is quiet, continues to eat with appetite, and does not remind anything unless except a cone on a forehead, it is possible to calm down of a past – falling was harmless. And nevertheless, it is necessary to find out how the child fell from a bed and to take all necessary security measures that the situation did not repeat.