Baby seizures are actually normal and can happen when an abnormal extra burst of electrical activity occurs between neurons, or even brain cells, in a baby’s brain. According to several studies done, these happen for many different reasons. Causes may include brain injury, infection, and also underlying health conditions, such as cerebral palsy.
For parents, an incident like this may be something that they are so worried about because they might not know what to do to save their baby that got seizures. Worry and afraid not, because there is a video that went viral in the TikTok app that teaches parents what to do when baby seizures happen. A TikToker that goes by the name DrChampz posted it.
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This is what you need to do when baby seizures happen:
- Parents should not get panic. Calm yourselves down.
- Look at the time. This is important as parents should know the period of the babies get seizures.
- Make sure the babies’ surroundings are clear from dangerous things.
- Change the babies’ position to be lying on their side. This is to avoid the babies’ saliva or vomit from entering their lungs.
- Look for anything that is not normal happening to the babies and does not force the seizures to stop as it will harm the babies.
- Do not insert any hard things on the baby’s mouth because it will cause wounds or even the babies breaking their own teeth.
- If the baby seizures because of fever, take off the baby’s cloth for better airing and give the babies medication for fever. Then, wipe the babies’ heads with a towel that is soaked with lukewarm water.
- This is actually the early treatment that you can do to the babies.
- Parents still need to bring the babies to the hospital if seizures do not stop after 5 minutes if it is their first time getting seizures or even the seizures happen more than one time in 24 hours period.
Sources: TikTok DrChampz.