Keeping Kids Healthy By Sally Robinson and Keith Bly We need to
remind parents that there are serious types of injuries that
occur in sports-related accidents. These are head injuries and
blunt-trauma injuries to the abdomen. These types of injuries
require a very different type of immediate attention. According
to the Academy of American Pediatrics, injuries to the head can
be divided into two categories — external and internal.
External, while frightening to see, usually just involves a
scalp injury. While seeing your child’s scalp bleeding may cause
your heart to skip a beat, internal head injuries are far more
serious because of the implications of a life-threatening brain
injury. Some blows to the scalp may cause swelling below the
skin from the blood leaking into the scalp, this is called a
“goose egg” and may take days or weeks to disappear, depending
on the amount of fluid/blood that leaked. Below is a list of
what to do and what to look for if a scalp injury occurs. • If
the infant or child loses con