My kid 3 yrs fell down backwards at school and teacher says her head didn't hit..

She had little runny nose and sneezing when she went to school.. after falling down she slept for an hour, and then after taking lunch she vomitted.. Then I was called in the school and I brought her back . Again she vomitted one more time when we reached home. then she slept and after waking, she was active and ate food and didn't vomit.. But she is having fever now .. Teacher called up at night and said she had fallen at school but her head didn't hit. They didn't say about this incident earlier..Then I was tensed and came across some YouTube videos mentioning the symptoms after a serious head hit.. one is feeling sleepy and the other vomitting.. my kid had these 2 symptoms, she vomitted twice and slept soon after falling down.

Is there anything to worry? Should we tak her to hospital for any checkups? please reply

Question

My kid 3 yrs fell down backwards at school and teacher says her head didn't hit..

She had little runny nose and sneezing when she went to school.. after falling down she slept for an hour, and then after taking lunch she vomitted.. Then I was called in the school and I brought her back . Again she vomitted one more time when we reached home. then she slept and after waking, she was active and ate food and didn't vomit.. But she is having fever now .. Teacher called up at night and said she had fallen at school but her head didn't hit. They didn't say about this incident earlier..Then I was tensed and came across some YouTube videos mentioning the symptoms after a serious head hit.. one is feeling sleepy and the other vomitting.. my kid had these 2 symptoms, she vomitted twice and slept soon after falling down.

Is there anything to worry? Should we tak her to hospital for any checkups? please reply

Accepted Answer

Thank you Doctor for the proactive response.

She fell down by 10 am slept by 11 am, then wake up and ate lunch by 12.30 and then vomitted at that time, and second vomittig after taking food was around 1.30 pm.. then she slept and by 6 pm drank tea, ate 1 dosa and didn't vomit and became active. 
there are no swelling Or pain on her head. 
but she have a runny nose and sneezing. no temperature. so can we conclude ahe hasn't affected due to the fall? Kindly reply Doctor

Accepted Answer

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 moment or convulsions . Such case needs  immediate medical intervention as there could be some internal injury . Otherwise application of ice locally to reduce the swelling and pain can be done along with sofyme analgesic like paracetamol. 
Recurrent fall injury for a child shouldu be avoided as it can lead to some chronic manifestations occasionally .
Also teeth injury should be rule out in any such case which is commonly associated  and can be easily missed out most of the time .