When Kmarion turned 7months old. His eyes started crossing real bad for three days straight. I'm talking totally crossed. But they stopped crossing by the time we went to his neurologist. I guess the brain just have a mind of it's own. But on that visit is when he decided that it was time for another EEG.

For those who are wondering what is an EEG and why?

Electroencephalogram (EEG)

An electroencephalogram (EEG) is a test that measures and records the electrical activity of your brain. Special sensors (electrodes ) are attached to your head and hooked by wires to a computer. The computer records your brain's electrical activity on the screen or on paper as wavy lines. Certain conditions, such as seizures, can be seen by the changes in the normal pattern of the brain's electrical activity.

Why It Is Done

An electroencephalogram (EEG) may be done to:

• Diagnose epilepsy and see what type of seizures are occurring. EEG is the most useful and important test in confirming a diagnosis of epilepsy. 

Definition found at: 

http://www.webmd.com/epilepsy/electroencephalogram-eeg-21508

Imagine of an EEG

This shows an EEG taken from a 5 month old baby girl who had infantile spasms. The EEG shows hypsarrhythmia. It is very high voltage, has spikes which arise from more than one area and has “slow” activity - waves which take some time to go up and down, unlike spikes which jump up and down very quickly.

http://www.medscape.com/content/2003/00/45/85/458594/art-sin458594.fig22.gif  

Needless to say three months after the EEG they determined that there is no estimated date for when his spasms/seizures and when they will completely go away. But at ten months they started a new medicine called Prednisolone. I had to stay at the hospital with him for three days while the nurses taught me how to give this hormone injection. And yes it is a natural steroid that blew him up in two days. He looked like someone else baby.  I had to do research to find out more information about this drug before giving it to my 10 month old baby.

Hormonal treatments with Tetracosactide or Prednisolone

In 1958, some doctors discovered an injection which would often stop the spasms. This injection made the infant produce more natural steroid than is usual. This injection tetracosactide 

View more information at: 

http://www.infantile-spasms.org/infantile_spasms.htm