Ok, I know its fiction, but I was watching a tv show this morning and there was a baby who was having what they thought was seizures. It just so happened that the baby really had a vitamin D deficiency and it caused episodes that looked like seizures.
So, I ran to the internet, which I know again is not a reliable source of information for medical issues, but I found the following article and all kinds of things started clicking.
Three things came to mind:
1. I was told by an endocronologist while I was pregnant that I had a severe vitamin d deficiency
2. She is exclusively breast fed which means she is prone to a lower level of vitamin d
3. She is currently on seizure medication which can lower ones vitamin d level
I also read this article.
We have already started taking steps to identify if Vitamin D deficiency is a possibly diagnosis as to what is happening with her now.
We went to the pediatrician this morning and had blood drawn on me and her to test our levels on calcium, vitamin d, phosphorous and magnesium. We should have those results in a day or two.
So stay tuned...
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