
Bee Sting On Thumb, Having Seizures, Taken Ativan. Should We Take Her To Emergency?

We have also given her an antihistamine about 20 min. ago.
there doesn't seem to be much info available on the internet. Should we take her to emergency?
Thanks for posting your query. I am happy to address your questions, intractable seizures do not successfully respond to antiepileptic drug (AED) therapy, these are considered to have drug-resistant epilepsy (DRE) and referred to as intractable. Here one needs to individualize therapy as there are no rigid set of guidelines that can be applied to determine medical intractability. Just giving sedatives like ativan will not assist, yes, will recommend you to get her examined urgently for evaluation for any localization-related underlying causative factors as well have a magnetic resonance imaging study (MRI) to identify a potential lesion. Will suggest treatment trials with other adjunctive AEDs (like lamotrigine or topiramate) appropriate for her epilepsy syndrome and/or vagus nerve stimulation. Hope I have answered your query. If you have any further questions, I will be happy to help.
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Things have stabilized for her now, so we can close this discussion.
BTW, she's had 2 brain surgeries which have helped reduce her seizures and a botched anesthesia which deprived her of oxygen for 8 minutes (making things worse) when they were going to try the vagus nerve stimulator in between the 2 successful surgeries.

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