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Seizure  in a premature baby
Respected Doctor, My baby had a seizure for about 30 seconds when he was 1 year and 10 months old, and he had a high fever (103°F) at that time. He was admitted to the hospital, and an EEG was done which came out positive. MRI showed: "Few discrete symmetric T2/FLAIR hyperintensities are seen in bilateral periventricular white matter in peritrigonal region with normally myelinated low T2 signal white matter between these high signal patches and lateral ventricles." He was prescribed Levera syrup (1 ml twice daily). Now it has been 1 year with no seizure recurrence. He is physically active and growing well. My humble question is — can we stop Levera syrup now, or should we continue the medication ( medicine quantity ml ?) ? My child is currently 2 years and 10 months old.
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as mentioned, normal development and growth, those would be febrile seizure - which are benign and non progressive for the future. in simple terms, whenever there will be fever above 101, there will be chance of seizure upto age of 6 years ( in some cases upto 8-9 years ). but not after that. you can taper syp levera very slowly as 0.5 ml and 1 ml twice daily for 1 month then 0.5 ml twice daily then stop. only thing to focus is fever- whenever there will be fever, give prophylaxis of clobazam.
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watch for fever
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consult a neurologist for more detail counselling.
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