📌 Key Highlights & Quick Takeaways:
- A head injury may seem minor, but sometimes the effects inside the brain can be serious, experts point out.
- Even if the victim feels better immediately after a fall, traffic accident, hit on the head while playing or hit by a hard object, it is not.
- Health experts say that some dangerous symptoms of a brain injury may not appear immediately, but may appear hours or in some cases days lat.
A head injury may seem minor, but sometimes the effects inside the brain can be serious, experts point out.
Even if the victim feels better immediately after a fall, traffic accident, hit on the head while playing or hit by a hard object, it is not advisable to ignore it completely.
Health experts say that some dangerous symptoms of a brain injury may not appear immediately, but may appear hours or in some cases days later.
According to Indian neurosurgeon Dr. Nitin Bhakal, mild fatigue or slight drowsiness after a head injury is not a sign of danger in all cases, however, if the affected person is difficult to wake up, appears unusually slow or sluggish, is confused during conversation or has a clear change in his behavior, then he needs an immediate medical examination.
Such symptoms may indicate a severe shock to the brain, called a concussion, or, in some cases, bleeding inside the brain.
