Children’s concussions can be characterized by transient impairment of consciousness, nervousness or depression, nausea and vomiting, and retrograde amnesia.
1. Transient impaired consciousness: Children’s concussions most often appear after head trauma, and there will be transient impaired consciousness after a fall, mostly lasting a few seconds to a few minutes.
2. Mental abnormality: After waking up, they may show nervousness and irritability or depression and drowsiness; older children may complain of headache and dizziness. There may also be disorders of the central system and autonomic nervous system, such as slowed heart rate, pallor, cold sweat, and lowered blood pressure.
3. Nausea and vomiting: head trauma leads to swelling of brain tissue, high intracranial pressure can also occur nausea and vomiting, especially in infants and young children, concussion is easy to trigger the deterioration of neurological function, the emergence of pediatric concussion syndrome, the performance of delayed nausea and vomiting.
4. Retrograde amnesia: it will show transient or intermittent amnesia, most of which can be recovered, and a few of which may cause recent memory loss and other manifestations.
Some symptoms of concussion in children are atypical, so it is necessary to observe closely after head trauma, and if the above symptoms appear, it is necessary to go to the hospital for examination to exclude some other complications such as intracranial hemorrhage.