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5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Fri, 04/15/2005 - 05:26
When I had my son's immunizations at his 4 month check-up he had a adverse reaction and had a seizure 20 hours after that lasted approximately 10 minutes.  He has had a total of 9 seizure since February 20th approx 1 week apart but a couple of weeks ago he had a really bad week and had 4 in a week.  The all lasted approx 10 - 20 minutes.  They vary from either his right side or left side.  He starts with his arm and it looks like he is just jerking it and can't stop, his face sometime draws a blank and other times he is cognitive sometime it goes to the leg other times it starts in the leg and moves to the arm.  The doctors are talking about putting him on meds but I am quite apprehensive because I feel the drugs are very strong for a baby and I don't want him to be like a zombie.  If anyone can give me some insight on drugs that might be easier for babies or opinions about drugs versus no drugs I am willing to listen.

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Re: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by alyssa18 on Fri, 2011-10-14 - 08:51

  same as with my daughter,  But it was when my daughter received the DPT Shot when she was 18 months old, ended up having high fevers along with seizures.     We also found out but was to late that in that year  1998   they received bad batches of the DPT shuts  but had no prof execept we were watching a show that a parent had the same thing, received the shut and had seizures after that.  she has not been the same and has been on more medications then i have ever been.   and when she was  9 she had the VNS installed.  and lessoned the amount of seizures.  she is also mentally delayed.  

I hope this helped.

 

Take care

Manny

  same as with my daughter,  But it was when my daughter received the DPT Shot when she was 18 months old, ended up having high fevers along with seizures.     We also found out but was to late that in that year  1998   they received bad batches of the DPT shuts  but had no prof execept we were watching a show that a parent had the same thing, received the shut and had seizures after that.  she has not been the same and has been on more medications then i have ever been.   and when she was  9 she had the VNS installed.  and lessoned the amount of seizures.  she is also mentally delayed.  

I hope this helped.

 

Take care

Manny

Re: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by la_femme_rose on Sun, 2009-08-23 - 18:40

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Re: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by dhong007 on Tue, 2010-06-22 - 14:02
My daughter had the same issues, she got her 4 months immunization shots and the day after she had a 2 hour seizure. She had to be admited to Childrens Hospital. She was on phenobarb, but we were not happy with the side effects of it. She did not out grow her seizures, we tried everything possible. We tried herbal and after 2 and half year, she is taking topamax and keppra. Those seem to control her seizures. I am sorry you had to deal with this ordeal. Now she has developmental delay and we found out she has severe autism. Make sure to talk with your Neurologist about a medication that will go with her, just make sure that her seizures are in control. As a parents my wife and I had to make a crucial decision to give her the meds, so far it just makes her tired and laturgic. God bless you and your family. We are not experts but we had to deal with epilepsy for almost 3 years now. Take care.

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