Trauma Head Injury

A trauma head injury is a sort of wound to your scalp, brain, or skull. It can range from a bruise to an injury, to a mild bump. Typical trauma head injuries include scalp wounds, concussions, and skull fractures.

The treatments and consequences vary greatly, based on how severe the injury is and what is causing the pain in your head. Head injuries can be either open or close, and in most cases, it is a little difficult to access how severe a head injury is just by looking at it.

Some petty wounds will ooze a lot, while others won’t seep at all. It is essential to treat head injuries with care and get them checked by a doctor.

Risk factors of Traumatic Head Injury

These people are more likely to develop trauma head injury:

• Newborns up to 4 years old 
• Young adults between 15 to 24
• Adults aged 60 and above 
• Males of any age

Symptoms to watch out for
Trauma headache will cause a blow to the head that gets associated with the following: 

• Falls
• Sports-oriented accidents
• Car mishaps

In some cases, your head may save your skull from severe injury. Nevertheless, it can cause severe injuries and get associated with the spine. If a child gets diagnosed with a traumatic head injury, you may observe the following symptoms.

• Unusual irritability 
• Shifts in sleeping habits
• Sad mood or overly cranky  
• Loss of interest in favourite toys

Physical symptoms of the head injury may include loss of consciousness from minutes to hours. You may experience a headache that worsens with time.

How does a doctor treat a traumatic head injury?

A mild traumatic injury will not need anything except over-the-counter medications. But, if it is severe, it needs to get inspected time and again.