I just experienced the same thing. Our 14month old son was going through a slight stomach flu - BUT NO FEVER - EVER. His lips turned blue, eyes rolled back and he went limp for about 30 seconds. Called 911, same thing, by the time they got here he was fine. HOwever, two days later we had the same thing happen and he passed out, took him to ER - was happening every 30 to 45 min, 30 sec ea, while he was hooked up to the monitors. We found that right before he would go into them he would start smacking his mouth, like his lips were going numb. Followed by the blue lips and glassy eyes, limp body. The monitors showed that he was still breatheing but his oxygen level was low - would drop to 70 and even went down to 40 at one time (scary). Heart rate was fine. As soon as he went into one we would just move him around a bit and get everything going again. (Talk about scary each time cause you never know if they are going to come back to ya) This happened about 6 or 7 times while we were in the ER. Once at ICU we has a spinal tap, blood work, EEG, MRI -----all check out wonderful. As soon as we checked in after the spinal they put him on seizure medicine which has worked for us so far. He is currently on, after three days, Topamax 15mg. Twice a day. He has never had a cold or temperature his whole life and now all of a sudden this. Maybe a fluke, definitly related to stomach flu. Can't say. He will be on this medicine for at least 6months. He is on medicine because it wasn't just one day we had this experience but as mentioned before he had this happend two days later several times. I hate him taking anything but once you experience seeing your child look as if he was dying you'll do anything to make sure that never happnes again. Hope this helps someone. This is still new to us............
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I just experienced the same thing. Our 14month old son was going through a slight stomach flu - BUT NO FEVER - EVER. His lips turned blue, eyes rolled back and he went limp for about 30 seconds. Called 911, same thing, by the time they got here he was fine. HOwever, two days later we had the same thing happen and he passed out, took him to ER - was happening every 30 to 45 min, 30 sec ea, while he was hooked up to the monitors. We found that right before he would go into them he would start smacking his mouth, like his lips were going numb. Followed by the blue lips and glassy eyes, limp body. The monitors showed that he was still breatheing but his oxygen level was low - would drop to 70 and even went down to 40 at one time (scary). Heart rate was fine. As soon as he went into one we would just move him around a bit and get everything going again. (Talk about scary each time cause you never know if they are going to come back to ya) This happened about 6 or 7 times while we were in the ER. Once at ICU we has a spinal tap, blood work, EEG, MRI -----all check out wonderful. As soon as we checked in after the spinal they put him on seizure medicine which has worked for us so far. He is currently on, after three days, Topamax 15mg. Twice a day. He has never had a cold or temperature his whole life and now all of a sudden this. Maybe a fluke, definitly related to stomach flu. Can't say. He will be on this medicine for at least 6months. He is on medicine because it wasn't just one day we had this experience but as mentioned before he had this happend two days later several times. I hate him taking anything but once you experience seeing your child look as if he was dying you'll do anything to make sure that never happnes again. Hope this helps someone. This is still new to us............
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