PEDIATRICS Vol. 91 No. 4 April 1993, pp. 836-838
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Hair-Grooming Syncope Seizures

DONALD W. LEWIS MD1 and L. MATTHEW FRANK MD1

1 Depts of Pediatrics and Neurology, Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA

Pediatricians are commonly consulted to evaluate children following their first, apparently unprovoked, convulsion. Keenly aware of the old adage that "all that shakes isn't epilepsy," we are ever mindful of the common mimickers of epileptic seizures that include breath-holding spells, benign paroxysmal vertigo, hyperventilation syndromes, narcolepsy-cataplexy, night terrors, and syncopal events. We present the clinical features of 15 children referred for evaluation of witnessed convulsions at home with similar histories of seizures precipitated by hair grooming and accompanied by presyncopal symptoms.

METHODS

The records of children referred to our neurology clinics from 1982 to 1992 for evaluation of seizures in temporal relationship to hair grooming were retrospectively reviewed.

Submitted on November 30, 1992
Accepted on January 12, 1993




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