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atonic seassures?! help please
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 02:28I have a son who is 3 years 3 months old, about two months ago when having temperature around 38,5 C he fell on the floor after sneezing, he sneezed and fell to the front, he was straight, like a "wooden board", he didn't colapse like he is fainting but he didn't use hands to protect himself...and he was conscious the whole time, it lasted only a second and he was fine afterwords...I thought he lost his balance because of the sneezing and temperature...but two weeks ago, it happened again, he was sitting down (in the kindergarten) and he fell forward to his forehead, he was conscious and even answered a kindergarten teacher's questions a second before...it lasted a second or two again and he was conscious, he also had temperature around 38 c.
We went to see neuropediatrician yesterday, she wants us to do EEG, she thinks it's a atonic seissure. I read about those seissures and saw some you tube videos, it doesn't look like that to me, he didn't colapse to the floor like he became limb...His father (35) has type 1 diabetes since he was 15.
I read that seassures can have conection with diabetes too. Though he has no diabetes
symptomes...
Sorry for my grammar mistakes, I live in Croatia/Europe
Thanks a lot.
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Re: atonic seassures?! help please
Submitted by dragana on Wed, 2013-04-24 - 02:24
thanks a lot for your answer, after eeg we will probably do ctg or MR, is there any possibility thet these are febril convulsiond because they occured while he had a fever? Do they happen to your son when he has fever?
I'm sorry your son has this. How old is he? How often does it happen?
thanks a lot for your answer, after eeg we will probably do ctg or MR, is there any possibility thet these are febril convulsiond because they occured while he had a fever? Do they happen to your son when he has fever?
I'm sorry your son has this. How old is he? How often does it happen?
Re: atonic seassures?! help please
Submitted by mereloaded on Tue, 2013-04-23 - 14:33
I am sorry about all of this, I know it is quite scary. Please know that seizure manifest themselves if different ways and they also can change. it does sound like an atonic seizure, sometimes known as a "drop seizure" where simply "the knees buckle" for a second and there is no loss of consciousnesses, they simply fall for a second and then they pick up and go with no troubles. Sometimes there is the stiffened of the limbs, also another way to seize. My son gets so stiff like a board, it is very scary. He started with the drop seizures, I though he was tired or sleepy or trip on something. Now I know what that was. The EEG is a great diagnostic tool. That is the onlt way to know. Your grammar is fine! Good luck