last week my son got fall on back of his head from a chair..he fall quite hard but no bump/swollen visible..go to clinic doc says ok..so i assume he is ok la..then 2 days after the incident he vomitting 3 times n complaining got headache..he cannot sleep..bring to GH but the doc also says ok..then the next morning he still complaining about the headache.then i went to paeditrician let the doc check throughly n give a referral letter to GH..at GH they suggest to do MRI to scan my son's head..to make story short they sedate my son with ketamine n do the MRI..luckily my son's head is fine but my concern rite now is after the MRI process my son being stutter,something that i didnt notice b4 this..not sure its the adverse effect of ketamine or he just being fooling around..do ketamine is a neurotoxic substance that can make a child/toddler be stutter?

Have you feedback this development to the pediatrician? As someone who had fell on the back of my head before, there tends to be some medium-term side effects even though imaging showed no brain injury.

not yet..didn't have thought bout it..i will tell the paeditrician later..now i'm juz gonna monitor my son first for the time being..thanx tho

How old is he btw? One thing I learned is to record down the time the symptom was noticed & present it to the pediatrician so that they have a better idea on what took place.

2.5 years old..ok...will do..hope nothing serious n getting better by times

If still persists after 3 hours post MRI , seek medical attention.

the stutter still persist until now..sometimes..b4 this papa,ambik kreta tu..now papa ambik kekekereta tu..but didnt know he's juz fooling around or not

This post has been edited by budak_44: Aug 30 2019, 09:38 PM

Frankly speaking, I feel that kids at this age will usually laugh if they think what they're doing is silly / funny. Therefore, in my opinion, I don't think he's fooling around. The only thing we can't tell is if it's something to do with the concussion or the MRI contrast.

I had a head injury like your son before when I was small.

Doctors from both public and private hospitals advised me MRI was not needed.

No other treatment needed.

What I did was just rest at home.