My 3 year old daughter woke up from a late nap and when she approached us we noticed her teeth were clenched, mouth was frothing and the left side of her upper lift was curled almost to her nostril. We tried to get her to communicate with us; she clapped my hand with her right hand when I asked to her, but then she began to twitch on her left side and the jerking became more intense. We rushed her to emergency, but it took about ten minutes to get there and another ten for them to treat her symptoms before she stopped. She did not have a fever. She was given ativan and dilantin intravenously at this time. A CT scan returned negative. The next morning she was given 150 mg of dilantin and walked like a drunken sailor for the rest of the day (she weighs 20kg). We are waiting for an EEG and, in the meantime she has been prescribed phenobarbitol. This worries me. I had a few seizures as a child and grew out of them (I think I had benign rolandic epilepsy). She is presently very very drowsy and napping for long stretches. Could she be taking too much phenobarb? Could she have genetically inherited this condition and, as such, could it also be benign?