Mnetters - need your advice on this. DO I need to go to A&E?

[Saltire]

On Tuesday, DS1 had a bump on the head at school. He told he jsut banged it on the side of a wall, and that he was ok, it wasn't a hard bump or anything. There were no signs whatsoever of concussion. When he got home he wnet out to play.

Now for a bit of background. Every morning DS1 says he has a headache, this has been going onand off for a few weeks. he gets very blocked up and snotty and his headache is always on the front of his head, and sudafed usually helps.
He's not been going to sleep until 10.30/11.00pm for the past 3 nights and is up around 6am every morning.

So they are things to consider.
Now yesterday he kept going on and on about the headache and saying he wanted to stay off and said "but it's your day off anyway". But it wasn't, I told him it was today. Then this morning 6am he's in my room again saying "my head hurts", then he said "I'm sometimes seeing double, can I stay at home today with you".
So is he swinging it becasue he wants a day off? Or do I need another bloody train and taxi trip to the A&E?

Did you ask him if he was seeing double after he had the bump? Or did anyone else? If not, I would definitely take him to the doctor. If I did, I might do my "well, if you stay home you'll have to spend the day in bed lying flat with no TV or computer or anything" and see how he reacts.

It does seem to be a bad hayfever season this year - maybe he needs some Piriton or something like that?

I did ask him, and also asked if he'd been sick (last summer we spent 6 hours at A&E with him after a fall in a car park and he was very sick 2 days later). I have jsut asked him again and he sai d"well if I look at the light or things reflected in the light it looks double". Then 10 minutes later he said he headed a football and saw double then.

Part of me feels this is jsut him wanting a day off. As I said in OP he's always saying he has a headache.

Good idea about the antihistamine though, never thought of that

TBH I'd try and avoid using sudafed as it just causes the headache to rebound once it wears off. Maybe your GP could check him over rather than a trip to A&E?

He said first of all it started this monring, then he said it started last night

Medical attention definitely.

Seeing double isn't good.

He has had a headache for a long time, even without the bang, and imo that should have been checked out.

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I answered no to everything except the change in vision and got that.

It was, a while ago we told the doc about it and he said it was cattarh, and thats why we were giving him sudafed.
I'm going to ring docs now, no doubt they will say "oh well we can offer you an appointment 2 weeks from today"

Tried a different set of questions and got
this The double vision was the trigger.

Right docs say to go to A&E, as there are no appointkents fopr today and I should ahve made it 2 weeks ago. I could if I wanted go and sit and wait at the 2 hour open surgery from 11.30 till 1.30, but if they then decided that he needs to go to A&E, its going to be mid afternoon by the time I get there.
I don't need to stress of this, I really don't, have enough stress as it is.

Saltire - just a shot in the dark, but you can get dehydration headaches - does he drink enough fluids?

Hope you get it sorted.

Saltire - how is he now?

How is your Ds Saltire?

Saltire, have you had his eyes checked at the opticians? Just a thought with double vision and frontal headaches.