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Soft spot on head bulging
Soft spot on head is bulging is a symptom in which the soft spot (fontanelle) on top of a baby's head is more firm than usual, and is pushing up the scalp (bulging) a small amount. A momentary bulging soft spot is due to increased pressure, such as when a baby pushes to poop or when a baby is crying. If a soft spot remains bulging, and there are other ill symptoms, the baby may have meningitis.
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A 34-year old female asked:
10mth front head (end of forehead beginning of hair) is bulging. Soft spot flat, head size same but always big. History of IV hemorrhage no symptoms?
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A 18-year old female asked:
How do I remove/get rid of blood clot from my face? I don't really know if it is a blood clot or not, but it is a tiny red spot (not bulging) that I have for 3 years. I think it's not a blemish bcz I squeezed it once and blood streamed down my face?
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A 52-year old male asked:
Button on the front appeared rapidly (4 weeks) skin color wt small symmetrical colored spots, bulging, roughened, mole size? Could that be a melanoma?
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A 34-year old female asked:
I have painful black spot on my skin. Its not bulgy or contains water, just flat on the skin darkened and the area becomes painful?
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A 34-year old female asked:
Have painful black spot on my skin. not bulgy or bumpy, the just skin darkens sometimes lentil size and the area becomes painful. Appears disappears?
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A 37-year old female asked:
I have a hard round spot on my head what could it be?
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A 48-year old female asked:
Im 47 and what seems like a soft spot has come up on my head?
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A 25-year old female asked:
What would cause pressue on one spot of your head ?
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A 49-year old asked:
Pressure in one spot of my head that comes and goes ?
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A 44-year old asked:
What is this soft spot on top of my 20 year old daughters head?
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A 41-year old female asked about a female:
My daughter in 11 years she have alopcia spot on her head , what should I do ?
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A 30-year old male asked:
Is it common to feel like you have an headache come and go on a very specific spot on your head?
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A 26-year old female asked:
If you have a sentinel headache, is it all over your head or just in one spot? Is there any other symptoms?
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A 23-year old male asked:
I was born with no soft spot on my head but i don't have any head deformaties, does this mean I have craniocynostosis?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Feels like there is something crawling in my hair just on one little spot on the top of my head on the left. What could it be?
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A 25-year old male asked:
I have some white spots on my penies head before some days i have only one spot i found but today i have more than five white spots?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I have been diagnosed with gliosis. I get random pains in one certain spot in my head. I was wondering if there cause by the gliosis.
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A female asked:
I have a spot on the left side of my head that gets a feeling of a pin prick every time I move it to a side or up/down. Any insight?
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A 25-year old female asked:
Is it normal for a 3 month old's soft spot to feel closed? There's a small indent where it should be but when you feel his head it's closed.
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A 31-year old female asked:
Standing for mins I feel pressure like head rush. Bp is fine when sit to stand & always fine why do I feel this when Im standing in one spot?
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A member asked:
Why would a 5 year old still have a soft spot on his head my sons 5 years old and he still has his sof spot on top of his head like a baby dose
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A 34-year old female asked:
In the left side at the top of my head I keep having a jabbing pain sometimes burning. It's only in one small spot and not throughout my left side.
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A 27-year old female asked:
I hit the side of my head right above the temple in a soft spot. It hit on the corner of a desk...head weight + moderate velocity. Painful to touch?
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A 19-year old male asked:
I rest my head on the same spot for a long time everyday, since it rests on the same spot everyday can with time change the shape of my head or skin?
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A female asked:
Will a flat spot on a child's head, older than 2 years old, continue to minimize over time as their head grows? We were told our sons head would round
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A 16-year old male asked:
I have been having a headache for 2 weeks now .where i will feel it in one spot on my head but go away in 5 sec this will happen 5 times. Please help?
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A 45-year old female asked:
My granddaughter'status soft spot is closing too quickly. What are the chances this will slow down? At 6 months her head measured the same as 4 month
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A 25-year old female asked:
I have been having of margarines a lot at least 3 per week and nothing seems to help it OTC it's mostly in the same spot left front corner of my head?
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A 17-year old female asked:
I have a big spot covered with pus but there is no head. I put BP 5% since yesterday twice. I haven't seen any changes. How long will it take to work?
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A female asked:
My daughter is 3 and has a large soft spot still on the top of her head I read it's supposed to close between 1 and 2 and I'm terrified it's something?
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