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Ever Hear of This?
Asked by T.C. from Washington DC
on October 5, 2008
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Hi everyone! I am hoping you can help out my husband's cousin. His 2 year old son for the last 2 weeks has been having these episodes where he will be playing, sitti...
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- sounds like a light seizure. I would persue it vigorously.
- hi T., my niece had similar episodes and the doctors found she was having mild epileptic seizures. i don't really know the details, but you guys may want to bring it ...
- It almost sounds to me like an epilectic seizure. Unfortunately, my 3 yr. old daughter was diagnosed with epilepsy at age 1. She actually has the full blown seizures, ...
Febrile Sezuires
Asked by K.D. from Boston
on April 25, 2009
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In june last year my son got his Dtap shot and had a sezuire. He was diagnoised with Febrile sezuires. Since then he has had several prolonged sezuires and these "epis...
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- K. I am an occupational therapist who does CranioSacral Therapy. I see a lot of children who have had reactions to vaccines. I would recommend doing some research...
- Oh boy, do I know how scary it can be to watch your baby dissapear into a seizure. My 5 year old has had 5 seizures, starting at 8 months old...classified as 'complex...
- Hi, My son is now 29 yrs old and fine. He had the same. He had the first seizure we actually saw when he was 4 yrs old. i think he had had others, but we just didn...
10 Year Old Son Diagnosed with Epilepsy
Asked by Y.A. from Houston
on February 19, 2007
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I want to know the symptoms your child had (or yourself as a child) before diagnosed with Epilepsy. My son's seizures started when he watched a scary movie over a year...
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- I don't have children with epilepsy, but I work as an EMT and deal with people who do. Your doctor is by far the best source of information, but www.epilepsy.com has ...
- Hi I wanted to tell you Personally was diagnosed with epilepsy when I was 8 yrs old, I was on medication for 8 years, and by the age of 16 I had to pass and EEG after ...
- Hi my daughter was diagnosed with Epilepsy when she was also 10. She is now almost 15 and is still dealing with them. Some times kids will out grow the seizures and no...
Time to Tame the Tantrums, but How?
Asked by P.H. from Houston
on June 6, 2009
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Hi all you wonderful Mommies. Here's the latest issue at our house.
My 18 mo. old daughter is throwing some terrible tantrums. Everytime she is told no or that she...
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- If you are going to use time out remember 1 minute per age and the minute starts after they stop screaming and geting off their time out spot. My daughter who has a 2...
- Time out was extremely effective at this age for my son. Most of his time outs when he was that young were only 30 to 60 seconds or so. The rule of thumb is a minute...
- Oh my goodness, I remember 18 months!! It was the worst! My son is now 23 months and doing so much better, so there is light ahead:) I had the exact same question a...
Is It Really a Migraine or Could It Be Something Else?
Asked by J.L. from Dallas
on November 12, 2008
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I have suffered from extremely painful headaches accompanied with nausea and vomiting since I was 11 (that's 13 years). They subsided some in my teens and then came ba...
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- It sounds an awful lot like celiac. Celiac is an autoimmune disease caused by an intolerance to wheat gluten. Nausea and vomiting are symptoms and the migraines are to...
- Hi J., we are a family of migraines for generations! It sounds like you do have migraines. I've had migraines since I was probably 7. I get nauseous everytime I get...
- It could be all kinds of things, but you sound so much like my sister that i had to mention what she has just found. She just discovered that she has (and I hope I am ...
Itchy Skin
Asked by K.B. from Chicago
on August 26, 2006
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Hi!
I feel as if I have hit a brick wall and sometimes feel as if I am nuts.
I have been going around and around with our pediatricians regarding my 1 year ol...
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- K., You are NOT making a big deal out of this. Call Dr. Gary Oberg! He is a pediatrician and an allergist. He treats all kinds of problems and does not believe in ...
- We have a great pediatric dermatiologist. Her name is Annette Wagner. She can be reached thru the Children's Memorial main number in the city and has offices in the ...
- I have a two year old son who had one asthma attack and since it ran in the family the dr assummed it was and since he has eczema too that is linked to asthma, he did ...
PLEASE HELP! Anyone Have a Baby with Sleep Apnea?
Asked by F.M. from Kansas City
on November 4, 2008
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Please help us help our baby sleep better until they will finally do something about it. It is a long story, but since the last illness, our 10.5 mo old turned blue tw...
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- My second child was premature she sufferd the same things as an infant, needles to say any time she slept for what I thought was to long I would be wakeing her up. LO...
- It is always shocking to me how some physicians do not listen to what a parent is telling them about their child. I agree w/the oher moms.... go to another Dr.! You a...
- RUN, do not walk to another doctor/hospital ASAP! Your baby could die and the doctors you are seeing do not seem to care. I realize that insurance is not accepted ev...
Need Some Advise on Boys and Lieing
Asked by C.C. from Dallas
on January 28, 2008
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I am wondering what you are doing as punishment if you child lies to you. My 8 year old son has lied to me in the past and we have spanked (not a fan of it), taken aw...
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- Hi. I have a 13 yr old boy that started to lie to me around 10 yrs old. I did the same as you..(took stuff away). Nothing seemed to work. Finally one day a case worker...
- I have two college age children. My rule was, if something happened that I need to know about, I want to hear about it from them. I told them that being honest is abou...
- I am curently going throught the same thing with my 8 year old. In fact I was searching to see if anyone had any suggestions. I will tell you I am an involved parent ...
New Health Issue with 10Yr Old Daughter
Asked by H.D. from Boston
on July 5, 2008
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Hello,
My 10 yr old daughter has an existing heart condition known as Left aortic arch with aberrant right subclavian artery with no symptoms - this was diagnosed as...
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- I'm afraid that I have nothing to offer but words of encouragement. Another responder talked about prayer, and I couldn't agree more. God has a wonderful way of answ...
- Hi H., I am not sure if this is the same, has a condition called nuerocardiogenic syncope which is basically a vasal vagal response. When he is passed out, it does a...
- I work in Cardiology and the best advice I have to give you is to ask all of these questions to your doctors, and don't be afraid of asking too many. It is their job ...
5 Y/o Scared from a TV Show, He Wont Go to Bed, Just Cries and Cries
Asked by A.B. from Chicago
on April 22, 2008
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My oldest is five and we watch mostly Disney Channel shows, usually just Playhouse Disney, but occasionally Lilo & Stitch because it's on right before and after those ...
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- hi A., Your poor little guy, I feel bad for him and for you that he is so scared. My 4 yr old (almost 5) daughter also has gotten really scared from things on t.v....
- Imagination is such a great and not so great thing to have. Perhaps he is scared that little people will get inside of him. It sounds silly but to a 5 year old it's ...
- my daugher used to cry whenever she watched a specific comedy with us. i don't remember what the name was....but we pinpointed that it was the song from the show duri...
