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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: RE: RE: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by cmh 05 on Tue, 2011-10-11 - 01:46
I'm sorry for the both of you, I have a soon to be three year old girl, she's everything to me. When the doctors gave her the hep B shot, I was nervous, I expressed my concerns with the nurse as did my husband, they reassured us that nothing would happen...but after they gave my newborn daughter that shot, like not even five minutes after the medical staff left the room my daughter started to seize. Her little body went into convulsions, her pretty blue eyes rolled to the back of her head and her eye lids shuttered. I yelled to my husband to run and get a nurse, and lo and behold, we couldn't find one at the nurses station. So as my husband went on a hunt I tried to stabilize my daughter. I held her in my arms and began crying, cause I felt so helpless. The seizure lasted a couple of minutes. My husband came back, defeated, so we decided to wait until the nurses did their calls...I told the nurse my daughter had a seizure shortly after the vaccine was given to her. She shrugged me off and said it was impossible. My husband had to leave before the nurse came around so he wasn't there to defend me. After every vaccine, my daughter has had a mini-seizure. After her 12 months vaccines, I stopped bringing her in. It was the same thing over and over again, and each time it would get a little bit worse. I would call the CDC and they said it was fine, keep bringing her in for her shots... Before I stopped, she was slow, she was behind on all her milestones, took her over a year and a half to finally start walking, she spoke her couple of words around that time. But today, I don't regret my decision for not going back. She's smart, she can say three-four sentences now and 95% of the words you can understand. She rarely talks gibberish anymore. She can dress herself (all except the shoes she still manages to get those backwards). These past few months she's blossomed. All because my husband's mom Diane has been giving her the right nutrition and stimulus to reverse any damage caused by the vaccines, since Diane also has an autistic son who's been damaged by the vaccines he was given as a child. He's come a long ways since starting the regimen, only about a week after starting he was completely potty trained, when before he was in pull-ups at the age of 6! If my daughter was still getting vaccinations, I can guarantee she'd be autistic by now. After those doctors LIED to me saying "Oh no she'll be fine, lots of kids get vaccines and turn out okay..." Bull crap! Why has autism got up so drastically? Our kids aren't being born with it people, the vaccines are turning them autistic, because the number of vaccines has gone up year by year since the mid 90s. When I was a child I never gotten the pertussis vaccine or the hep B the day after I was born or mandatory flu shots every year. I got chicken pox the old fashion way, not the vaccine they have out now. The ones I got were the MMR, Diptheria, Tetnus, Pneumococcal (Hence why I've never had pneumonia) and most of my hep shots (excluding the one you get the day after your born) That leaves quite a few unaccounted for that you have to get today, doesn't it. Like I said, my daughters got vaccines for chicken pox, MMR, DTaP, Pneumococcal, hepatitis A and B, Hib, Rotavirus, and IPV (inactivated pollovirus which I didn't have to have because they quit doing vaccinations for a while then brought it back in the mid 90s...why? I don't know). You know my daughter at only 12 months has already received more vaccines that I had when I was all said and done with vaccines? Each year they find another way to use our children as guinea pigs to see how they react to this cocktail or to that cocktail...then when something goes wrong..."Oops, I'm sorry that happened, but in that handy little flyer we gave you, it said this might happen..." therefore they're covered and now our children are permanently damaged, and my never experience a full healthy childhood because why? Oh that's right, the doctors who are supposed to help us, right and the FDA who are supposed to not use our kids for their test trails. I'm sorry I am no longer putting that poison in my child's body. It's my duty to protect her, and I feel that by giving her more vaccinations I put my child's life at risk.

Re: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by tomsmum on Sun, 2008-05-11 - 00:06
Hello, my son is now 6 months old.  He began having seizures exactly 2 weeks after his first immunization (about 3 months old) in the exact same description.  He generally has them in either right or left fist/arm and will last anywhere from 10-15 minutes.  When he has a febrile seizure, it begins in his arm and they have graduated into a full body "generalized" seizure lasting 30 minutes.  I've called 911 on 6 occasions for seizures that would not stop on their own.  He was given adivan by the paramedics and we are now equipped at home with adivan and have had to use it on several occasions.  He has a normal EEG, CT, lumbar puncture, chest x-ray and we are waiting a few more months before he does the MRI.  He started on Phenobarb immediately upon meeting with our Neuro, but it did not control the seizures.  They've added clobazam which is in the same family as adivan and it's changed the seizures altogether.  They are shorter (30 sec-2 mins)and they stop on their own.  They are getting shorter every day.  We hope that this is all a good sign and we are on our way to controlling them.  He is meeting all his milestones (rolling over well, stands while holding onto something, answers to his name, almost crawling, makes sounds to get your attention etc.), he nurses well and has been eating solids happily - he's a big 6 month old at just over 20 pounds.  The meds make him drowsy, but I administer them just before he sleeps at night (he sleeps 8 hours straight without nursing) and before naps.  I ensure that he takes several naps throughout the day and I stimulate his development when he is awake.  I did, however, have to stop using the exersaucer because he would go into seizures when he'd use it. I'll wait until he's a bit older to reintro it.  Anyway, I hope that sheds some light on the effects of these meds and I hope it helps make your decision on whether to go with the meds.  For us, we feel that stopping the seizures is the most important thing and the best way, in our opinion, for our child, is to go with the medicine.

Re: 5 Month old having Seizures after immunizations

Submitted by Noahsmommy on Tue, 2008-05-27 - 15:16
I was intrigued when I read your post.  I wondered how your son was doing now and if they have determined if he has epilepsy, or what may be the trigger of his seizures.  Let me fill you in, I have a son who is now 18 months old, who had his first seizure about two weeks after his 6-month shots.  His first one happened when he was jumping around alot in his exersaucer - he stopped and seemed dazed, and we realized his legs and feet were twitching.  I immediately picked him up and we called 911 - by the time they arrived, he was back to himself (it only lasted a couple of minutes).  We took him in to the hospital and they did a CT scan, which came back clear and normal.  We went ahead and met with a neurologist and did an eeg, which also came up clear and normal.  Then, about a month later, he had a more severe seizure shortly after he woke up from a late afternoon nap.  It lasted about 15 minutes (they gave him adivan at the hospital and it stopped shortly after).  The neurologist started him on phenobarb.  We did an MRI and second EEG, both of which came back clear and normal.  We went 9 weeks without any problems, but the doc decided to up his phenobarb level b/c he wasn't in the therapeutic range - he explained that since Noah was a big boy and was growing quickly that we should up the dose.  Well, we saw more short, focal seizures after the med was upped.  Then, the doc upped it again and a third time, and each time we saw more side effects and focal seizures.  We switched to a diff. neurologist at a Children's hospital and added in Keppra in Dec.   We did a 24 hour video eeg about a month ago and it showed epileptic discharges in diff. areas of his brain.  We are currently in the process of weaning him off the phenobarb and sticking with keppra to see how he does.  At this point, the seizures are still not controlled.  We were seeing focal seizures probably two or three times a week, and about every 4 or 5 weeks, we would see one that would start in his arm and work into his leg (on the same side of the body) and face and would last up to 15 or 20 minutes.   We do feel like the med change is helping him and we hope it gets everything controlled.  I am still not convinced that we have figured out - I still feel like we're missing something - could there be a deficiency we haven't caught, etc...  So, I was interested to see if you had figured anything out with your son - I thought maybe your docs have mentioned something to you that ours haven't and I'm always looking for other things or "triggers" we should be looking into.   Thanks!

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