For The Media Departments News and Views Capitol Comments eNewsletter Check out Between Us , our full-color publication for women, appearing quarterly in our EpilepsyUSA magazine. What to Look For When a teenager has seizure symptoms, you can ask about how often they happen, how the youngster feels, and so on. But with a baby or young child you have to depend much more on what you see that child doing. You have to remember that it's quite possible for him or her to do any one or even more than one of the things listed on the previous page and still not be having seizures. All children daydream sometimes.
Babies make all kinds of movements without anything being wrong.
The thing to be alert for is a pattern of behavior, something unusual that happens too often to be just a matter of chance. For example, a child who suddenly flops to the ground without tripping over anything may just have lost his balance. But if it happens frequently, the doctor should be told. If a child gazes into space every once in a while but is alert when you speak to him, there is probably nothing wrong. But if he does it often, make a point of speaking to him while he's looking blank.