Our 13 month old son is having very similar symptoms to those experienced by Anonymous on 4/20/2010. He will be breast-feeding or just starting to fall asleep. He then throws is arms/legs out once or repetitively (convulsing as much as 4-5 times in a row in a few seconds). He cannot control the motion. It looks identical to the startle reflex he had as a newborn. When the episode is over, he immediately starts crying. His expression looks like he was in pain. In a minute or two he is pretty much back to normal. However, he will start to fall asleep and then it might reproduce. Usually, his third or fourth attempt to get to sleep will work and then things will be ok.
He has a fever of 102-103. The Dr said he believed the fever was 'reverting' him back to a childhood reflex. We just need to wait for the fever to go down to see if this persists. We have administered Tylenol to reduce the effects of the fever. This startle response does not manifest when the temperature drops. He now is really rejecting tylenol so we are going to do without it and see how he does with his fever.
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Our 13 month old son is having very similar symptoms to those experienced by Anonymous on 4/20/2010. He will be breast-feeding or just starting to fall asleep. He then throws is arms/legs out once or repetitively (convulsing as much as 4-5 times in a row in a few seconds). He cannot control the motion. It looks identical to the startle reflex he had as a newborn. When the episode is over, he immediately starts crying. His expression looks like he was in pain. In a minute or two he is pretty much back to normal. However, he will start to fall asleep and then it might reproduce. Usually, his third or fourth attempt to get to sleep will work and then things will be ok.
He has a fever of 102-103. The Dr said he believed the fever was 'reverting' him back to a childhood reflex. We just need to wait for the fever to go down to see if this persists. We have administered Tylenol to reduce the effects of the fever. This startle response does not manifest when the temperature drops. He now is really rejecting tylenol so we are going to do without it and see how he does with his fever.
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April 2, 2012 - 4:39amThis Comment
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