At first we mistook it as her choking something, she habitually she puts something in her mouth. A habit that is hard to discard because this is one of the many manifestations of her autism. So as common first aid for choking I took her in my arms and give her a thrust so she can spit out whatever was cloging her breathing.
Suddenly, her eyes rolled up to the left. I was trying to get her attention but she wasn’t responding. Then she just stiffened her head tilted to the right and her eyes rolled to the left. This is when I started panicking. I didn’t care what I was wearing all I wanted was to take her to the hospital immediately.
This was her first ever worst epileptic attack that I and the family have ever witnessed of my daughter. Since it was the first I didn’t know what to do. I was very scared I’ve never been so scared in my entire life. I felt like I saw my child dying in front of me. Praise be to God it was not like that but an episode of an epileptic attack (a complex partial seizure) causedt by the low medicine level.
My daughter’s neurologist said her Carbamazepine level was low. Blood and toxic text showed she only had 3.1 percent while the accepted level should have been 4 to 15 percent. Although she just had her recent check-up with him, the daughter grows fast and gains more body mass and weight and height than ever. That was the reason her carbamazepine levels went down. It was no longer proportionate to her weight.
She was diagnosed to have epileptic tendencies more than a year ago and as soon as Dr. Jose A. Robles M.D. her neurologist knew about it he gave a prescription of carbamazepine to prevent any seizures.
I was glad that during the attact despite the confusion I had I was able to remember to call my daughter’s developmental pediatrician Dr. Christine Cruz-Conducto M.D. and asked her what to do. I am so thankful for Dra. Conducto, Dr. Robles and Dr. Melvin Flavier M.D. who were there to attend to my daughter when we were taken to the Emergency Room. They even sent their associates to check on us from time to time.
While the Philippine Children’s Hospital (PCH) in Quezon City resident doctors and nurses were failing so much with their attending skills and handling time for patients in the ER, my daughter’s doctors who are all practicing there in private gave her full attention.
I couldn’t thank my sister Olay Rullan for being there when this episode happened. Instead of having a nice vacation and her planned trip to Mt. Makiling she was hostaged by us to help me watch over her at the ER. I feel they were my daugther’s angels.
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may anak din po ako n may epileptic seizure,kc di normal ung pagdeliver nya (naipit cguro)kaya cguro ganun,now she was 4 years old ,everytime n sinusumpong sya ,we observe kung kaya nya, pag di na dinadala n namin sa hospital,sa pgh ng maynila,we live in pasay and they recommend to have a ct scan and some laboratories kaya lang di namin kaya kc ordinary lang akong manggagawa and hoping may tumulong din samin,.we all praying sa mga anak natin n makasurvive cla sa ganyang sakit,.tanxs,.09213556799
nakakaloka talaga pag nagdedelikado mga buhay ng anak natin no.. nung minsan nabukulan ung bunso ko at nagsuka, nakarating kame ng medicla city ng nakapambahay ako, waley na waley ang beauty ko
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@ yami oo I agree let’s pray for our children’s health.
It’s good to hear ur baby is ok now. Ako I just brought my bunso to our doctor for a checkup due fever and cough. For CBC naman siya tom. Hay naku ang hirap talaga kapag may sakit ang mga dyunaks natin. I hope all is well for us.
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@Yami she is doing better now buti maraming angels sa paligid thanks for the concern. Yeah I know I was wearing super skimpy shorts as in kita na singit :p I never wear that stuff except sa beach lol.