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Had Few Contractions. Abnormal EEG Report. Prescribed Levera. What Should I Do?
Hello Dr. Keerthi
My daughter is 1 year 5 months old. Last week she had few contractions of the whole body during sleeping. Next day we went to doctor and she did EEG which showed abnormal report. MRI was also done within next day which is Normal.
Our Doctor said there is nothing to worry as we don't prescribe any medicine in first seizure. We had a second opinion from other doctor who said that she had fits and prescribed Levera syrup 1.5 ml morning and evening.
History of my daughter: she cried during birth and born in nine months. Birth weight was also good.
My daughter is 1 year 5 months old. Last week she had few contractions of the whole body during sleeping. Next day we went to doctor and she did EEG which showed abnormal report. MRI was also done within next day which is Normal.
Our Doctor said there is nothing to worry as we don't prescribe any medicine in first seizure. We had a second opinion from other doctor who said that she had fits and prescribed Levera syrup 1.5 ml morning and evening.
History of my daughter: she cried during birth and born in nine months. Birth weight was also good.
Sat, 11 May 2013
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Usually in small children seizures may occur in form of few contraction of arms or body or even minor blinking only. Usually metabolic abnormalities may precipitate such symptoms and mainly hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia. I want you to check her blood reports if investigations were done on the day of seizure. If it was due to hypocalcemia then there is not much need to give medicines. Just correction of metabolic abnormality will help. Secondly if she had fever at that time so the episode might be due to febrile seizures, in such case just precautionary correction of temperature helps. But her EEG also reported abnormality so there is no harm in giving medicine to her. Still you can take opinion of one more doctor with reports.
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Usually in small children seizures may occur in form of few contraction of arms or body or even minor blinking only. Usually metabolic abnormalities may precipitate such symptoms and mainly hypocalcemia, hypoglycemia. I want you to check her blood reports if investigations were done on the day of seizure. If it was due to hypocalcemia then there is not much need to give medicines. Just correction of metabolic abnormality will help. Secondly if she had fever at that time so the episode might be due to febrile seizures, in such case just precautionary correction of temperature helps. But her EEG also reported abnormality so there is no harm in giving medicine to her. Still you can take opinion of one more doctor with reports.
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