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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is there a reason why your neurologist wants a sleep-deprived EEG for a child who has never had a witnessed seizure?  It seems totally reasonable for me to give your child a waking EEG with various stimuli (strobe lights, etc.) for seizures, but a sleep-deprived EEG for a child with no known seizures?

Everyone has a seizure threshold. If I take a "normal" person and deprive them of sleep long enough, that person will have a seizure.  Is there a reason your neurologist is looking to, essentially, evoke seizures in your child?  Because once your child has a seizure, he will need to be medicated for epilepsy.  For a lifetime, essentially.

I think you need to think long and hard about whether you want to do a sleep deprived EEG in a child just to satisfy the intellectual curiosity of a neurologist when, if your child does have a seizure, he's going to need medication.  The road to finding the right medication for epilepsy and keeping your child's epilepsy medication in balance is damn hard.

I would not do this.  Ever.  For a child who has no known witnessed seizures?  What in the world?  Maybe we can also do a partial drowning and see if he has a heart attack, and then perhaps we can inject him with measles and see if his immune system is functioning well.

To me, this is the essence of the medical community's "rule out" blindness.  There is absolutely no reason to spend $5,000 to put your child through a test to evoke a seizure which will be painful for him just to satisfy some clinician's curiosity.[/quote]

You don't have to medicate for a single seizure! I am also not sure that a sleep deprived EEG could evoke a seizure. But, I agree that OP could ask more questions or get a second opinion about it. [/quote]

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