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2.5year old had a seizure, is this a one time thing?
My son suffered a seizure 8hrs ago. He's 2.5years old.
We were having a normal day, and he followed me into the kitchen. If offered him some raspberries and noticed he kept looking up. He was standing, taking steps, but had a dazed look on his face as his eyes were looking up. I thought he spotted something but there were only cabinets.
I then began to talk to him cause that was out of the ordinary, and noticed he wasn't really conscience. Yelled for my wife to call 911, and laid him down in the living room.
He didnt have convulsions. He actually moved his arms and even legs at times as if he was coming back. This broke my heart so much to see him like this.
It took 10 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and it lasted another 10 minutes or so after. He was breathing the whole time. At one point he blinked nonstop. His face spasmed at other times too.
The convulsive behavior didn't really happen but the closest thing to it occurred when they gave him oxygen in the ambulance. He moved and jerked. Then it stopped.
I have seen seizures before and this was a less dramatic, yet longer lasting seizure. As a matter of fact, my initial thoughts weren't even seizure. It was the medical staff that jumped to that conclusion.
Neither I nor my wife have a history of epilepsy in our family. The baby didn't have anything to have provoked it. No fever or anything.
Two hours before he was hitting his head on the floor because he was frustrated his little iPad lost battery. But the CT-Scan came back fine. The bloodwork also came back fine.
He's a healthy baby boy. Very smart. Little bit speech delayed but otherwise extremely intelligent. I mean, he has an iPad and navigates it like a teen. You should see it.
What are the chances that this is going to happen again?
We were having a normal day, and he followed me into the kitchen. If offered him some raspberries and noticed he kept looking up. He was standing, taking steps, but had a dazed look on his face as his eyes were looking up. I thought he spotted something but there were only cabinets.
I then began to talk to him cause that was out of the ordinary, and noticed he wasn't really conscience. Yelled for my wife to call 911, and laid him down in the living room.
He didnt have convulsions. He actually moved his arms and even legs at times as if he was coming back. This broke my heart so much to see him like this.
It took 10 minutes for the ambulance to arrive and it lasted another 10 minutes or so after. He was breathing the whole time. At one point he blinked nonstop. His face spasmed at other times too.
The convulsive behavior didn't really happen but the closest thing to it occurred when they gave him oxygen in the ambulance. He moved and jerked. Then it stopped.
I have seen seizures before and this was a less dramatic, yet longer lasting seizure. As a matter of fact, my initial thoughts weren't even seizure. It was the medical staff that jumped to that conclusion.
Neither I nor my wife have a history of epilepsy in our family. The baby didn't have anything to have provoked it. No fever or anything.
Two hours before he was hitting his head on the floor because he was frustrated his little iPad lost battery. But the CT-Scan came back fine. The bloodwork also came back fine.
He's a healthy baby boy. Very smart. Little bit speech delayed but otherwise extremely intelligent. I mean, he has an iPad and navigates it like a teen. You should see it.
What are the chances that this is going to happen again?
I'm sorry to hear about all of this. I hope you can get some answers about what is going on with him. Be sure to come back and update us on how your son is doing.
Oh man! I just googled Landau-Kleffner Syndrome!
My son was saying a few words and then just stopped. And then he also had that seizure AT NIGHT! Both symptoms of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome!
My son was saying a few words and then just stopped. And then he also had that seizure AT NIGHT! Both symptoms of Landau-Kleffner Syndrome!
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Please do not go searching around the internet looking for possible reasons for the seizure. You will just find reason after reason and make you think the worse. As hard as it may be just wait until you go to his doctor and go from there.
Thank you, Flipper.
I know I'm asking for something no one can give me, the answers as to if this will ever happen again, but I just want to make sure he's okay.
I kept him awake until midnight last night, and then woke him up at 5am to prep for his EEG. It was performed at 11am. He slept through it for 40 minutes.
Next we have an MRI scheduled and then we speak to the neurologist.
They also put an annoying strobe light in his face for 5 minutes. It did not induce a seizure.
I know I'm asking for something no one can give me, the answers as to if this will ever happen again, but I just want to make sure he's okay.
I kept him awake until midnight last night, and then woke him up at 5am to prep for his EEG. It was performed at 11am. He slept through it for 40 minutes.
Next we have an MRI scheduled and then we speak to the neurologist.
They also put an annoying strobe light in his face for 5 minutes. It did not induce a seizure.
Thanks for the response.
I am so confused. Some aspects of it make me think absence, like you said, and others make me think partial complex.
In the end, I just want him to be okay. I sleep with him nightly ever since this happened. I don't even hit the gym myself. Something I did to prevent diabetes.
Now, I just spend every free minute with him. I can't wait for neurologist appointment.
My wife and I have recounted that day, and did notice that he didn't nap like usual and didn't eat much. Perhaps that brought it on.
My sister, when she was maybe 3ish, ran out the house to play with us without having breakfast or anything and fainted/convulsed once. But that was only once.
So maybe this was a one time thing with my little man?
I am so confused. Some aspects of it make me think absence, like you said, and others make me think partial complex.
In the end, I just want him to be okay. I sleep with him nightly ever since this happened. I don't even hit the gym myself. Something I did to prevent diabetes.
Now, I just spend every free minute with him. I can't wait for neurologist appointment.
My wife and I have recounted that day, and did notice that he didn't nap like usual and didn't eat much. Perhaps that brought it on.
My sister, when she was maybe 3ish, ran out the house to play with us without having breakfast or anything and fainted/convulsed once. But that was only once.
So maybe this was a one time thing with my little man?
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I can tell that you love your son and want the very best for him. But as hard as it may be try and get back to your regular routine before this happened. The reason that I am saying this is because if you were going to the gym to prevent diabetes than you need to keep that up. You need to keep yourself healthy to be there for him. Not only during this difficult time in his life but for all the other times he will have growing up.
It sounds like he was having what is called an Absent Seizure. Anyone can have a seizure at anytime and the doctors can not find any rhyme or reason for it. But since he did suffer one, the odds of him having another one do increase. Now I am not saying he will, I am just saying that he might. The thing that is more concerning to me is the amount of time he was having the seizure. I wish you the best of luck.
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