Febrile seizure in babies
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My son is 3yrs he will be 4 in June, perfectly normal little boy with normal development, no seizure history in both sides of the family. His 1st seizure was feb 17, 2011 lasted about a minute, the night before he had a high fever and later that same day also. Both fevers were treated. On the first episode he spent the night at the hospital for observation because when they took his temperature in the emergency room it was actually low 96F.
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).
The only other seizure she had was at 15 months, and again, was a febrile seizure. She had had numerous fevers in the intervening 4 years but no seizure, even when her fevers were caused by tropical viruses. She has had no further seizures. We did a follow-up EEG and an MRI. The neurologist here in HK where we are living at the moment said that the MRI was normal but there was some slight abnormality in the EEG on both sides of the brain.
Called the dr and ran her there immediately. Did blood work and urinalysis and said she had a viral infection and febrile seizure (temp was still 103 after being cooled down).
Family history is my husband had febrile seizures to age 6. The other children we have had never had one. I run high fevers to 104.5 or slightly higher. It seems she got my tendency to run high fevers and daddy's tendency to have a seizure.
After a month, she got 2 episodes in 3 days gap. Doctors suggested to give Levipil 100ml syrup 1ml in morning and 1 ml in evening. She is not having further seizures in last 2 months now. Is it the correct medication? How much time we need to continue this medication? Any known side effects of Levipil for infants?
My daughter was diagnosed with febrile seizures at one week old. She took phenobarbitol until about six months old when she out grew the dosage and no longer displayed symptoms. She is now almost ten years old and has not had a seizure since infancy. However, within the past year she has started displaying frequent motor tics and recently vocal tics. Her motor tics started with blinking/rolling her eyes. They have progressed to neck shrugs and hand twists.
was she in the sun the whole day? it could have been sunstroke. just remember though about 5% of people will have one seizure in their lifetime and it doesn't mean that anything is wrong, just go to you GP and see what their opinion is.
She need to be seen by a Dr. ASAP. I'm an EMT, it could be anything from febrile seizure, to issues with her kidneys.
had a migraine and nausea: didn't eat but kept hydrated: did not sleep well night before
Seizure 2: had a stomach virus (or food poisoning) and kept hydrated but ate very little for approx 24 hours. Slightly sleep deprived, but not extreme.
I have read that seizures related to hypoglycemia are non epileptic. Can someone confirm this?
The neurologist basically said he couldn't find any epileptic tenancies and since it was only one seizure to not worry about it.
Tonight my sister in law came over so I could see my nieces since I've been on bed rest and haven't seen them lately. I'm very close to them and they mean the world to me. Well when we were just sitting around talking my 4 year old niece was playing with my SIL's brother who stopped over when she started crying like something was wrong with her.
Anyways, I never had epyleptic seizure and only had mild febrile seizure once when I was ~2 years old. So here is the question: When the nurse was adjusting my electrodes she kinda shook my head to make the stick onto my head and I got dizzy, as I didn't want to open my eyes I got more and more dizzy with my eyes rolling and it took me ~15 seconds to finally stop the spinning and orient my self in space. Could that sensation of spinning cause those irregularities on my EEG medical?
We are very concerned as you can imagine and every phone call to the doctor results in a 2-3 month wait before they can schedule him in (we are in Canada). I am at my wits end and would like some answers sooner than later. Could this be something more serious than febrile seizures and why isn't the medication working? Any ideas, thoughts? Thanks in advance.
I woke up suddenly with 4 ambulance staff who told me i had suffered from a seizure. It was then noted my thyrodi levels were very LOW so i had thyroxine replacement medication to manage. I was sent home, then had another one a month later, then they put me on anti-seizure medication. I have asked the neurologists, doctors, nurses if there is ANY correlation between the seizures and low thyroid reading and apparantly there is not..
By the time the ambulance got there he was breathing normal but was still totally out of it and very sleepy. They told me it was a febrile seizure and is pretty common, i googled it later and it happened exactly like a 'normal' febrile sezuire and there is no long term affects or anything. Another fever could trigger another one or he.could also never have one again. But apparently this a more common then.
She was ill with a fever, so docs felt it could be febrile seizure. She has experienced several years of recurring loss of consciousness, but revives in a few minutes. Most times she had episodes while vomiting. She always lies down to prevent falls. After taking milk out of her diet, the frequent vomiting stopped and the fainting episodes seemed to stop.....for awhile. Then, four weeks ago she was in her bedroom and cut herself accidentally with a pair of scissors...she went out.
Has her development and birth history been unremarkable? Is she neurologically “normal”? Has she ever had a febrile seizure? Is there a family history of seizures? Has she ever had head trauma or meningitis?
You should continue following up with the pediatric neurologist.
Thank you for this opportunity to answer your questions, I hope you find the information I have provided useful, good luck.
We're struggling to get to the bottom my son's issues. Since he was a year old he started getting febrile seizures, his first round brought 4 seizures in 2 days. He's had maybe 8 seizures since then and 2 of which didn't involve a fever at all. He was found passed out at his day care in February, he wasn't seen seizing or shaking but he came out of it like he would a seizure. Now, for the last 3 - 4 months, we've noticed him passing out.
I have heard keppra is bad about causing mood swings. I am on tegretol. I had my first (febrile) seizure when I was 5 and that's what I was put on. In Sept and Nov I had alot of very nasty grand mals. I'm not going to say this to scare you, but you should be aware. I have lost a good deal of my memory (as far as past memories). I can be reminded easily of some and some I have no recollection. My short term memory has been affected too.
Just try to be patient with her and your doctors.
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