Baby Seizures??

You should take your child to be seen by your Dr. right away. Seizures can be induced by many reasons some very serious health conditions. It is a red flag for those conditions, my son had seizures up to one year of age and it was found through an mri that it was a serious condition. Please don't take this lightly and take your child in asap.

Our baby had 3 seizures all due to a spike in tempeture, they call them Febirle Seizures and apprently they are common. Look them up and it will give you more info on them. I would definitly tell your doctor about this. They are extremely scary for the parents to watch..

Does he have a fever? Also seizure are defined as lasting quite a long time - like a minute or longer - something like that. When my daughter was 11 we were out at a corn maze wtih a bunch of friends when she came up to me, said she didn't feel good, put her arms around my neck and fell backwards like a ton of bricks. While on the ground she seems to have a seizure. When we saw a neurologist he asked how long did the tremors last? I counted off in my head about 8 - 12 seconds - which seemed like an eternity at the time. That's when the neurologist told me it wasn't a seizure - but jsut some involuntary movements made when a prson passes out.

To date we haven't figure out why she passed out that day - low blood pressure? low blood suger? We went to the ER and had a complete work-up - nothing. It's been 4 years and there have not been any events like that since.

The fact that you got it on video is excellent - show your doctor. It could be that he'd going through some development stage and he's experimenting with how things look, feel, sound when he moves his head this way, or that way, etc. Or he could be dealing with low blood sugar if it only happens when he's waiting for his meal. We moms let our imaginations go crazy and we project all these worse case scenarios.... Don't do it!

Does he have a fever? My friends daughter had seizures every single time she had a fever... they were apparently harmless, but scary nontheless.

Get to the doctor and get a thorough neurological evaluation very soon. It's one thing if the seizure is associated with a high fever, but if there is real seizure activity it is important to get that identified and begin to understand and treat it sooner rather than later. Seizures can cause permanent brain damage and can be a serious issue.

You might want to contact Parents Helping Parents ###-###-#### www.php.com and they can provide you information, advice, support, resources that should help guide you as you move forward.
Best of luck to you
J.

My now 3 year old had seizures when he was about 4 months old. He would just be laying there and then all of a sudden jerk his legs and arms out and his head back. He would stick in that position for about a minute. The doctors ran all sorts of tests on him EEG, EKG, Catscan, etc. Everything came back within the normal range. Since our son was developing on track, the neurologists gave him the diagnosis of "infantile seizures" and told us that he would grow out of them. She was right. He stopped having seizures at around 1 year old and has been healthy ever since. He does go back to the neurologist once a year now just to keep checking on his development.
Please see a neurologist so that your son can get any help needed and your mind can be put at ease.