After witnessing a dozen of these upsetting spasm/seizure events and becoming concerned that our son could not get to sleep because each time he tried, he would have another spasm, we tried pinning his arms and legs. My wife held down his legs and I held down his arms. As he tried to fall asleep he would jerk and kick, but because his arms couldn't flail around the spasm would not be significant enough to interrupt his journey to dreamland. He fell into deep sleep and I laid with him for about 3 hours, holding his arms and legs so he could get some much needed sleep. He would do little jerks and kicks occasionally, but he kept on sleeping. By the time he woke up, his fever had started to moderate. A few hours later, he took another nap with us holding him the whole time.
That night, with an almost normal temperature, he got in some much needed sleep and even though he had some minor spasms as he was falling asleep, they were not enough to wake him up.
By about noon the next morning he was covered in reddish/whitish bumps. Probably Roseola. The dr had mentioned this might be it and that only time would heal it. We didn't bring him back to the dr.
His personality is changed. I think it is a combo of the terror of not being able to control the spasms, lack of sleep and he is still a bit weak/sleepy/irritable. The Roseola is still present, but should let up in the next day or two. He did start to play 'peek-a-boo' last night and did some good laughs which was a heartening sign for mom and dad. :) We are keeping our fingers crossed that he has a full recovery. Our hearts go out to the children (and parents) who experience infant seizures of any sort. Just going through these relatively minor episodes was extremely distressing for all of us.
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After witnessing a dozen of these upsetting spasm/seizure events and becoming concerned that our son could not get to sleep because each time he tried, he would have another spasm, we tried pinning his arms and legs. My wife held down his legs and I held down his arms. As he tried to fall asleep he would jerk and kick, but because his arms couldn't flail around the spasm would not be significant enough to interrupt his journey to dreamland. He fell into deep sleep and I laid with him for about 3 hours, holding his arms and legs so he could get some much needed sleep. He would do little jerks and kicks occasionally, but he kept on sleeping. By the time he woke up, his fever had started to moderate. A few hours later, he took another nap with us holding him the whole time.
That night, with an almost normal temperature, he got in some much needed sleep and even though he had some minor spasms as he was falling asleep, they were not enough to wake him up.
By about noon the next morning he was covered in reddish/whitish bumps. Probably Roseola. The dr had mentioned this might be it and that only time would heal it. We didn't bring him back to the dr.
His personality is changed. I think it is a combo of the terror of not being able to control the spasms, lack of sleep and he is still a bit weak/sleepy/irritable. The Roseola is still present, but should let up in the next day or two. He did start to play 'peek-a-boo' last night and did some good laughs which was a heartening sign for mom and dad. :) We are keeping our fingers crossed that he has a full recovery. Our hearts go out to the children (and parents) who experience infant seizures of any sort. Just going through these relatively minor episodes was extremely distressing for all of us.
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