I was medicated for about 6  years of my life =(

I was 6 weeks old and in a German hospital with severe fever. My parents were very scared and the dr ordered a spinal tap right away. I had been having tremors and convulsions for a couple days at that time. There was fluid and after all was over, they diagnosed me with epilepsy which I have lived with my life now. I had many convulsions in my school days and also through high school. I was medicated for about 18 years of my life. They would come and go and were triggered by illness or stress. I have now been free of the seizures for 12 years and counting

my lil boy has now had two febrile convultions, luke warm bath is what you are sposed to do to get the teprature down slowly if you put them in a cold bath or cold packs on them it will make them fit you have to cool them slow, apparently 3 in 4 kids have these types of fits and they are sposed to grow out of it by 5, my lil boy klay had one at just over 4 months, he had a virus and he was teething, he teeths very badly with rashes high temps diahrea chuck in a virus and bang very scary stuff,  his last one was resently he is cutting his 2 year old molars and has pus on his tonsils, if you ask the hospital they have pamphlets telling you what they are and to put them in luke warm bath and panadol for temp, i have called the ambulance both times because if you drive up to the hospital you have to wait with the ambulance you have medical staff right there and see doc straight away once you get there, the best buy i have ever baught is a ear temp taker, for the past week i have had hardly any sleep checking his temp constantly, it is the sudden spike in temp that causes the fits i checked klay at 1:45am it was 37.0 it was a lil up i then checked it at 2am and it said 38.9 i put him right into a luke warm bath and gave him panadol when i checked again it was 36.5 and good if i hadent of checked it as often as i did he would of had anouther fit it was that close, he is much better now so i feel comfortable in sleeping tonight and not having to check him he had the fit on monday and i have been giving him antibiotics for virus and panadol for temps and he is feeling normal now, yesterday and today he hasn't been hot at all so i feel comfortable in sleeping tonight without being tottaly worried since it happened, being a single parrent has its benifits and has its disadvantages, having a sick child where you cannot take a break has to be a disavantage but the advantages make up for it he is a beautiful strong willed lil man who gives me heaps of cuddles and alot of hair pulling times :)

Thanks for sharing this information.

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Hi,I know how scary fits can be my eldest son had a febrile convulsion when he was 4 and I never knew about them,before this time.We called the ambulance and it was terrible as my son was just looking straight through me as if he did not recognize me and that he did not know what was going on.Out of my four children he was the only one that ever had one and luckily he never did have another one again either.Good luck with the tests and I hope all goes well with your daughter.Great Article.

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