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Break Through Seizures and Teething

Mon, 04/13/2015 - 17:31

My son is 19 months old and started having complex partial seizures at 11 months (August 2014).  His seizures are the result of a stroke he suffered very early on in utero.  He has mild muscle weakness on one side of his body, but besides that and the seizures he is developmentally on track.  His seizures started fast and hard, following what appeared to be a bout with a gastroenteritis. Within days, the vomitting was preceded by staring spells and facial flushing.  A video EEG was ordered and seizures were confirmed.  He was given one dose of Trileptol and released, despite seizing and vomiting (and our expressed concern) every 45 minutes. Four hours after being released he was airlifted back to the children's hospital in status epilepticus.  The seizure lasted 2.5 hours.  He was then given Keppra through IV. So here's my teething question....The day we brought him home from the hospital from the status episode, his first tooth errupted (late teether!). He followed the first tooth, with two more on top in the next 6 weeks.  Meanwhile, he continued to have seizures about once every 7-10 days.  Once we were up to mg/kg levels on Keppra, we added Lamictal.  This would take 8 weeks to get up to dosage.  We bridged that time with Tegretol.  From that point on, no seizures until November.  He had one seizure, and guess what, days later 2 more teeth errupted.  Then we went from early November to mid January.  On January 19, we got the immunizations that we had delayed and boom, 4 hours later a seizure, three days after that, status epilepticus seizure.  They attributed this to his immune response to the shots, but a few days following, I noticed that a molar had popped through.  From here, our lives have been a nightmare.  6 weeks later, another episode of status - not sick, no shots, but two more molars were coming through.  Then just four weeks after that, another episode of status.  This time he was found to have pnuemonia, but two more teeth came through the same week as well.

Do any other parents of infants and toddlers who have seizures experience break-throughs when teething?  Maybe I am reading too much into it, but I think it is awfully coincedental that he can be totally controlled until boom, a big one sneaks through.

Comments

While I don't know about kids

Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2015-04-13 - 20:22
While I don't know about kids and teething and issues that can come from them. I am the one that had to deal with seizures while changing from a kid to a teen, If I got a little sick I had more seizures, If I got a cold they were just as bad. A sickness can braing down the threshold of a medication so if the theraputic threshole is low then he gest a fevor or any ailment he can be likely to have a seizure.  When I was working I knew that when aliments hit me they moved fast, If I coughed 2 times I needed to get a perscription sent in that day so I could be taking it that night.If I didn't I would wind up with pneumonia.So when he is teething he will generally have a slight fevor and that may be the reason for his seizures. You might want to discuss this with his neurologist because all it might take to stop some of them is an increase in his dosage. Joe

Hello, my daughter had her

Submitted by Jose L. on Sat, 2018-02-24 - 22:32
Hello, my daughter had her first episode at 12 months after a fever but doctors again say they are not normal seizures and they still cant fugure out but now that she is on keppra she hasnt have one but at the same time she hasnt have a fever. Well before the year she had fevers but no seizures the only difference at 12 months and every episode after that was that teeth were coming out. I had seizures my self after i was 12 moths and so my 2 other brothers and my sister we all took seizure medicine and stop taking it at around the age of 10 year. But most of the episode that we had were when we were toddlers. Now all of ours started with a fever and yes when teething but in my little brothers case he got his two seizures episodes ofter drinking soda coke to be exact when we was a little over a year but my mother put him in a strict diet of no sodas, no caffeine and he grow up with no problems or medicine and now his 16 and drinks soda like crazy but no seizures. Going back in my family my grandma had 10 kids and only one had seizures and yes as a toddler but his kids didnt. My dad and another uncle didnt suffer seizures but as and my cousin did and only as in the big family and all around teething time. Oh and my grandma didn't suffer from seizures but a brother of hers did. I think teething has something to do with this and doctors my think is stupid but what if something so simple can be causing all this problems in are babies.By way my sister had braces at 22 and after they took them off he had a seizure the last seizures before that was when was before 4. Thats onother reason i think there something behind the teeth thing.

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