Age: 1.3
Sex: M
Vaccine: HIBV, MMR
Symptoms: Somnolence, Tremor
Clinical narrative: Tuesday, 20 July 2004 Well baby visit with Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) and Hib #4 shot  Tuesday, 27 July 2004 He was out of sorts today.  I gave him Advil in the morning to bring down a fever, but mother-in-law didn't think he had a temperature.  Maybe he was just tired.    5:30 pm  Dinner.  He slept in my arms almost the entire time.  After supper we all piled into the car to head home.  As we were about to turn to get onto the Thruway, I turned around and looked at him.  He was crumpled down into a ball twitching uncontrollably in his car seat.  He was also turning blue as he lied there shaking.  I screamed he was having a seizure.  As I reached over and unbuckled him from his car seat, my husband pulled off the side of the road onto some grass.  I opened my car door and ran out of the car with my son in my arms  still twitching.  I used my pinky and swept his mouth to make sure there wasn't anything in his mouth blocking his airway.  His father ran around the back of the car with his cell phone dialing 911.  The operator asked about him and I told my husband that he had Measles, Mumps, and Rubella (MMR) shot 7 days ago.  He is only 15 months old.  As we were getting hysterical, people stopped to help us.  If I had to guess, roughly 15 to 20 people stopped to help.  One woman, a nurse, took my son in her arms and held him facing down.  She tired to calm me down by telling me he is okay.  He is having a seizure and there is nothing we can do but wait it out.  She was facing him down and noticed I was sitting on the grass in the pouring rain.  A man brought over a fleece waterproof blanket and put it over us to keep us dry.  I reached over to close the passenger side door I left open and noticed there was a young woman sitting there talking to the other passenger.  He seemed fine  he wasn't crying or looking worried.  When I looked back at my son, he had stopped twitching.  The seizure was over!  I wanted to hold my baby again.  He didn't look right.  He couldn't focus on my face or even wrap his little fingers around my finger.  I started to panic again.  His eyes would roll toward the back of his head and close.  I kept talking to him trying to keep him awake.  He just wanted to sleep, but I was afraid to let him close eyes.  That is about the time the ambulance arrived.  6:45 pm   In the 15 minutes it took to get to the hospital the EMT took down all the information.  I began thinking the heart medication I took while pregnant with him did this  the EMT said no.  They placed an ice pack on him after finding out he had 103.8 F temperature.  The EMT asked if I know what happened and how long it lasted.  I guessed 2 to 3 minutes, but I didn't even know what time it was now.  She told me 6:45 pm.  7:00 pm  We got to the hospital around 7 pm and the poking and prodding began no history of seizures in the family no unusual birth  - born 15 days early due to lack of placental fluid no cold symptomsThey performed the spinal tap, drew blood, and took a urine sample.  9:00 pm The doctor said he had a febrile seizure due to a high temperature.  He also had a low white blood cell count.  He received 500 mg of Ceftriaxone.