Breath Holding Spells Management

What you need to know anoxic epileptic seizures.

Breath holding spells management. The spells usually disappear spontaneously by 5 years of age. There may be several episodes a day. An unusual early presentation in a family with a history of breath holding spells.

It is pretty hard to ignore a blue breath holding spell but that is what you have to appearto do. Breath holding spells bhs are commonly seen in childhood. In both types the entire episode lasts approximately 10 to 60 seconds.

However there are no case reports of bhs occurring in adolescents or young adults. Overview breath holding spells described more than 400 years ago are paroxysmal clinical events that occur between the ages of 6 months and 4 to 6 years in which vigorous crying is interrupted by end expiratory apnea followed by cyanosis or pallor loss of consciousness and occasionally by a clonic seizure or myoclonic movements. 10713857 pubmed indexed for medline publication types.

Confident reassurance and frank explanation are the cornerstones of treatment. Overall it can be stressful for parents to see their child having breath holding spells and working with a professional counselor may help to cope with the situation. Since breath holding spells do not have any long term effect parents should be advised to minimize the attention they give to the episodes to keep the child from developing behavioral problems.

Management of reflex anoxic seizures in children successful treatment of pallid breath holding spells with fluoxetine transient loss of consciousness and syncope in children and young people. Although breath holding spells are benign they can be quite distressing to the parents. Breath holding spells may occur at any age especially in young children but they peak between 6 and 24 months.

Breukels ma plötz fb van nieuwenhuizen o van diemen steenvoorde ja neuropediatrics 33 1 41 42 01 feb 2002. About 5 of children experience breath holding spells and about 1 3 have a positive family history. Cyanotic episodes are more com mon seen in whereas pallid and mixed types are seeninabout each.