What causes seizures in a seven year old having low appetite and giddiness?
Patient: Hi Doctor, My 7 year old daughter is suffering from seizures since she was 4 yrs old. EEG report has some issues, I can send you the report if you want so that yoou can have a look. As adviced she is under medication. Valparin 200 syrup-10ml-Twice daily Lamosyn 25 tab- 1 tab-Twice daily Cloba 5 tab- 1 tab-Twice daily for couple of months we didnt notice any head drops happening however we have noticed that for the past one week she is again getting head drops. Please advice. Also her apetite has gone down drastically. Yesterday night she was also complaining og giddiness. Doctor: Hi,  If you would like to upload the last EEG report for further review then, please do so at: www.bit.ly/drdariushsaghafi and I will happy to review it in the context of additional questions but it certainly seems that an adjustment to her medications would be helpful in this case.    However, from a distance such as this and without being able to examine your daughter it is not possible to make valid recommendations. She is likely to be followed by a pediatric epileptologist and this is a highly specialized provider who has the best vantage point over your daughter compared to myself or anyone else online.   Has there been consideration to either doing home monitoring with video recording or in-hospital 24/7 monitoring (if frequent enough) since this would be the best way of making on the fly adjustments to her meds which can then, be watched in real time for changes in the brain's electrical rhythms.    Reduced appetite is a clear function of increasing seizure episodes as is the symptom of giddiness which could be a form of gelastic seizure that may be part of her seizure syndrome vs. side effect of medications.  Hope I have answered your query. Let me know if I can assist you further.  Regards, Dr. Dariush Saghafi,  Neurologist