my baby is one year 10 days old he has fallen from bed three times while he was 6,8 months old yesterday he has suddenly fallen from bed by his chest frontwards as a lizard falls froms wall same way he has fallen from bed front word by his chest. I put him to sleep and covered all the sides with pillows and went to washroom heard as I was coming to the room from corridor I saw him faaling by his chest ..he cried for few minutes but he started playing after some times he coughed and his throat seemed choked for some times and then was normal. how to know did he got any serious injury in his chest. ,?

1 Answer

Dr Sameer awadhiyaGuardian of 2 children3 years ago

A. Any Fall injury specially head injury needs to be assessed properly . In any such case certain symptoms needs to be checked like loss of consciousness reccurrent vomiting or any abnormal movement or convulsions.in such case it needs immediate medical intervention as there could be some internal injury .otherwise application of ice locally to relieve the swelling and pain can be done along with some analgesic like paracetamol. Recurrent fall injury for a child should be avoided as it can lead to some chronic manifestations occasionally . Also ,teeth injury should be rule oybouut in any such case which is commonly associated and can be easily missed out most of the time .

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