Possible causes of Confusion and headache
27 conditions can cause this symptom. Most common are listed first.
- Brain tumor (cancer) Common Urgent Pediatric
- Carbon monoxide poisoning Common Urgent
- Concussion (head injury) Common Pediatric
- Encephalitis (brain infection) Common Urgent
- Epidural hematoma (bleeding outside of the brain or spinal cord) Common Urgent
- Hydrocephalus (fluid on the brain) Common Urgent
- Hypertensive emergency (blood pressure emergency) Common Urgent
- Meningitis (brain spine infection) Common Urgent Pediatric
- Pseudotumor cerebri (elevated brain pressure) Common Urgent
- Subarachnoid hemorrhage (brain bleeding) Common Urgent
- Altitude illness Urgent
- Astrocytoma (brain tumor glioma) Urgent Pediatric
- Basilar skull fracture (broken bone) Urgent
- Brain abscess (collection of pus) Urgent
- Brain arteriovenous malformation (AVM) Urgent
- Cerebral aneurysm (brain artery dilation) Urgent
- Cerebral contusion (bruise of brain) Urgent
- Epidural abscess (brain spine abscess) Urgent
- Meningioma (brain tumor) Pediatric
- Rabies Urgent
- Raised intracranial pressure (elevated brain pressure) Urgent
- Reyes syndrome Urgent
- Skull fracture (broken bone) Urgent Pediatric
- Subdural hematoma (bleeding on brain) Urgent Pediatric
- Tick borne encephalitis (brain infection) Urgent
- Typhoid fever (salmonella typhi infection) Urgent
- West Nile virus infection Urgent Pediatric