Anna was born at term, physiological birth, weight 3270g. Report a broken right clavicle due to the position during labor that went into place by itself.
All ok until the early vaccinations, particularly the second where, after a few days began to show something strange: the clones with his eyes and his face grimace.
The pediatrician recommended a visit to the psychiatrist by video EEG.
The track highlights a trend in epileptic brain. We recommend that the patient to understand their causes. The
suspicion focuses on metabolic diseases, but was soon denied.
Trasfrerita from pediatrics to Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza San Giovanni Rotondo in the department of neurology at the Infant Jesus in Rome. Surveys on surveys we come to the conclusion that Anna suffers from a rare form of epilepsy, partial seizures, or suffer from malignant migrant children.
The onset of this form of epilepsy occurs within the first 6 months of life and in literature reports that most children suffering from it do not reach the first year of life.
All in all going well in the sense that the critical situation was quite under control, until Anna had no fever, longer that doctors had discovered that harbored a pneumonia-aspiration. The prolongation of the fever has caused Anna to enter into a status epilepticus and consequently sedarla physicians have led to drug-induced coma from which he was released after 10 days. Meanwhile
already rumored that the aspiration-pneumonia had been caused by poor coordination of swallowing, plus all those drugs made in the intensive care have resulted in many micro-ulcers in the esophagus, had become inevitable, therefore, place a peg .
ANNA is currently in fair condition, meaning that we live with his illness.
The cause of this form of epilepsy is quite unknown and it does not make us calm because you know that there is a way out, we parents would not hesitate to try
Anna has pluriquotidiane crisis, its anti-epileptic therapy is a combination of 4 different drugs (because they are not drug, is refractory) that do not contribute at all to improve his mental and motor retardation.
Anna is 3 years old and does not control his head, unable to sit, not talking, not walking, does not cry because it is too sedated, do not eat by mouth because it has the peg.
But despite all this year and leads a normal life has started to attend the first year of kindergarten. Here it is among his new friends, and among its many attente e premurose maestre.
