Hi,
I am just desperate for someone to talk to me about what may be going on with my son.
I have a referral to a neurologist, so I don’t have much but I have sever anxiety and I cannot sleep through the night just knowing something is happening.
My son is 17 months old. He has been a very healthy baby. Up to date with all his vaccines. Since January, every couple of weeks, he suddenly loses the ability to use his right arm. He just hangs there. He can move his fingers but can’t hold anything. He can’t reach and starts to only use one arm to do everything. This lasts for about 30 minutes... and just how it started, without warning, he is able to use his arm again, and asks like a normal child.
This has happened a total of 4 times, during the day, at the daycare. So I have not seen this happen with my own eyes. The daycare described it to me but when I described it to the pediatrician, she said IR didn’t sound like nursemaid’s elbow and that I should try to get it on video. So this Tuesday, 2/18, was the only tome the daycare captured it happening.
They said he would just be playing normally, or eating, and suddenly they would notice he’s not using his right arm. They would try to give him things and he refused to hold it. He would take whatever object he had in his left arm, and put it under his chin to hold it, so he could grab the next object instead of holding it with his right arm.
You can see he is trying to grab it because his fingers are moving in the video, but he can’t even open up to grip it. But he does move some of his fingers.
I am thinking the worse... I’ve never heard or can find anything only that relates to this temporary thing. And he is too little for this to be a behavioral thing.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
I am just desperate for someone to talk to me about what may be going on with my son.
I have a referral to a neurologist, so I don’t have much but I have sever anxiety and I cannot sleep through the night just knowing something is happening.
My son is 17 months old. He has been a very healthy baby. Up to date with all his vaccines. Since January, every couple of weeks, he suddenly loses the ability to use his right arm. He just hangs there. He can move his fingers but can’t hold anything. He can’t reach and starts to only use one arm to do everything. This lasts for about 30 minutes... and just how it started, without warning, he is able to use his arm again, and asks like a normal child.
This has happened a total of 4 times, during the day, at the daycare. So I have not seen this happen with my own eyes. The daycare described it to me but when I described it to the pediatrician, she said IR didn’t sound like nursemaid’s elbow and that I should try to get it on video. So this Tuesday, 2/18, was the only tome the daycare captured it happening.
They said he would just be playing normally, or eating, and suddenly they would notice he’s not using his right arm. They would try to give him things and he refused to hold it. He would take whatever object he had in his left arm, and put it under his chin to hold it, so he could grab the next object instead of holding it with his right arm.
You can see he is trying to grab it because his fingers are moving in the video, but he can’t even open up to grip it. But he does move some of his fingers.
I am thinking the worse... I’ve never heard or can find anything only that relates to this temporary thing. And he is too little for this to be a behavioral thing.
Thoughts? Suggestions?
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