Brain injuries often differ from person to person and can take different initial forms depending on a number of factors.
Understanding some of these red flags is a good way of knowing how to get the right treatment at the right time.
Mild head injuries
As the Mayo Clinic states, brain injuries vary from person to person. The factors influencing the severity of a brain injury can include things like the age and health of the victim, the area where the head injury occurred, and the force or weight behind the injury itself.
Generally speaking, mild head injuries have fewer or less noticeable manifestations. This can include things like temporarily blurred vision or headaches that go away with time.
Moderate to severe head injuries
However, moderate to severe head injuries have more prominent impacts. This includes unconsciousness or coma, excruciating head pain that worsens or stays the same over time, nausea, vomiting, trouble with vision or hearing, difficulties with balance and mobility and more.
Mentally and behaviorally, victims will also usually show some signs of impact. This includes confusion, aggression, temporary loss of memory or amnesia especially surrounding the event that led to the injury, increased hostility and agitation, and general panic.
It is also common for head injury sufferers to refuse help or demand that they not get taken to the hospital. Of course, it is important for them to receive medical attention, which means taking them to see a medical professional regardless of their insistence. This is the best way to prevent potentially permanent damage.
