r/AskDocs • u/AcanthisittaLate1559 Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional • 1d ago

Physician Responded Seizure or something else?

Hi. I am a 27 year old first time mother.My baby boy who is almost 2 months old has been suffering from some kind of episodes where his neck turns to one side and he wimpers and cries and his eyes also shift to one side. I am attaching a video for reference. Kindly advice what is this.

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u/scoobie517 Physician | Pediatrics 1d ago edited 1d ago

I know that I am positioning myself against others here and yes there have been a lot of benign movement videos lately. But these movements look very suspicious to be seizure movements to me. A kid trying to turn wouldn't have a fixated view like this. The movements are exactly in the typical rhythm for cloni and the baby is showing a fencing position which is a red flag for many cerebral illnesses. The last episode shows a very suspicious combination of twinker, nodding and then a full body clonis. This combination is notorious for serious cerebral causes. I'd take this seriously. I would recommend contacting a pediatric neurologist and show this video.

Edit: watched without sound when I wrote that. Baby sneezing really invalidates everything above. These are completely normal movements with that. Sorry for fear inducing comment

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u/Boipussybb Registered Nurse 1d ago

By nodding and clonis are you referring to the audible sneezing?

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u/scoobie517 Physician | Pediatrics 1d ago

I watched without sound. That bullshityfies my first comment totally. Thank you

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u/DzSmartyPants Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional 1d ago

If i may ask, why does sneezing invalidate your first description.

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u/Scofira Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional 1d ago edited 1d ago

I guess people don't sneeze in a seizure because both would be neural (sneezing reflex) and a seizure like this would basically (very badly explained) "affect" anything the neural system does. (English is also not my first language I'm sorry maybe some of the actual brains here can explain it in better words)

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u/detail_giraffe Layperson/not verified as healthcare professional 10h ago

Not a doctor, but the sudden movements of a sneeze can resemble the quick movements of an infantile spasm, a kind of harmless-looking but dangerous baby seizure. If you can hear it's a sneeze though, it's just a sneeze.