In the event that you have to receive treatment for brain injury, if your doctor has examined you and rendered the opinion that the injury is not severe enough to be hospitalized, you can recover at home. Below are the practices that the patient should give importance to.
Self-care During Home Recovery
- Refrain from all types of exercise for at least 24 hours.
- Eat only soft foods.
- Take pain medications according to your doctor’s prescription.
- Have caregiver provide close care and attention.
If you have any of the following symptoms, you should immediately return to the doctor:
- Excessive drowsiness or loss of consciousness.
- Agitation, speech difficulty or seizures.
- Weakness in the arms and legs.
- Very slow heart rate or high fever.
- Significant nausea and continuous vomiting.
- Severe headache without improvement in symptoms.
- Bleeding with clear fluids or discharge of clear fluids through the ears or nose. (If there is any such discharge, you should not try to wipe or expel it).
- Neck stiffness.
- Significant dizziness or blurred vision with throbbing pain in the eyes.
- Other suspicious symptoms.
Because the brain is a major organ that can suffer from life-threatening impacts, monitoring for abnormal symptoms is something patients and caregivers should never overlook.
