How to reduce swelling when a child hits his head

Small children hit the head bag, mainly due to local blood vessels and soft tissue rupture, resulting in local congestion, bruising and edema triggered. Can cooperate with the doctor to give physical methods, local medication, surgical treatment.
1. Physical methods: when a child hit the head after the bag, parents can use a towel wrapped in ice on the child’s head for cold compresses, which can promote local vasoconstriction, reduce oozing, and play the effect of swelling.
2. Local medication: after the use of cold compresses for small children, can follow the doctor’s instructions to be Yunnan Baiyao aerosol and other drugs for external treatment, can play a role in blood circulation, reduce blood stasis, swelling and pain.
3. Surgical treatment: If there is an obvious hematoma of the head, or fracture may be, it is necessary to consult a doctor in a timely manner, improve the cranial CT and other tests to assist in the diagnosis, such as a clear hematoma of the head, skull fracture, intracranial hemorrhage, etc., according to the cause of the different, in accordance with the doctor’s instructions, choose to be conservative or to be treated with surgical procedures.
Children who hit their heads with a bag should go to the hospital in a timely manner, follow the doctor’s advice to clarify the cause of the targeted treatment.