Absence seizures?

[Lil mole]

My 5 month old Dd has been referred for an eeg after having a second absence seizure on Wednesday. Has anyone had one done with a similar age baby? Not sure what to expect. Also anyone know of causes of absence seizures other than epilepsy. I know of plenty of things which cause tonic clinic seizures other than epilepsy but out of my depth with these absence seizures.

A bit of a general question too, my dd is a seemingly well and thriving baby. I keep thinking I must be a paranoid mum as keep finding things 'wrong' with her and I often find myself doubting what I have seen and thinking she must be as well as she seems. Anyone else find themselves thinking like this? She has apnea of infancy, cmpa and soya, gluten and fish allergies (all found through bm as not weaned yet) and severe reflux and now these tests for epilepsy 😰

 

[wantabean2]

My oldest went for an eeg and mri at a similar age. The eeg was fine. I struggled a bit with the mri though as he had to have a general. My son took regular absence seizures and I felt crazy. But he was actually taking them. He had been taking tonic clonic seizures fir the first few weeks after he was born, went to absence seizures and then he had a couple of tonic clonic ones. Everything came back normal Amd he had his last seizure when he was 15 months. He is now 5 and a half. Nothing since. He had been very very poorly at birth though so they think it was just his body trying to recover. They worried about brain damage bit he is absolutely perfect now. Good luck. My advice would be to write all your questions down as you will forget them the minute you arrive and just try and appear calm as.your baby will pick up on you being stressed. Hopefully you will get answers soon. I have found that mothers intuition is very very rarely wrong xxxx