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Does Your Child Have a History of Autism and Seizures?

If your child has a history of autism, then you want to be one of the major symptoms seen in seizures. The first thing you will need to learn if your autistic child experiences seizures is to identify how to meet an emergency. The following conditions on a seizure an emergency:

- If the seizure lasts longer than 5 minutes, or when there are multiple seizures in a row without a full recovery between them.

- Difficulty in breathing that persists. Although itcommon for an autistic child to look as though he or she has briefly stopped breathing during the seizure, breathing should quickly resume.

- If there are any injuries sustained during the seizure.

- Confusion or unconsciousness that persists.

- If it is your child's first seizure.

- If your child has a history of seizures, but there is a significant change in the typical pattern, type, symptoms, or length of the seizure.

The occurrence of autism and seizures together is relatively common. The Journal of Child Neurology published study, "Prospective preliminary analysis of the development of autism and epilepsy in children with infantile spasms (Askalan R, et al), which showed that through puberty, 25 percent of autistic children develop seizures. It is not known why the incidence of seizures increases so dramatically with puberty. The study also showed a connection between babies who experience West Syndrome, which causes infantileCramps, and children who later receive an autism diagnosis.

Autistic children who are at highest risk for seizures were those who also certain neurological disorders, for example, neurofibromatosis, tuberous sclerosis, and untreated phenylketonuria.

Many parents of autistic children who show unusual behavior is often difficult to tell the difference between these behaviors and seizures, or whether their children are, in fact, recognize attacks in general. Nevertheless, someautism include sudden repetitive movements or the movement, and a decreased perception of his or her surroundings. This may be just what looks like a fit, depending on the person.

To tell the difference between these unusual behaviors and seizures, use the following information:

- Attacks occur suddenly, without provocation by a special appearance. On the other hand, unusual behavior usually by frustration, fear, anger, or are marketed asConsequence of a specific event.

- Seizures generally follow a sort of patterns within a person, if the length and intensity from time to time may be different. However, autism is often differ in their movements and mannerisms.

- Seizures are often accompanied with a sensation of cold or fear and are frequently followed by weakness, headache or fatigue. After a seizure, it is unlikely that an autistic child simply an activity is resumed immediately.

- Similar torigid "lost" an autistic child, no attacks are a form of small seizures that are flashing a loss of consciousness caused 10 seconds or less, and some light facial movements or eye connected. Showers may also smacking or in complex partial seizures. These people would not all stimuli from the environment. But an autistic child will display staring manners.

If your child has a history of autism and you believe that he or she can withSeizures, it is important that you tell your doctor or pediatrician immediately to discuss the severity of the attacks and to talk about possible treatments and preventive measures.



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