My son is under treatment for grand mal seizures. He just had a grand mal this morning, while he was standing in the bathroom. While his staff was trying to help him lie down so she could get help, he jerked and fell out of her arms and hit his head on the bathroom floor. He seems fine now, but I don t know enough about internal bleeding. If we took him to get it checked out, what would they do? He has low cognitive functioning due to brain injury in infancy, so it is really hard to do anything with him at the hospital and I dont want to go if we don t have to.
Hi, The problem with a traumatic head injury as you described is that there is always a small chance he could be suffering from a brain bleed that will continue unchecked if not detected early. Patients often don't feel very much during this early phase of things but then, by the time it is realized something is wrong, things are more complicated. I believe it is best to take him for a medical evaluation and to allow the doctor to examine him to make a decision whether an imaging study is necessary or not.  Sedation is always an option and very routinely done for patients who may move about too much during the scan. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Thank you.