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MRI for almost 2 year old
Mon, 09/15/2014 - 15:08Hi Everyone,
I'm new here.
My almost two year old either had her 2nd seizure or 2nd pallid breath holding spell last night, and was in tears last night because I know that means calling the pedi neurologist in today that we saw the first time and probably putting her out for a MRI. The first time they did a EEG and it was normal. She wouldn't go to sleep and they said sometimes they see more if they fall asleep. The pedi neurologist said wait and see if another one happens and if it does call and will probably do a MRI but she'll need to be put out for this.
This evening my two children and two children I was babysitting were playing outside when I looked at my daughter and she was laying face down on our driveway. Weirdly, I didn't hear or see her fall/lay down. I immediately picked her up, cuddled her, and said her name a few times. She was pale and and had turned blue. She became responsive pretty quickly compared to the first time this happened in the house 1 year ago. She's a breath holder who has blue spells all the time but these specific two episodes look very different than that and either fit a seizure or pallid breath holding spell. She didn't have any toys by her, no other kids were by her so I don't know what would have scared or hurt her for it to be a pallid breath holding spell.
I've considered just waiting to see if it happens a third time to do an MRI. I really hate to have to put my baby out! I even wonder what good a MRI would do if it can't totally rule out seizures or not and if a child has a seizure once a year if they would even treat it. Can anyone offer one scared mama some suggestions. Are there any clinics/hospitals that do MRI's during the night for young children to make sedation not required? I'm not opposed to doing an MRI, but sedating my almost two year old scares me!
Carolyn
I have had several MRI's and
Submitted by just_joe on Mon, 2014-09-15 - 18:23
I have had several MRI's and none of them used a sedative. However a small child might need one I don't know if your child can stay still for about an hour. I know I couldn't especially when I was a kid even today in my older age I can't. MRI's will show anything different or wrong on the brain. I had an MRI done by my curent neurologist wanted to varify the diagnosis and in the MRI they saw scared brain tissue caused by a hemmorage to the brain. The hemmorage was from a blow to the head between 6-8 YOA. The MRI may support the diagnosis but it may not show anything. A sleep deprived EEG might show more. I had had 20-25 different EEG's all come back normal. The last test was another EEG in which I fell asleep. That EEG did show abnormalities (seizure activity). I hope this helps