Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:mmm hard to tell. could be a teacher imagining things, especially if you aren't seeing this in any other context. but I would go ahead and have the teacher take detailed notes about it and video if she can, and then see a neurologist. there are non-invasive ways to screen for absence seizures.

? The way they test for all seizures is non invasive, the eeg.

EEGs I consider invasive for a small child especially if they make you do it sleep deprived, although you're right, they don't involve any actual cutting. And depneding on the results they may make you do an MRI too. Absence seizures they can screen for by doing a simple hyperventilation test.