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What Causes Speechlessness After A Head Injury?

My grand daughter aged 9 yes had a fall in the steps and hit her side upper head and on the back.She laidotionless and speechless for about 3 minutes.Then recovered after drinking water.now says OK.Why speechless occurs and whether any further check up to be done.
Tue, 30 Jan 2018
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okay as I have understood your question
there was a transient loss of speech and now she is okay


basically what happens when you fall on your head is there is an impact that can damage the internal brain structures and if loss of speech is because of that than it does not recover by itself and it takes long to come back
but if it was for some time I think it was shock like state for her and that’s why she was motion less and speech less which is now okay

what you can do to confirm -
best is to do a CT scan brain without contrast and you can rule out all the major abnormalities

but again as a doctor I don’t think there is any damage to the brain


I hope I answered the questions

lemme know if any more questions would be happy to help

best regards

Dr Raza Ali
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What Causes Speechlessness After A Head Injury?

okay as I have understood your question there was a transient loss of speech and now she is okay basically what happens when you fall on your head is there is an impact that can damage the internal brain structures and if loss of speech is because of that than it does not recover by itself and it takes long to come back but if it was for some time I think it was shock like state for her and that’s why she was motion less and speech less which is now okay what you can do to confirm - best is to do a CT scan brain without contrast and you can rule out all the major abnormalities but again as a doctor I don’t think there is any damage to the brain I hope I answered the questions lemme know if any more questions would be happy to help best regards Dr Raza Ali