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What Are The Episodes Of Unresponsiveness In A Baby?

my 3 weeks baby suddenly stops responding, what could be the problem? this has happened 2 times now, once in the 2nd week and once in 3rd week. She either doesn t open her eyes nor her body parts. We try to give her little pinches, beat her a little but she doesn t react. This happened for a span of few minutes but by the time we rushed to the hospital she gets normal. Doctors there at hospital checked her thoroughly and didn t found any problem. We did few blood tests and serum calcium tests too which were normal. Kindly help or suggest as soon as possible.
Thu, 18 May 2017
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Hello,

After going through your history, one of the differential diagnoses can be a seizure. In children usually, the seizure does not occur as you see in adults, they present only with uprolling of eyes or cycling movements or lip-smacking which usually parents miss.

When a neonate presents with similar complaints septic workup and electrolyte are done to rule out infection, or electrolyte imbalance which your doctors did. I would suggest neuro-sonogram, and if required an MRI just to rule out CNS causes and based on those reports further detail investigation to rule out Inborn errors of metabolism.


Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.

Regards,
Dr. Shivtej N
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What Are The Episodes Of Unresponsiveness In A Baby?

Hello, After going through your history, one of the differential diagnoses can be a seizure. In children usually, the seizure does not occur as you see in adults, they present only with uprolling of eyes or cycling movements or lip-smacking which usually parents miss. When a neonate presents with similar complaints septic workup and electrolyte are done to rule out infection, or electrolyte imbalance which your doctors did. I would suggest neuro-sonogram, and if required an MRI just to rule out CNS causes and based on those reports further detail investigation to rule out Inborn errors of metabolism. Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further. Regards, Dr. Shivtej N