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Isabelle Daza shares 'scariest' experience of son Baltie having a convulsion
Isabelle Daza created an animated short film to share one of her "scariest" experiences yet, when her her son Balthazar had a convulsion.
According to Belle, she's sharing her experience to spread awareness and knowledge about what parents should do, if it were to happen to their child.
Before COVID-19, there was flu going around, and her son Baltie started burning up with fever.
"I wasn't home but my sister Ava rushed to him and did what we remembered when we were young, which was to switch off the air condition and allow him to sweat out the fever," Isabelle narrated.
Apparently, this was a wrong thing to do. Baltie's fever went from 37.9° to 39.6°.
"As my husband was giving him ibuprofen and paracetamol to help lower the fever he started convulsing," she said.
Isabelle was holding Baltie in her arms when the seizure happened. "His body stiffened. His eyes were shut, and it almost looked like they were rolling back. He was biting hard on his teeth. He has no control over his movement. I was freaking out," she described.
They called their doctor and told them to place him under a shower, which woke him up from the seizure. Baltie started crying and the doctor said it was a "good sign."
They continued to lower his body temperature by wrapping him in a towel.
"After we lowered his body temperature, Dr. Nuguid showed up and checked on Baltie. He cleared his lungs and said that he seemed dehydrated," Isabelle narrated in the animated video.
Isabelle admitted that she did forget to make Baltie drink water that day since they had a lot of activities planned. She continued to watch over Baltie and gave him medicine every four hours, as prescribed by their doctor.
The following day, Baltie felt better.
According to Isabelle, "babies less than five years old are prone into going to a seizure because the brain is not mature enough to handle the fever."
She said, this is called "benign febrile convulsion."
"This experience was the scariest I had because I had no control over my son's reactions and his body," she said.
Isabelle advised parents that if the same were to happen to their child, they shouldn't panic. Instead, they should comfort the child and try to bring down the fever with a bath or wet towel. Call the doctor and give the child paracetamol and hydrate the child.
She added that since the event is "consuming" to the child, it's OK to let the baby sleep.
Isabelle previously produced an animated story book in Tagalog and English to make kids understand COVID-19. — Jannielyn Ann Bigtas/LA, GMA News
