abscence seizure or attention type of turn??

[devientenigma]

My dd is 13 and has ADHD and ODD. Whilst having tea tonight she went into a gaze. After a while we started to say her name and shake her. Eventually she shouted What!! and seemed ok. Her friend added she does this a lot in school.
I know when she was small she got admitted into hospital for a few unkown seizures, but haven't seen anything really since then.
My ds also does this type of thing, however he had an unconclusive EEG due to his behaviour, so was put down as absence seizures.
It's just with her being older should I see the doctor or is it just an attention type thing??

Maybe keep eye on her what about asking school see if they have noticed

next time she does it do something you know she would normally react to - ie we stroke my sons nose - normally he hates it and will push my hand away - during a seizure he won't. You could also try blowing in her face to get a reaction but i don't know how she might react to that. It might be possible they have come back due to hormones kicking in at this age ?

Good luck

Agree that it's about the right age for seizures to turn up or re-emerge, particularly the hereditary sort rather than the "knocked on the head" sort iyswim.

With DD1, we can tell if it's an absence because you can cover her eyes and she doesn't flinch. Same principle as MM was suggesting. If she seems genuinely "absent" ha ha then I'd take it to the GP for further investigation. Though if it's any comfort, absences are a fairly benign sort of seizure and not likely to do much harm, unless she has a lot of them and it's making life harder at school or whatever.

Thanks Guys,
we done the whole poking and proding, calling her name, covering her eyes etc, she didn't move or blink and her eyes were fixed.
It's strange I never thought of this as hereditory however my nanna was a grand mal epileptic and my mam a petit mal.
As for sensory overload she does suffer, though she would either not go in the classroom or leave the room. Her lights need to be dimmed likewise the computer screen, in school also.
I know she can't deal with different conversations going on etc.
Tough when this happened we wern't doing much apart from sitting having our tea, so how could this of happened then?? Apologies if that's a silly question.

DD1 does exactly the same - absences at mealtimes. I think partly because it's the one time you're actually sitting looking at them for long enough to spot it, if she drifted off watching the telly, who would notice? But maybe also because a % of your blood supply goes off to your digestive system, your brain is running a little bit below par when you are eating and just after.