Thread: Shunt Inquiries
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Old 01-14-2009, 02:22 PM
tamiandrudy tamiandrudy is offline
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Originally Posted by rr14 View Post
Hi all, this is my first post here and nice to meet you all.
I have a son who is 1.5 years old and he did his 1st shunt surgery when he was 3 months old because of an arachnoid cyst.
Up until now everything is alright but today he felt down on his back when he was sitting down on the floor and my question is that is it dangerous that when he hit his back part of his head, will it affect the shunt or may it broke the shunt?
Thank you very much
You will be fine. My son has had a shunt since 5 years old, and is now 10. He has fallen, hit his head directly on the shunt, and all is well....
God bless!
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