If you have a spinal tap and it leaks later on, should you be in bedrest?

[Deja Q]

Or taken to hospital?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. At the very least, call the doctor...if you can't contact, go to the

hospital.

[AngryAmish]

2. Hospital stat

(I'm not a doctor so take this and all other advice you get here with large grains of salt.)

Friend of mine was leaking CSF for three days. When they plugged the hole (with a blod clot) he was fine in 20 minutes. Get thee to the hospital.

[Deja Q]

4. Oh, it's not me but I'll let them know pronto.

[AirmensMom]

3. I don't know ...

but at least CALL.

[xmas74]

5. I used to be a 9-1-1 dispatcher.

If you had called me and told me this I would have had EMS en route to your home immediately. You have to worry about the risk of infection.

[southlandshari]

6. Locking

Definitely not something left to participants on an internet message board to determine.

And ESPECIALLY not the characters who loiter about in the Lounge!

;)

HypnoToad, darlin' - PLEASE call 911 or the nearest hospital for medical assistance if this is a real life scenario.