PamsPride said:
I did this exact same thing when I was young. We were running late for a boat ride and I was running down the steps and I slipped and hit my back. It was a good couple minutes later that I looked at the girl that was with me and said I feel sick and BAM! I passed out! They took me to the ER because I was with the girl scouts and my mom was not there. My guess is that she has a week vagus nerve and she had a vasovagal response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasovagal_response
When it looks like a seizure that is the syncope part.
I have a mildly weak vagus nerve. My 6 yo DD has a very weak vagus nerve! Sigh! We have been to the ER with her when she was around 12 months old. The ER did not even run any tests on her. Don't even ask me how many times she has passed out!! WAY to many to count!!!
Omigosh, Pam! I'm going to ask her pediatrician about this when we talk, because she's passed out 4 times, and each time her body has either been stressed, or she's been exherting herself.
First time she passed out, she had just got off the bus from school. She wsa 6 yrs old. When she got home, she told me her teacher wrote me a note because she had a rash. She didn't JUST have a rash, she was red from head to toe, was so hot I could barely touch her, and had scratched until she bled. I had stripped her down to see where the rash was while E went to get the thermometer. He wasn't out of the room for 30 seconds when she passed out, hitting her head on our rocking chair as she went down.
We called 911 and while I was on the phone with them, she starts projectile vomiting, still unconcious. They talked me through holding her up so she didn't aspirate her own vomit. We managed to get her dressed, and a few minutes later she came too.
I think E cleaned up the mess while I got ready to go in the ambulance with her. The ambulance that picked us up didn't have a licensed paramedic, so we met another ambulance en-route to the ER. They switched her to that ambulance, and the paramedic kept trying to get an IV in her, but couldn't. They ended up having to put one in her leg at the hospital.
Here she had that rash all day at school. Her teacher had sent her to the nurse 3 times, and each time the nurse sent her back to class and NEVER called me (Maybe because of my ripping the school a new one that's why they call me when they kids have a sideways f@rt now.) So she rode the bus home so itchy she was jittery, and the rash was little head to toe, her body was fire engine red, and she had a fever of 104.
The doctors really felt that she had passed out that time because her little body was under more stress than she could handle. Never did find out what caused the rash and fever, because all her tests came back normal, and they couldn't find allergies to anything (she had just ate Trix cereal that day for the first time). Later it was learned that the school had black mold in the walls from constant flooding.
Second Time she passed out,she was 8 and she was in school and they were coming in from recess after lunch. She told the recess moniter that she didn't feel good. They were standing in line, and she slumped against the moniter and slid to the ground. They called an e-squad and we met them at the hospital. The school then called CPS on us for "malnutrition" and again, I went off on the school because DD told us they didn't let her finish her lunch before making her go out to play. (they have x amount of time to eat and then they
have to go play.) We told the school she could miss playtime, but she MUST be allowed to finish her lunch.
That time they tested her sugar, and it came back normal.
Third time she passed out she was 9 , in 3rd grade, and we were visiting a friend up the road. The kids were running through the house and she caught her hand against the wall, bending her thumb completely backwards. She said, "Mom it hurts so bad I can hardly stand it" so we were going to take her in for x-rays, but she passed out! Called e-squad again...got the x-rays and checked her sugar, blood pressure, etc. Nothing was broken, but the Dr told us he thought her passing out was her way of escaping the pain, because her thumb was sprained.
And then yesterday, being the 4th time she has passed out.
When I was a teenager I passed out from stomach cramps while in my uncle's out house!! My youth leader made me an outhouse to put my cards in when I graduated! LOL!
