Strange thing happened to toddler face drooped. Seizure?

[worriedcantsleep]

I'm going out of my mind with concern
My 20 month year old dd was drinking her cup of juice this afternoon and had just done a poo so was about to go over to her to pick her up to change her.
I looked over at her and her head was tipped back slightly and the left side of her face had drooped. Her mouth was hanging open on that side, she looked like a drunk person I callout to her and she is now looking in my direction but one of her eyes is unfocused and looking outwards.
I grabbed hold of her and picked her up and she looked like she was losing consciousness. I called shouted her name in her face then my partner came over and did the same and dd appeared to 'come back to the room' as such and started crying.
I would say this whole thing lasted no more than 20! Seconds.

We took her to the changing mat to get her sorted and read to her from her favourite animal book whilst this happened to see if she would interact with me as normal and she did.

What could this have been? After she went to bed I started to google and all that kept coming up was seizures and brain tumours. I'm beside myself and can't sleep . I'm terrified this could be cancer and we will loose her and we love her so much and waited 5 years for her.

Anyone have any experience of this.
A bit of further info
She banged her forehead badly on Saturday afternoon whilst playing. She cried and there is a big bruise.
She appears to be teething her first mollars at the moment and she has been dribbling excessively for a couple of weeks now but she has NOT got a fever/temperature with it.

Op won't be back now to say how her little girl is. Surely it's better to stop judging someone and find out about the little girl. I wouldn't be back if I was her to. Poor things.

@AirBubbleMe there is absolutely nothing venomous in stating that if someone does not know what to do in a medical emergency they should not have a child. Have you really never seen the news reports on children that have died due to parents that simply don’t seem to comprehend their sick child needs medical attention, or the ones just don’t care? Not been that long since the teenager that died from her mother’s refusal to get medical care was in the news. I don’t give a flying fig about the OP’s feelings, not when she left an infant without medical care for hours while thinking her baby was having a seizure. I give every shit in the world that that poor baby has been deprived of medical care through negligence though.

[quote ChancesWhatChances]@AirBubbleMe there is absolutely nothing venomous in stating that if someone does not know what to do in a medical emergency they should not have a child. Have you really never seen the news reports on children that have died due to parents that simply don’t seem to comprehend their sick child needs medical attention, or the ones just don’t care? Not been that long since the teenager that died from her mother’s refusal to get medical care was in the news. I don’t give a flying fig about the OP’s feelings, not when she left an infant without medical care for hours while thinking her baby was having a seizure. I give every shit in the world that that poor baby has been deprived of medical care through negligence though.[/quote]
Give over. You're so puffed up with self righteousness you might pop.

I grabbed hold of her and picked her up and she looked like she was losing consciousness.

I would have called an ambulance straight away. I’m quite surprised 111 don’t seem too concerned. I suppose it’s because she’s ok now.
I hope everything is ok.

@Dailyhandtowelwash

I'm really pleased to see another poisonous post deleted.

I did want to say though that many, many people don't know what a seizure looks like. They manifest sometimes in very subtle ways, and if you have no experience of them, and even if you do, you could easily miss them. I have two friends, both experienced and capable mothers, who only realised their babies were having seizures by describing them online on parenting forums as troubling things they weren't sure they should report to their GPs. Both ended up in A&E in short order. Neither of them were told by any medical professionals that they were failures as parents.

We don't have any idea whether this even was a seizure or something entirely innocuous.

I agree - very few people know what seizures look like beyond a tonic-clonic seizure.

I saw a video on TikTok a while ago which someone had posted of their child staring into space halfway through her lunch. They had made a comment about how cute it was that the baby had got distracted by a daydream but it was very clear to anyone with any experience that it looked an awful lot like an absence seizure. There were many comments to this effect and I hope the parent sought medical advice as a result.

[quote SooMoony]@HedgeOwl I'm liking the random cloud reference in your post.[/quote]
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Pretty good autocorrect!

I agree - very few people know what seizures look like beyond a tonic-clonic seizure.

I saw a video on TikTok a while ago which someone had posted of their child staring into space halfway through her lunch. They had made a comment about how cute it was that the baby had got distracted by a daydream but it was very clear to anyone with any experience that it looked an awful lot like an absence seizure. There were many comments to this effect and I hope the parent sought medical advice as a result.

I once took my child to A&E because she was having recurrent seizures. She had a rare condition and her A&E notes made it clear that if she arrived, her consultant should be immediately contacted. Any seizure activity needed to be stopped asap. The junior paeds doctor on duty cheerfully told me she knew nothing about the condition beyond what she'd learned in A level biology, but that it was 'only' absence seizures so not to worry. They were actually complex partial seizures, easily diagnosed if you took the time to do so, and I had to plead for eight hours until a neuro registrar was paged in the early hours and medicated her to stop them. Her consultant wasn't paged because he wasn't on call and the original doctor said it wasn't necessary because it was nothing serious.

The next day he was horrified to find what had happened, asked me to make a formal complaint, and a scan revealed permanent brain damage had resulted.

So I am never going to criticise a parent for not recognising something like a seizure the first time they see one, if a doctor was unable to do so accurately.

Hi OP. Just wanted to apologise because I accidentally bookmarked your first post and can’t seem to undo it. I’m rubbish with technology and I didn’t see the bookmark button until I had accidentally pressed it. Sorry again

I hope you and your daughter are both feeling better today

Hey just wanted to say I hope your both doing ok, your not a shit mother don't ever let random strangers on the internet make you think that you are
Sending my love, must have been a traumatic experience for you x

Youre a great mum! You came on here, was advised to call the GP and have done so. It's hard making the right call 're 111 etc x

How’s DD doing OP?
Hope you’re both okay

@Mangopassionfruitpineapple

You dont need to apologise for bookmarking a post. Ifs a bookmark, for you, on your account. It doeant accent anyone else. It's for long threads, so you can bookmark where you've stopped reading and then when you next open the thread, it opens at your bookmark rather than page 1.

I hope everything is ok OP. Face weakness would really panic me but I have reason...

My son had a stroke when he was six and it took three days for him to be correctly diagnosed - even the consultants at my local hospital had no idea. It is rare but does happen. Unlike in adults, it can take a very long time for the symptoms to fully develop (my son was still deteriorating after 36 hours, he went from a headache to being unable to walk or talk) so people miss it all the time. Watch out for any developing weakness on her body on the opposite side to her face droop.