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Skull fracture

Fri, 01/05/2018 - 21:57
My daughter had a skull fracture two years ago. She was one month when it happened. No evidence of seizures yet. Should I be concerned? I am still frightened about it and it cannot escape my mind. I will never forget it but I am less hard on myself. I just read stories of how 10 years later it could show up. Anyone?

Comments

is this worry helping anyone?

Submitted by Amy Jo on Sat, 2018-01-06 - 02:09
is this worry helping anyone? for areas where there is literally nothing you can do about something, it seems like such worries are robbing you of living life fully right now with your child. if this is taking over your ability to function or just another thing in a long list of worries, get a therapist. whatever happens in life (and life throws plenty at everyone over time), your kids will always need the best adjusted parent possible, the parent most able to deal with what’s happening now.you can’t plan your kids’ lives. you can’t forestall a number of health conditions. you can invest in your kids. you can cross bridges when you get to them. sometimes one can see a potential bridge and plan ahead but your question is too far out for that to be reasonable.

Well for your information it

Submitted by just_joe on Sun, 2018-01-07 - 19:30
Well for your information it doesn't have to be a skull fracture many things can cause a person to get epilepsy. Was she taken to the hospital and looked after and checked after the fracture? Were MRI's done? With todays technology they might have helped her to the point you shouldn't worry about. Relax and don't think about it since everything was done for here back then. IF and that is a if she has a seizure there would be something else that causes it.If you really want to double check to see that everything is fine then ask a neurologist to run an MRI to see if there was anything wrong with her brain after the skull fracture.I am one of the people who knows about something on the brain causing their epilepsy. Concussions can cause bleeding on the brain. That blood can cause scar tissue. That scar tissue can be the cause of a persons epilepsy. Back in the 1950's they didn't have the technology they have today. Mom was told the scar tissue was before or after birth. For the longest time she thought it was when she was carrying me since she fell and hit something hard while I was in the womb. Doc and I were looking at different procedures that can help control seizures. In the MRI I had done the scar tissue was when I was 6-8 yoa when it was done. I was 7 and the ladder rung came out.top rung came out when I was on it, I hit the steel rail of the top bunk spinning my head around and slamming my mouth into the bottom rail knocking out 4 teeth and gashing the inside of my mouth which needed 32-36 stiches.If you are really worried then have a neurologist run a MRIJoe

If they said there will be

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2018-01-08 - 19:49
If they said there will be scar tissue then that might be the cause. I didn't fracture my skull but the concussion bled and that left scar tissue. The only way to know for sure is if she has one. Well what would cause the scar tissue other then  bleeding? Or it being damaged in some way? All it takes is a cell growth to grow wrong for someone to get epilepsy. Anything different on the brain and scar tissue is different can cause electrical impulses to hit wrong. A seizure is the chain reaction cause by an electrical impulse hitting wrong in the brain. Kind of like your heart beat causing your blood pressure to go up. meds are designed to keep your heart rate going at a certain rate. Electrical impulses make the heart beat.

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