Pediatrician Follow-up

We met with Westin's pediatrician today after this weekend's visit to the ER to be diagnosed with epilepsy after two seizures in a row. The first happened around 1:20am and was a grand mal or tonic clonic and lasted a good 5 minutes (not typical of the type of epilepsy he was diagnosed with, most are far less severe). In the ER before being discharged he had another, but not quite as severe. After the EEG our neurologist reported back to the pediatrician that Westin appears to have Benign Childhood Epilepsy with Centrotemporal Spikes (BCECTS), also known as benign rolandic epilepsy. The pediatrician assured us that this was really the best case scenario. According to some papers he printed off for me with more information, is makes up about 10-20% of all childhood epilepsies. The average age of onset is 9 (Westin is 10) and generally go into spontaneous remission before the age of 12 or 13. Most BCECTS is not treated with antiepileptic drugs, which did not sit well with Jason when I passed that info on to him. He (We) feel better right now with him on the antiseizure drugs.

We meet with the pediatric neurologist next Thursday so I will find out more then.