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Suggest Treatment For Fever After Injury To Forehead And Nose Bleed

My son was running outside with his cousins when he slipped and fell on cobbelstones resulting in injury to his forehead, the top of his nose and his knee. He had a nose bleed, a big lump on his forehead and a scraped up knee. At first he was in pain and pretty quiet, just laying around. After an hour or so, he snapped back pretty quickly and was his normal self again. Now, 4 hours later he started running a high fever. Since we are out of town, I have searched the internet and find conflicting information if the fever is related to his concussion . Can I continue to closely monitor him, or do I need to take him to the E.R. immediately?
Mon, 9 May 2016
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hi,

thank-you for providing the brief history of your son


As he had a fall and post that having bleeding from nose and on high fever now. You should have monitor him closely and look for any other signs or symptoms.

As when some one falls and have a direct hit on the head, the brain gets concussion within the skull and if it is high concussion then there might be bleeding internally which comes out from nose, ear etc. If bleeding stops then not much to worry.

His fever is a protective mechanism and brain is healing his body against the fall. But a close monitoring is good.

Also, having an assessment in the ER is not at all a bad idea.

Regards
Jay Indravadan Patel
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Suggest Treatment For Fever After Injury To Forehead And Nose Bleed

hi, thank-you for providing the brief history of your son As he had a fall and post that having bleeding from nose and on high fever now. You should have monitor him closely and look for any other signs or symptoms. As when some one falls and have a direct hit on the head, the brain gets concussion within the skull and if it is high concussion then there might be bleeding internally which comes out from nose, ear etc. If bleeding stops then not much to worry. His fever is a protective mechanism and brain is healing his body against the fall. But a close monitoring is good. Also, having an assessment in the ER is not at all a bad idea. Regards Jay Indravadan Patel