It is impossible to completely protect the child from falls. If the child seldom falls, can you tremble tremendously over him? Of course, this will save the baby's bones, but will spoil the character.
When the child fell
When the child no longer suffices space room, it comes time to master the heights. It can be a stool or a sports complex, a simple tree or a hill in the playground. As a result of such high-altitude experiments, children fall, hit with stomachs, backs, heads, break legs and hands. What should parents know if their children are injured? Should I take the child to the emergency room, call an ambulance or go to the doctor?
When a child cries and lies, has a bleeding or an open fracture, there are no questions. We need to call an ambulance. But often it's different.
The child fell from a small height onto a flat surface. There are no visible bruises, but his leg or arm is unnaturally arched. The child gets up himself, but there is a darkening in the eyes, dizziness, severe pain in the leg or arm. Consultation with the doctor is necessary. Urgently call an ambulance.
Can go myself
The child can stand up himself, he may have a single vomiting, he complains of nausea, headache. The kid remembers everything that happened to him. On the body may remain bruising, bruises. A leg or arm can hurt. Consultation of the doctor is necessary. The doctor will assess the state of the nervous system and test the work of internal organs. You can take your daughter or son to a hospital or a trauma center on an ordinary car. And it is possible to carry on hands or to take home, to put the child in bed and to call the doctor.
Children up to one and a half years
There is not a single child who at this age would never fall, when he learned to crawl, walk or sit. When should this child be taken to a doctor?
When he fell from a small height and already walks, he simply could not keep his feet, then the doctor needed, when:
- the child vomited,
- when he did not immediately cry.
If the doctor said that there is nothing terrible
It is necessary to observe and look after. It is necessary to know that the consequences of trauma can appear not immediately, but after a while. It can be damage to the internal organs and brain. And even with no severe trauma (a little vomited, fell on the ass, slipped) you need to lie down at home seven days. This is when you have a doctor who can be consulted at any time, day or night. The doctor will examine your child one week after the injury.
If your child has the symptoms that are described below, the child should be urgently taken to the hospital:
- the state of health worsened, although the condition began to improve, the child is difficult to wake up, there was a sharp drowsiness at an unusual time,
- increased excitability, it is difficult to fall asleep, wakes up at night with weeping. Slowly answers questions, sometimes inappropriately. He does the wrong things, pulls on his shoes, eats paper. Does not understand where he is, does not know what to do,
- cramps and twitching of limbs or the whole body, tipping the head during lying or sitting, setting eyeballs to the sides or up,
- dizziness, which passed after the injury and appeared on the 3rd, 4th day,
- the sharp pallor of the mucous membranes and skin,
- blood in the urine.
Mom will need to take a hospital sheet and constantly monitor the child. Children after the injury for a week needs bed rest.