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Daughter's Seizure

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?
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I started having seizures as a young teen. My Mom scouted around 2 generations on both sides of my family to see if ANYONE had epilespy (living or dead) and so it seemed, I was the only one to develope this problem. I was told by the interns at a state hospital that I must have hit the soft spot on my head. (Docs used forcets when I was born and the soft spot never healed) Anyhow, I was tried on several anti-seizure meds. pheno with dilantin was one of them. The interns told Mom they had to slow my system down. Mom told them about some situations that occurred and they put me on regular dilantin, tegretol and 10mg of valium. Sure I still slept alot, but I knew when I was going to sleep. Like the Doctor said you have the weigh the good with the bad. When the meds stops the seizures, she'll come around. I did.
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Denise
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Hello.

The dose of phenobarbitone that she is taking is apt for the condition. But it does have the sedation as a side effect. This is a situation where you have to weigh the side effects against the risks of the disease. The sedation will be more acceptable than the seizures.

Benign rolandic epilepsy is inherited. She does appear to have inherited it from you. It has a favorable outcome.

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