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My 4 year old son was hospitalized this week due to having 3 seizures within an hour. Here is our brief story so far:
Approximately a month ago, while suffering from an upper respiratory infection and an asthma attack, my son had what we thought at the time was a fainting spell. Originally, the pediatrician thought it was a one time incident of fainting and left it at that. After this week's events, we have been informed that was incorrect, he actually had some sort of seizure.
Now, I will fast forward to this week. We were waiting in line to pick up food when he began complaining of being tired and wanting to be picked up. As a typical mom, I told him that he was ok standing and that it wouldn't be long, when all of a sudden, he seemed to stumble backwards and fell onto the floor. When I went to pick him up, thinking he had just tripped, he was disoriented and seemed to be gasping/gagging. I talked to him for about 30 seconds to a minute and then he seemed to be fairly "normal" again. About 5 minutes later, he asked me to put him down on the ground, so I did. He stood there for a minute or so and then he just slumped to the ground. Again, when I went to pick him up, he was gasping/gagging and his eyes were twitching. As I held him, his whole body shuddered/jerked. I took him immediately to the ER.
Once we arrived at the ER, they took him to an exam room to triage him. When the nurse put the blood pressure cuff on him to take his vitals, he started to go into a full blown tonic clonic grand mal seizure that lasted 3 to 4 minutes(complete with curling up into fetal position and foaming at the mouth.) The nurse called for Ativan, but the seizure had stopped right as they got there with it. He remained postictal for about 30 to 45 minutes afterward, with a few eye flutters during that time. He slept for roughly 4 to 6 hours after the seizures and also developed a fever of 102.5 after the seizure episodes that never returned once he was given tylenol and motrin to break the fever.
He had a CT scan, chest x-ray, blood work, urine analysis, EKG and a lumbar puncture; all of which came back clear. Then the hospital did an EEG (which thankfully he slept through.) The EEG apparently showed signs that he is "prone to seizures" but that was as far as the hospital neurologist took it. He sent us home and told us to "not allow to participate in activities where he could be hurt if he had a seizure and to notify our primary doctor if he has another seizure."
We saw his primary care pediatrician today, which wanted him seen by another neurologist ASAP. He is being seen on Tuesday and my head is swimming with what type of information to expect or to even ask for when he sees this doctor. There is a family history of childhood seizures (my sister had them from the age of 4/5 until her teen years but they were triggered by an accidental fall.) And a doctor previously thought I had absence seizures on and off for a year about 5 years ago after I suffered a TIA and complicated migraines with stroke-like phenomena.
I am open to any and all advice/comments anyone wants to give in this instance and with any luck, I will find some answers for my little boy, soon.
Approximately a month ago, while suffering from an upper respiratory infection and an asthma attack, my son had what we thought at the time was a fainting spell. Originally, the pediatrician thought it was a one time incident of fainting and left it at that. After this week's events, we have been informed that was incorrect, he actually had some sort of seizure.
Now, I will fast forward to this week. We were waiting in line to pick up food when he began complaining of being tired and wanting to be picked up. As a typical mom, I told him that he was ok standing and that it wouldn't be long, when all of a sudden, he seemed to stumble backwards and fell onto the floor. When I went to pick him up, thinking he had just tripped, he was disoriented and seemed to be gasping/gagging. I talked to him for about 30 seconds to a minute and then he seemed to be fairly "normal" again. About 5 minutes later, he asked me to put him down on the ground, so I did. He stood there for a minute or so and then he just slumped to the ground. Again, when I went to pick him up, he was gasping/gagging and his eyes were twitching. As I held him, his whole body shuddered/jerked. I took him immediately to the ER.
Once we arrived at the ER, they took him to an exam room to triage him. When the nurse put the blood pressure cuff on him to take his vitals, he started to go into a full blown tonic clonic grand mal seizure that lasted 3 to 4 minutes(complete with curling up into fetal position and foaming at the mouth.) The nurse called for Ativan, but the seizure had stopped right as they got there with it. He remained postictal for about 30 to 45 minutes afterward, with a few eye flutters during that time. He slept for roughly 4 to 6 hours after the seizures and also developed a fever of 102.5 after the seizure episodes that never returned once he was given tylenol and motrin to break the fever.
He had a CT scan, chest x-ray, blood work, urine analysis, EKG and a lumbar puncture; all of which came back clear. Then the hospital did an EEG (which thankfully he slept through.) The EEG apparently showed signs that he is "prone to seizures" but that was as far as the hospital neurologist took it. He sent us home and told us to "not allow to participate in activities where he could be hurt if he had a seizure and to notify our primary doctor if he has another seizure."
We saw his primary care pediatrician today, which wanted him seen by another neurologist ASAP. He is being seen on Tuesday and my head is swimming with what type of information to expect or to even ask for when he sees this doctor. There is a family history of childhood seizures (my sister had them from the age of 4/5 until her teen years but they were triggered by an accidental fall.) And a doctor previously thought I had absence seizures on and off for a year about 5 years ago after I suffered a TIA and complicated migraines with stroke-like phenomena.
I am open to any and all advice/comments anyone wants to give in this instance and with any luck, I will find some answers for my little boy, soon.