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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm poster above who posted that I have child diagnosed with MERLD as well as many medical issues. To answer the above question, yes, my child has done a couple of MRIs, as well as five EEGs

Buried in the long debate about MERLD vs ASD, someone mentioned medicating for an irregular EEG even if no seizures. To the poster who suggested that, did it help with language and cognition? We are currently not medicating for seizures but are considering a trileptal trial...[/quote]

Yes, that's me. my son has benign epilepsy BUT he has delays so we are medicating and it has helped. Apparently it does in like 10%of cases. It's hard for me to separate them out but when he turned 4 we started medicating and he got a normal language test for he first time and since has had cognitive gains. We're your son's MRI results normal? ours were which I guess rules out some stuff so means that medicating is I think more at the discretion of the neuro. What kind of activity was on the eeg? [/quote]

In cases of ESES, the medication is different from the typical anti-seizure regimens because it is intended to supress the epileptiform discharges, not just seizures:  steroids and benzos.  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18555191

Not sure if this is the same or different from the idea of medicating for BECTS.  [/quote]

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