Seizure disorders teachers
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My 7 year old son has fluttered his fingers for 4 years( i think). When he does it he opens his mouth very wide and "zones out" The finger fluttering is very fast and seems to sometimes tie into visual stimulation. He has been tested 3 times. the first 2 tests we were told it was a soothing comfort thing and he would outgrow it due to peer pressure.
The last time she said my son had "No knowledge or concept of danger and didn't listen well.
My 7 y.o. daughter is doing excellent in school with no social problems; however, at home her behavior runs the gamut from sweet and helpful to throwing v. bad tantums almost daily, especially when she doesn't get her way. One issue I am worried about is that she always feels SHE is right, over her parent's input or even saying that her teacher really doesn't know the best way to make a script letter and she insists her way is better.
My daughter was diagnosed with CP, sensory intetgration, ADHD, and had suffer from seizures, but has been seizure free for about 3 years (so we think, nothing witnessed). She was first on trileptal, then added keppra, then d/c'd the trileptal. About 1 1/2 years ago they d/c'd her keppra, due to being seizure free for a couple of years and her dose was so low that on her last labs it did not even register. She got very ill in February of this year with the flu, then strep throat....
At home we need to be strict then he does what we want. Teachers do not find that he has learning disorders. He is quite intelligent and at times surprises us with his intelligence.
We find his behavior normal. I myself am focussed and cannot do two things. Teachers have asked to consult a doctor.
What do we conclude?
There is no simple, definitive test for a seizure disorder. Often, seizure disorders are diagnosed based on patient history and observation of a seizure. If your daughter had a seizure lasting 30 min., that would qualify for a diagnosis in the minds of many clinicians. I'm sure you'll follow up with the diagnosing doctors and others as necessary. I hope the seizure turns out to be a one-time event.
Are there any other teachers out there or pregnant moms with hectic jobs. How do you keep your composure?
Meaning that if an EEG is done during an attack (such as the convulsion you describe above) and the EEG shows the seizure in the brain waves, then the seizure can be confirmed. In other people, convulsions occur but these are due to stress and not true seizures coming from epileptic activity in the brain, in which case the EEG will not show epileptic activity during the convulsion.
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An epileptic cannot have both a complex partial seizure disorder and a generalized seizure disroder. People with a generalized seizure disorder are usually born with it, while people with partial or complex partial get it sometime during thier life. Generlaized seizures occurr over the entire brain, while complex partial only occurr in a section of the brain.
I have complex partial seizures that occurr in my right temporal lobe. They started from a head injury I got when I was three.
In support of ADHD, however, these medications for children with ADHD without seizure disorders are a Godsend if diet changes and behavior modifications do not help. The right medication has to be found for each individual child just like other disorders. ADHD is neural disorder just as seizure disorders. Both affect the brain but in different ways. With ADHD there in not enough neural activity in the frontal cortex; but with seizures there is too much neural activiy all over the brain.
(Currently available) antipsychotics can cause permenant movement disorder such as tardive dyskinesia. However, they must wait a period of time for withdrawl dyskineis to pass. From my knowledge atypical antipsychotics can increase the seizure threshold but this effect is generally not permanent. It would be best to see a neurologist who is a movement disorders specialist and have them do full follow up including an EEG (the specific kind to try to set off seizures) and an MRI.
t ever let anyone, even teachers, pressure you to medicate your child. They are way overmedicating children anymore in our schools without checking out all the other options.
For instance, APD (Audio Processing Disorder) mimicks ADD and many parents put their kids on Ritalin thinking they have ADHD when they actually have APD. We found out my daughter has APD. She passed a normal hearing test but not the extensive tests the Audiologist gave her. She has trouble with verbal instructions.
I would definitely take her to the vet, although not necessarily to have her put down. I would let the vet examine her to see what he/she thinks the problem could be and take it from there. Seizure disorders can be managed medically, it's not necessarily the end of the line just because she had a seizure. I would, however, definitely get the vet involved.
t know any of his teachers names even though he had these teachers last year and the year before. Another time we were getting ready to go some where and I told him to go get in the car when I got out there he was a half a block away, When I caught up to him he didn't know where he was going or why he was walking.
We ended up taking him to the ER once again, this time they admitted him and he was in the hospital for 7 days. They did a MRI and EEG, and everything once again was normal.
Conversion disorders are disorders in which the patient suffers from symptoms of diseases that he does not actually have. The symptoms of a pseudoseizure are almost same as those of an epileptic seizure, but their origin is psychological, not neurological. One of the characteristic differentiating feature of an epileptic seizure is that there is an abnormal discharge of electricity from the brain during the seizure whereas there is no such electrical discharge during a pseudoseizure.
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In adults the choice of an antiepileptic drug depends on several factors like type of seizure, associated medical disorders and use of any medications etc.Dilantin,carbamezapine,valproate can be used in temporal lobe seizures.Topamax,keppra,lamotrigine can be used as add on drugs with medications mentioned above.Dilantin doesn’t cause depression but can cause decrease in renal function,headache,dizziness,confusion,double vision etc.
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This may just be a normal mannerism of your child, or this may be something else such as some form of seizure called 'absence' (pronounced as absanz) seizure, or petit mal. This is similar to some accounts of parents or school teachers observing some students to be 'daydreaming' well in fact the student is already having a fit.
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