Hi. Â My husband is familiar with what to do during a seizure and what drugs can be administered during a prolonged seizure (he worked on an ambulance for 6 years) but we are new to the world of diagnosis and seizure cause and treatment. Â We have a 2 year old (adopted) whom we just learned his medical history is including that he had febrile seizures and they put him on anti-seizure meds (in Eastern Europe) for that. Â Then he had a 6 hour surgery and shortly after that had a seizure (in July) and then just recently in the beginning of September he had a 3 minute seizure that knocked him out and then the day before we met him in mid-September they reported that he had a mild seizure (30-60 seconds). Â They think the recent seizures are the result of the drugs to put him under during surgery. Â We don't know yet. Â We haven't seen him or heard further reports of him having seizures - but then they did "up" his dose of anti-seizure meds since then. Â
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Our current plan is to keep him on the med they have him on at the exact dose and time they've given to us - at least until we can have him evaluated by someone once we are home in the states and then if we have the okay I assume we are supposed to SLOWLY decrease his meds, as I'm reading with-drawls from the meds can actually cause seizures as well. Â
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Is anyone familiar with seizures in young children, possibly brought on after surgery (we think the febrile seizures came on as a result of an infection)? Â I'm trying to find out if there is anything we can do to help him heal if the seizures are the effect of the surgery drugs, or just time?
