seizure infant

You really need your pediatric neurologist to evaluate your baby for the type of seizure. My newborn had seizures during his first week and is on seizure control meds (phenobarbitol) to control it. Seizures were different, however. Try not to worry, you probably need medications to control them. They might want to do an MRI and CT scan to verify any brain damage...

What does one do if your infant has a seizure? I'd like to do something? But, all i'm doing now is comforting him and waiting til he stops.

Her whole body becomes stiff (not her arms). My pediatrition says it could be infant masterbation but she is not touching herself or rubbing on anything or humping. She just clenches her buttocks in and out. It looks a bit like a seizure but she tracks and is alert. She does this for long periods of time. This doesn't cause her any discomfort except if I try to stop it. What is this?

the doctor gave him some medicine and sent him on his way after 24 hours seizure free. he went to a neurologist a couple of days later and the specialist there took him off the meds and said he was fine and that he'd grow out of it. he just had another one yesterday and this time they said that he had a bacterial infection. well, i'm tired of waiting for him to grow out of it while i watch him keep having more and more seizures.

First & foremost, please discuss this with your doctor! I know it's embarrassing but your doctor is trained to deal with stuff like this. They can help you safely stop taking this medication. Tramadol does have a high risk of seizure, I had a seizure while I was holding my infant daughter & it was caused by Tramadol. Be safe, do the right thing & come clean with your doc!

His 1st seizure was just a jerk to the right leg and his eyes were fixed to the side and was not responding. Took him to the E.R and they dismissed him after doing general blood tests. 1 hour after I got home he had a Tonic Clonic seizure and turned blue. I called 911. They look him to Children Hospital in St. Paul. They put him the Epilepsy Unit and did an EEG. They found 5 other Myclonic seizures in his sleep. MRI looked fine and all blood tests came back fine.

No sounds made, just slight trembling of entire body--especially visible in upper body (head, arms, etc.) Seemed like a mild seizure. I could stop them by taking away his bottle /waking him up. They lasted about 30 seconds or so (but I didn't let them end naturally). I have a referral now to see a pediatrician, but should I insist on a neurology specialst to be sure to rule out anything serious?

Is there any way that a seizure would not pick up on an EEG for an infant? If these are not Sandifiers and not seizures, what else could they be? What should I look into?

I have been battling with doctors for the last 9 months about my daughter and what I believe is a heart condition. Since she's been 5 weeks old (now 11 months) she has had this blue around her mouth. EVERYTIME they keep telling me that it's just because she's fair skinned. She had a difficult time nursing and still has a difficult time with a bottle. She is in the 5th percentile for her weight at 17lbs and has been put on a higher calorie diet.

My daughter is 11 and has scarring in her left temporal lobe and was started on Topamax a year and a half ago. She had had a grand mal seizure, but her main seizures consisted of a funny feeling in her stomach and dizziness. The doctor she was seeing said once she was seizure free for 2 years (she has been seizure free a year and half) she would recommend a second opinion but would like to try taking her off her Topamax. Her doctor has since left the practice and on the last appt.

My 2 week old infant has been in the NICU. He has recieved 1 ct scan 2 EEGs 1 MRI. The ct scan came back normal. The first EEG showed seizure activity. The second EEG showed seizures controlled by phenobarbatol. MRI came back with "indistinctness between white-gray matter in the frontparietal regions of the brain. What does this mean?

Your description is toward complex partial seizure and not absence seizure.

my son is 17 and had a seizure at school friday he has no health hx at all. i am an icu rn and i noticed on his telemtry that he has a very short pr interval wide qrs and a delta wave. the rate would very suddenly go from 30 to 110 and back again very frequently, looks to me like wpw but I have not known of people having siezures with this is that common?

Since then, every somewhat elevated temperature will result in a seizure. We have been to the emergency a few times and were always told that he is in fact experiencing febrile seizures which are of no concern. The seizures never last longer than a few minutes, at most. One ER doctor did however order an EEG since on one occasion he's had multiple seizures (10 short seizures in 2 hours). The EEG showed "activity" on one side of the brain (right temple).

Well per my own research, per epilepsy.com, an aura is a simple partial seizure. I can't believe how long my question has been posted on this site without a response, Over two months. I do enjoy reading this forum though. I find it interesting and can relate to some of the other symptoms that others go through. Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!

hey guys I just had a very stressful situation my daughters school called and she had seizure in class so I had to run to her school, all is well and she is resting now. Feeling a little better then earlier not as down thanks to all you guys you lifted my spirits! I think though in a way I am still feling a little bit of WD cause I will get hot and then cold easily and I am sneezing and yawning a whole lot, well and then of course the hole sleep thing and the RLS.

Almost 2 years ago she had what appeared to be a tonic-clonic seizure. We live in a very rural area. By the time we got to a hospital and an EEG was performed (about 3 hours after the episode) the only abnormalities appeared to be a slowing of brain waves. Around that time frame, I began to notice she would have "spasms" involving her entire body. She has had them every since, but I am noticing more frequency since she began menstruation.

ok so here is whats going on I have tonic clonic seizures but I also have these other things they assumed were some other type of seizure they know are saying they arent seizures and no one can tell me what they are but they happen sometimes 30 times a day and the seizure meds do slow them down and make them weaker but dont stop them where the tonic clonics are controled!

This uptick in severity sent me to the ER at Dupont with her. An EEG showed no signs of seizure activity (she did do it during the EEG), and the neuro said it did not look epilleptic in nature, and was likely benign. We are doing a follow up 24 hour EEG next week. I am wondering, though, if it could be related to an inner ear problem, such as vertigo? The fact that it is always associated with positional changes made me wonder. And if it is not vertigo, and not seizures, what else could it be?

This uptick in severity sent me to the ER at Dupont with her. An EEG showed no signs of seizure activity (she did do it during the EEG), and the neuro said it did not look epilleptic in nature, and was likely benign. We are doing a follow up 24 hour EEG next week. I am wondering, though, if it could be related to an inner ear problem, such as vertigo? The fact that it is always associated with positional changes made me wonder. And if it is not vertigo, and not seizures, what else could it be?

Mine comes on sudden and I have not been able to connect it with any particular thing I am doing at the time of the attack, and the ones that are really bad, I end up losing my breath, going into some god awful seizure, where I am shaking and cannot control it, sometimes pee myself, and I can fall to the ground, if I do not steady myself beforehand.

I am a doctor in the Philippines. I have 3 y/o son who had a Seizure Disorder when he was 6months old which eventually resolved when he was 2 y/o. He also has Global Developmental Delay and has Sensory Integration Dysfunction and Oral Aversion is a major problem. He only drinks milk mixed with infant cereal using his baby bottle and would not take anything else in his mouth. He has been undergoing Occupational And Physical Therapy since 5months old but with very little improvement in feeding.

As I started reading this, it definitely sounded like seizure activity to me. I had a few febrile convulsions as an infant and then have had a seizure disorder for the last 26 years. However, if it was seizure related, it should have shown up on the EEGs. Kids do some strange things during tantrums so, since the EEGs were normal, it is probably just behavioral.

I came across your stories while trying to obtain any information on infant brain aneurysm. There isn't much out there! My two week old is presently admitted at Doernbecher Children's Hospital. We came here after spending a night in the ER at a different hospital where we brought him in because he had a high-pitched cry, was lethargic and limp, pale and refusing to eat (he is exclusively breast fed), and then he gurgled up thick white curdled mucousy milk.

all brain functions seem to be normal as well as all other tests. these days she is like an infant most of the time she deficates and urinates all over her self at night she loses days at a time and cant remember any thing.

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