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Thought I'd share this as if you have young kids you may want to be aware of some scary stuff that can happen and is apparently quite common.
On Thursday last week, my 4 year old was walking home from school with Mum. Teachers said he had been tired and lethargic that afternoon - but he'd been fine that morning. Anyway, on the walk home, out of the blue, he went floppy, eyes rolled back in his head and he stopped breathing. He went blue and panic ensued. Long story short, he came around after a minute or so, was taken to A&E by ambulance, and spent the next 4 hours in hospital being checked out. He had a high temperature but was otherwise fine. He was poorly the next day but is now back to normal.
We've been told there is around a 1 in 25 chance of this happening up to the age of 6. There are no harmful after effects (although I think a couple of years have been taken off mine and the wife's life expectancy with the shock/panic).
Worth googling febrile convulsions if you have young ones.
yup nasty business.. keep an eye on temperatures this time of year and even if its cold outside, don't wrap porly kids in hundreds of layers/hats/scarfs!
Didn't any one notice he had a temperature, because that is what causes a lot of them.
Jnr FD has been in to hospital twice with viruses and high temps that were not coming down. Basically all they said was parcetomol and wait for the temp to come down or for him to have a febrile convulsion..
crikey, scary, glad he was OK.
My son has had 3 of these. very scary, one of them was on way home from hospital after being discharged after having the first. I drove back to hospital rather briskly.
Very very conscious of his temperature now. calpol comes out at first sign of high temp. But it us very common and docs never seem unduly concerned. Which doesn't stop our worry.
Glad to hear your son is ok now. We were told that we should time the length of the convulsion and get his peak temperature. Not easy to do when faced with the situation.
Been through this, transpired it was a mild form of epilepsy, brought on as above by temperature. We ended up having a supository type thing we could give her if it happend... but god only knows now what it's called.
Very very scarey the first few times.
midazolam most likely. However this is only really for sustained or concurrent seizures.
nope, Diazapam?
Happened to my daughter when she was around 1 year old, very scary, ambulance called and she spent one night in hospital..
our daughter had a number of these up until about 4-frightened the sh~t out of me-its not nice seeing a loved one having a fit,although when my daughter came round she was fine.best advise is keep an eye on temperature (get a decent digital ear thermometer) and if your child gets warm alternate between calpol and ibruprofen -that way you can give medicine every 2hours approx and help control the temerature and also get them in a cool bath,keep room cool etc.
it didnt have any long term effects,shes 8 now and a real daddies girl,we were told she would grow out of them and she soon did,its just one of those things they dont seem to warn you about,good luck-and remember its more upsetting for you than your child
Our middle lad used to stop breathing if he was over tired or panicked (e.g. fell over and banged knee etc). Was very scary at the time, and because it was not everday, easy to forget in the middle of it. I had a non-breathing, going blue four year old in my arms in Sheffield city centre one day - my father was with me who reminded me to back off as I was about to go for some rescue breaths and chest compressions....
As you say, they grow out of it and doc's don't seem bothered/
Happened to my eldest when he was a year old. Situation not helped by ambulance taking 45 minutes to arrive. All fine though, spent the night on the children's ward in Margate with me in chair beside him
Good to hear of your similar experiences. We're just hoping that it doesn't happen again!
When she was one our daughter did the same in the middle of the night with a high temperature. Wrapped her in in a cold towel and dashed off to the A&E in a mad panic. They were like 'it's fib fit, meh'.
Never happened again although recently I've noticed some mood swings and lack of communication, also dropping things and the inability pick them up especially her bedroom floor.
But that could be normal for early teens.