
My Question Is About My 18 Month Old Grandson, XXXXXXX

Thankfully, we averted a tragedy that day. The whole family is very worried about XXXXXXX He is going to see the neurologist on Monday. Is it very likely that a child could stop breathing due to his viral illness? Is this likely to happed again? Also what part could his early baby siezures play in this. He has been cleared of any neurologial issues. Basically we are scared and don't know what to think.
Foreign body in respiratory tract also possible.
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I read your query and here is my advice.
I read all the history of your grandson and I am really sorry for the situation you had to go through.
I think the episode he had on Christmas eve is not much related to seizures nor to viral gastrointestinal infection he just had.
I think he had a viral gastrointestinal infection from which he was getting better.
I believe that collapsing and turning blue on Christmas eve may be related to choking.
Maybe he put a toy in his mouth that went on the trachea or bronchis. Possibly no one saw him doing this and when you were doing CPR to him it moved and he started breathing again.
I think he needs to do a x-ray of lungs firstly them you can consult his neurologist.
I don't think that gastrointestinal infection he had may have lowered the glucose so much on making and if so a blood sample should have been performed.
If it was hypoglycaemia he should have been better only if glucose perfusion or glucagon was performed on him.
So as a conclusion you should first do a x-ray of lungs to him because there is a possibility of aspiration of a foreign body.
If there is no foreign body in his respiratory tract you should visit a neurologist.
Hope I have answered the question.
Let me know if I can assist you further.

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