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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would caution going too far out of your lane. We've had educators do this and create problems. We were told our child seemed to be having seizures by the school OT and then the principal. We met with a neurologist and took our child in for an EEG. After all the stress that this unleashed, we found out that there was nothing wrong/everything was normal. The OT was still not convinced and tried to get us to have an MRI. Our neurologist refused.[/quote]

EEGs frequently cannot detect epilepsy unless the person is actively having a seizure or had one within a few hours. I'm surprised you didn't want to do the MRI just to rule out some bad possibilities. [/quote]

If you're trying to suggest that an MRI would have shown a tumor or abnormality, that would hardly have resulted in just absence seizures.  [/quote]

That is absolutely 100% not true.  I'm the PP whose friend had a brain tumor and the ONLY symptom when it was diagnosed were absence seizures, and the only way the parents knew was because the school nurse called them.  No she did not "diagnose" their child; she told them that it was a possibility they should check out.  And she saved that child's life.

I think all of you are blinded by experiences you've had with kids with developmental disorders.  I have a child with an ASD so I get it.  But this is a medical problem, and you'd better believe I would want to school nurse to flag it.  No, a school nurse can't "diagnose" strep, but she can say you need to take your child to the doctor to check out the sore throat and swollen lymph nodes.  If nurses aren't going to be on the lookout for health problems, what good are they?  Sure sometimes they go to far and that can be annoying.  I think you can live with that.  I know i wouldn't be able to live with a nurse not telling me she thought my child was having seizures because she didn't think it was her place, and it turned out my child had a brain tumor.

I also have a sibling with epilepsy and had it been diagnosed back when he was having absence seizure, and not when he had a grand mal seizure, he could have avoided some damage.  Grand mal seizures can actually kill.  This is not even a close call.[/quote]

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