Son - New patient - HELP!!!
 

Hello -
I have a ?
My 11-year-old son fell slipped in the basement of our church & hit the back of his head on a concrete wall. He did black out for a few seconds and when he awoke the room was spinning. This was on December 21. He went on to be totally normal - until January 20 when he developed nausea/abdominal pain & was a few days later diagnosed with strep throat. After strep throat treatment he has had persistent and constant nauesa. It is now February 23 and he continues with the nausea. We have been admitted to the hospital twice for evaluation of this extreme nausea ... he has had and upper GI scope done which showed his stomach to be beautiful. Blood tests confirm the strep is gone as the white count has returned to normal & the throat cultures are negative. He has more recently develped a little headache that moves from one side of his head to another. MRI scan of the head was negative. Also is now developing some dizziness on/off. The neurologist is calling is post concussive syndrome but even she admits most patients have more headache and less nauesea and I can't understand him being just fine for 4 weeks after the injury & this nausea beginning with strep throat. Any help any of you can give me would be appreciated. I can't help but feel the cause of his persistent and chronic nausea has not been found.

When you first posted to me it also sounded like Post traumatic concussion.

I agree it usually hits right away. But I am guessing to a degree he was not
real active for about 2 weeks after it happened. Due to christmas and other activites. Because school is usually out for a while around then.

So it could be partially the strep throat and this both. My one suggestion
would be to make sure the infection is gone. Sometimes infections cause
things to continue. But I've heard of few cases of this happening to be
nausea. But the dizziness and other it could also be inner ear. And nausea is
involved there.

I would suggest you take him to a special kind of Neuro-opthamogist. They have someone sometimes that can check the ear for special conditions that
cause some issues. Also it could be a aura and its stopping the headache
from getting worse.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

Hello and Welcome to NeuroTalk!!
 

tmba,

:Wave-Hello:Hello and welcome, happy to see you have come to be with us, it a great place to be. As you can see we have a great number and caring fellow members here, welcome to a supportive and relaxing place. Have fun looking into the different forums. Our shoulders are here for support in many ways.

I will agree with Donna to check with a Neuro-opthamogist, My grandson just went something like that, but he was seeing double. What had happen was that a hear infection moved into behind his eyes and he had symptoms just let your son. Please keep us up to date.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around. My thoughts and prayers are with you. :smileypray:

Darlene :hug:

Hello tmba!
 

Welcome to NT! :hug:

You'll find alot of caring people here. I know how hard this must be on you from a mother's standpoint. :(
There are many forums here that will be of great help. Something around every corner....Here's a couple:

The Post-Traumatic Head Injury:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...sprune=-1&f=92

The Headache forum:
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/fo...sprune=-1&f=32

It's so good to have you!

Caring,
Rae
:grouphug: