23:02, 15 апреля 2016

EEG on my toddler tomorrow(Siemens Transducer)

After reading a few things online, I'm half tempted to cancel the testing. But I want to get this done since I know it's best for her.

Do you have any experience with an EEG for your young child? How did they handle it? I can't imagine she'll fall asleep in a patient room with stuff stuck to her head.

We've had lots of EEG, please don't cancel. It is not that bad and could give the neuro's a lot of info about her spells.

If it is not an extended EEG (like a 24hour or longer one) the process is not that bad.

The hard part is sitting still. I printed off pictures for Ana and we called the hat her princess hat to prepare her for it.

They won't sedate her. They will put a hat thing on her head and then squirt jel through the holes to make the electrodes have contact. They will have to use some abrasive jel and scrub a bit to get some of them to read right (that's the part that ticks off Ana)

Once the electrodes are reading right the test takes about 30 minutes. They may use a strobe light for a bit of it and they will try to get her to keep her eyes closed for a few minutes of it as well. At the end of the day if she doesn't want to close her eyes there isn't much you can do about it. Where we go they keep the lights down and sometimes with cuddling and being tired Ana will fall asleep but not always. Once the electrodes are on I don't think they are that bothersome. Ana had a 7 day EEG once and slept through the nights with them on?

I find it helpful to bring stuff along to distract her while they are getting things set up. Ana loves toopey and binoo so I bring a little DVD player with the video? Whatever your daughter is in to.

Hope that helps a little, if you have anymore questions don't hesitate to ask been having EEG since she was 18 mos so we're old hats at it!

Lol at having her "close her eyes." She has a severe receptive language delay, and pretty much has no clue what eyes are or how to close them when instructed. I'm just hoping she falls asleep. They're really attached to their afternoon nap, we have had a crazy busy day today (five kids we know had First Communion today at two different Masses, and then we attended three of those parties afterwards!), and with keeping her up late tonight, she'll be in rare form tomorrow.

Thanks for the info everyone! I'll keep you all posted.

here is photos from my daughters back in Jan. She has classic autism along with other issues and she didnt need to be sedated. They put her in a papoose type blanket and 2 tech girls did what they needed to do and myself I tried keeping her content and then when she was hooked up we went to her room. We made sure we brought all of her favorite things and lots of activities and snackies. She was able to walk around her room and do what she needed to do.

After we got the results we set up for a sedated MRI. My daughter has an abnormal eeg(she has excessive electrical discharges happening at different times)(we too went in for absence seizures) and they did an MRI to find out about the abnormalities but the MRI came back normal. She is seizure prone, meaning she could either have a seizure or not. She is currently being followed by her neurologist closely and we will return in July for another EEG.

OK we're back, and it was but only for a short time. Maggie has pretty much no receptive language understanding, so she can't follow any directions, and she doesn't really look at me when I'm close and doesn't seem to draw comfort from me when I'm there with her, so it didn't go well. The tech had to strap her wrists down and wrap her in the full body velcro papoose : ( She was a screaming sweaty mess. The good thing is that the probes, all 27 of them, stayed on pretty much so no problems with that. Oh, but she did vomit twice from crying so much she can't handle mucous in her mouth, yuck.

Then she had the strobe lights flashed in her face for several minutes well, one of her big sensory triggers is bright lights. She and her twin sister positively shriek in horror when they even so much as see a camera. They hate the flash soooo much, and they immediately squint, cover their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears. When the strobe started flashing in her face and her arms were pinned down, I thought she'd croak! That was probably the worst of it. Then the tech let me take her out of her body wrap and hold her for the rest of the test, about another 25 minutes. She was so grateful to be "free" that she only needed minimal pinning by me to keep her hands off her scalp.

She fell asleep on the way home and is still snoozing as we speak. I have to leave to take a meal to a family where the mom is on the verge of dying from cancer (like, they're all at her hospital bedside right now and the family priest is there and they don't think she's going to make it through the night) so I won't be here when Maggie wakes up, which could be a problem. But dh will have to handle that, and I'll be home as soon as I can.

I'll let you all know of the results when I get them! The tech said hopefully by Friday we'll know the results.

Don't cancel my son has had several eeg's done due to staring spells and they found out he has siezures. They basically hook up wires to the head and then one on the chest not scary at all just time consuming. They usually turn off the lights and wait for the child to fall asleep. Honestly the worst part is trying to get the stuff off and out of their hair. I felt the same way as you but trust me its not that bad. My eeg team usually has an animal backpack for the wires the kids can hold and he loves it. Maybe they will have one

My 2 year old dd is having an EEG tomorrow for some staring episodes. Can anyone tell me what it's going to be like? I was instructed to make sure her hair is washed and she should stay up two hours past her bedtime tonight. Siemens Transducer I've tried googling it, and I came up with some horror stories : ( I don't think they're going to sedate her to my knowledge, and she's pretty sensory, so I'm worried that this is going to scar the poor child. I'm just so used to having them both with me, I think it'll be more strange for me than anyone.
After reading a few things online, I'm half tempted to cancel the testing. But I want to get this done since I know it's best for her.
Do you have any experience with an EEG for your young child? How did they handle it? I can't imagine she'll fall asleep in a patient room with stuff stuck to her head.
We've had lots of EEG, please don't cancel. Toshiba Transducer It is not that bad and could give the neuro's a lot of info about her spells.
If it is not an extended EEG (like a 24hour or longer one) the process is not that bad.
The hard part is sitting still. I printed off pictures for Ana and we called the hat her princess hat to prepare her for it.
They won't sedate her. They will put a hat thing on her head and then squirt jel through the holes to make the electrodes have contact. They will have to use some abrasive jel and scrub a bit to get some of them to read right (that's the part that ticks off Ana)
Once the electrodes are reading right the test takes about 30 minutes. They may use a strobe light for a bit of it and they will try to get her to keep her eyes closed for a few minutes of it as well. At the end of the day if she doesn't want to close her eyes there isn't much you can do about it. Where we go they keep the lights down and sometimes with cuddling and being tired Ana will fall asleep but not always. Once the electrodes are on I don't think they are that bothersome. Ana had a 7 day EEG once and slept through the nights with them on?
I find it helpful to bring stuff along to distract her while they are getting things set up. Ana loves toopey and binoo so I bring a little DVD player with the video? Whatever your daughter is in to.
Hope that helps a little, if you have anymore questions don't hesitate to ask been having EEG since she was 18 mos so we're old hats at it!
Lol at having her "close her eyes." She has a severe receptive language delay, and pretty much has no clue what eyes are or how to close them when instructed. I'm just hoping she falls asleep. They're really attached to their afternoon nap, we have had a crazy busy day today (five kids we know had First Communion today at two different Masses, and then we attended three of those parties afterwards!), and with keeping her up late tonight, she'll be in rare form tomorrow.
Thanks for the info everyone! I'll keep you all posted.
here is photos from my daughters back in Jan. She has classic autism along with other issues and she didnt need to be sedated. They put her in a papoose type blanket and 2 tech girls did what they needed to do and myself I tried keeping her content and then when she was hooked up we went to her room. We made sure we brought all of her favorite things and lots of activities and snackies. She was able to walk around her room and do what she needed to do.
After we got the results we set up for a sedated MRI. My daughter has an abnormal eeg(she has excessive electrical discharges happening at different times)(we too went in for absence seizures) and they did an MRI to find out about the abnormalities but the MRI came back normal. She is seizure prone, meaning she could either have a seizure or not. She is currently being followed by her neurologist closely and we will return in July for another EEG.
OK we're back, and it was but only for a short time. Maggie has pretty much no receptive language understanding, so she can't follow any directions, and she doesn't really look at me when I'm close and doesn't seem to draw comfort from me when I'm there with her, so it didn't go well. The tech had to strap her wrists down and wrap her in the full body velcro papoose : ( She was a screaming sweaty mess. The good thing is that the probes, all 27 of them, stayed on pretty much so no problems with that. Oh, but she did vomit twice from crying so much she can't handle mucous in her mouth, yuck.
Then she had the strobe lights flashed in her face for several minutes well, one of her big sensory triggers is bright lights. She and her twin sister positively shriek in horror when they even so much as see a camera. They hate the flash soooo much, and they immediately squint, cover their eyes and stick their fingers in their ears. When the strobe started flashing in her face and her arms were pinned down, I thought she'd croak! That was probably the worst of it. Then the tech let me take her out of her body wrap and hold her for the rest of the test, about another 25 minutes. She was so grateful to be "free" that she only needed minimal pinning by me to keep her hands off her scalp.
She fell asleep on the way home and is still snoozing as we speak. I have to leave to take a meal to a family where the mom is on the verge of dying from cancer (like, they're all at her hospital bedside right now and the family priest is there and they don't think she's going to make it through the night) so I won't be here when Maggie wakes up, which could be a problem. But dh will have to handle that, and I'll be home as soon as I can.
I'll let you all know of the results when I get them! The tech said hopefully by Friday we'll know the results.
Don't cancel my son has had several eeg's done due to staring spells and they found out he has siezures. They basically hook up wires to the head and then one on the chest not scary at all just time consuming. They usually turn off the lights and wait for the child to fall asleep. Honestly the worst part is trying to get the stuff off and out of their hair. I felt the same way as you but trust me its not that bad. My eeg team usually has an animal backpack for the wires the kids can hold and he loves it. Maybe they will have one

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