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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I hope you can do something more to bring the child's behavior to the parent's attention. I do not mean running to the parent screaming "seizures seizures", but something that can convey to the parents your observations and the strong suggestion to have the child be seen by a neurologist. I am concerned by the fact that you said the parent is poor and with very low education. I wonder if he/she has insurance and the means to take the child to a good doctor. my DH and i are very well educated (my DH in law and medical research), my father was a doctor, but when our DD at age 3 started showing some strange behaviors it took us 8 month to take her to a neurologist (we went to pediatrician, ear doctor, allergy doctor and others), and I confess that it never crossed my mind that her staring and her falling down could be absence seizures and drop seizures. I thought epilepsy was an illness where people start shaking and have foam coming out of their month. I did not know absence seizures even existed. I wish somebosy siggested that before we would not have waited 8 months. the neurologist did an EEG that was normal, but when we did the sleep deprived EEG, that showed very clearly epileptic activity. a generic suggestion to take to child to a doctor, to a poor and uneducated parent who probably does not have time and the means to properly help the child may not do.[/quote]

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