Pediatric seizure disorders symptoms
Common Questions and Answers about Pediatric seizure disorders symptoms
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Many people with abnormal EEGs never have any symptoms of it (me,) or have 1 seizure their entire life. On the other hand, many epileptics have completely normal EEGs (my son.)
However, since there has been a seizure and an abnormal EEG, the risk for another seizure is a bit higher than if the EEG had been normal. You'll want to monitor your daughter carefully with it in the back of your mind. She may very well never have another seizure in her life!
The main criteria that establish a diagnosis of abdominal epilepsy include episodes of GI complaints that are unexplained by complete evaluation (which it sounds like your daughter has had), and a sustained abolition of symptoms on anticonvulsant medication (such as lamotrigine). While seizure activity per se is not a diagnostic criteria, many children with abdominal epilepsy will have EEG abnormalities.
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my 13 month old niiece has been having seizure like symptoms. she is awake her muscles stiffen and she rocks as if doing stomach crunches. it lasts more than 30 seconds each time and happens a number of times. afterwards she is sweating and exhausted
she recently went to the hospital. 3 pediatric doctors saw her doing it and said it was a habit and nothing to worrry about.
My 16 yr old daughter was taken to the doctors 12 days ago due to dizzyness, weakness & three strange lumps (1 on her index finger, 1 on back of thigh, 1 near ribcage; lumps do not hurt and do not seem to be "attached" to muscles and cause no pain). Doc said she probably had a virus. 3 days ago she had a seizure like a granmal. 1st one she's ever had. Blood tests were unremarklable however a CT and MRI showed lesions on her frontal lobe.
t give a referral, just go around the system and get him to a neuro on your own, most preferably a pediatric neurologist, they know more about this childhood seizure or fainting type behavior than a regular neuro.
I realize that smaller children do have these things happen sometimes and there's nothing wrong, but there are also those that DO have something wrong, so better safe than sorry.
You will need to have her examined by a pediatric endochronologist. Begin keeping a journal of symptoms and dates now to bring with you. I wish you good luck with this, as I can relate to how it feels to have a child who does not feel well.God bless and don't give up! Our little girls are counting on us!!!
If there are other manifestations, sometimes undiagnosed cause of abdominal pain is something called porphyria, for which specific testing exists. Also, if there is suspiscion based on multiple other symptoms, mitochondrial disorders can present with neurologic abnormalities along with GI symptoms. Conditions such as Cyclic vomiting can also present with episodes of vomiting with no underlying cause.
spells but are concerned because the seizures continue for a minute or more.The usual seizure like activity associated with breath holding only last around 15 seconds and are usually not seizures.He has a very long recovery time associated with seizure episodes but his EEG, CT scan, chest xrays, blood work and EKG all came back normal. They have referred me to a specialist in pediatric neurology but his appt is not for another week.
This area also has diminished CSF flow and he has referred us to a neurosurgeon. Many of the symptoms of the chiari are symptoms my son has had and I had relaed to the CP or the psych meds. Now I am confused as to what the malformation may truly be causing and what really are things that his other health issues are causing. Do these typically require surgery? I have an appt with the surgeon in a week to figure it out...but my mind won't let me think of much else.
This is by no means diagnostic of epilepsy, although it should be noted that patients with seizure disorders tend to have a high incidence of comorbid psychiatric and behavioral problems.
What does this mean for you? I don't mean to alarm you but I think it is important for you to be informed of what this could be. My advice would be to seek out a pediatric neurologist or epileptologist (a neurologist that specializes in seizure) who can better evaluate your son.
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...
Hi Harsha,
Not sure if your daughter gets seizure during fever only.
My son also gets seizure whenever he has High fever, this problem started when he was 18 months.
Doctors prescribed Frisium 5 mg whenever he gets fever 12 th Hourly whenever we notice fever.
It dint work well in his case and most of the time he got seizures after giving Frisium also. The number of episode is 5 to 6
We were told that febrile seizures should stop after the age of 5 .He is 4 yrs.
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.
HI,
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.
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