Help!! My 14 month old son had a fever two days ago. A couple hours into the fever he had this startle like reaction.. His arms shot up and were kind of flailing in front of him. He seemed out of it and his eyes were blinkning and he seemed to stiffen up. It only lasted 4 or 5 seconds and then he would just start BAWLING! This happened every minute or so about 7-8 times in a row... Heart-breaking! As it was happening I could feel his body getting hotter. I undressed him and immediatly started to cool him down with a cool compress. Of course one doctor thinks it was probabley febrile sezures but the 2nd doctor says it doesn't sound really sound like seizures.. Seizures don't tend involve as much movement and not as short and repetative?? After doing some reaserch I am just not sure! You know when your child was a baby and they would startle awake? This is what it looked like but he held the startle position for 4-5 seconds.. from what I'm seeing and hearing seizures look somewhat different. Someone suggested he was reacting to sharp pain.. just the way his eye's were blinking I'm not sure.. I'll take any information please! He is great today, even that night once we got the fever under 100* he was drained but back to his happy self! Does it sound like it could be a seizure? I really am going crazy not knowing what it was! Thanks!!!
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Help!! My 14 month old son had a fever two days ago. A couple hours into the fever he had this startle like reaction.. His arms shot up and were kind of flailing in front of him. He seemed out of it and his eyes were blinkning and he seemed to stiffen up. It only lasted 4 or 5 seconds and then he would just start BAWLING! This happened every minute or so about 7-8 times in a row... Heart-breaking! As it was happening I could feel his body getting hotter. I undressed him and immediatly started to cool him down with a cool compress. Of course one doctor thinks it was probabley febrile sezures but the 2nd doctor says it doesn't sound really sound like seizures.. Seizures don't tend involve as much movement and not as short and repetative?? After doing some reaserch I am just not sure! You know when your child was a baby and they would startle awake? This is what it looked like but he held the startle position for 4-5 seconds.. from what I'm seeing and hearing seizures look somewhat different. Someone suggested he was reacting to sharp pain.. just the way his eye's were blinking I'm not sure.. I'll take any information please! He is great today, even that night once we got the fever under 100* he was drained but back to his happy self! Does it sound like it could be a seizure? I really am going crazy not knowing what it was! Thanks!!!
April 20, 2010 - 11:16pmThis Comment
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