EEG for Kiefer

Last Saturday, Aug 4, 2012, my son Kiefer underwent a medical procedure called EEG.  This is one of the tests that needs to be done on him after he was diagnosed with Global Developmental Delay (GDD).

We have him scheduled for a sedated EEG at the Asian Hospital in Alabang.  One requirement of the procedure is to deprive Kiefer of sleep the night before the procedure.  He is scheduled at 1030 am.  So the plan was for him to be awake already at 3am and then sleep at the time of the procedure.

Unfortunately, we were not able to do that and he woke up at 530am.  So we have to rely on a medicine induced sedation.  We got a prescription from Kiefer's pedia on what medicine to drink to induce sedation.
Anyway, we also called Asian Hospital and they said that if ever we are not able to complete the EEG test, we can just go back to complete it without additional cost.

So we still went to Alabang and hoped that the medicine (Benadryl, 2.5 to 5 mL) would be enough to induce him to sleep well to complete the EEG procedure.  We let him drink the medicine at around 10am.  When we were in the room, he was still so active but finally, at 11am, he fell asleep.  The technician started connecting a lot of wires/probes in his head and then started the EEG itself at around 11:18am

For about 45 min of the procedure, Kiefer was sound asleep.  But readings must also be taken with Kiefer awake.  Readings were also taken with the following scenarios:
1.  The technician flashed a light in his face for different frequencies
2.  A loud clapping on the background
3.  Kiefer was also pinched on the finger
4.  Television running in the background

He still kept on trying to go to sleep but since we keep on disturbing him, he finally cried that he started to stand up and wanted to go to me.  He also removed some of the wires in his head.  Fortunately, the technician said they have enough data and we do not have to repeat the process again

The results would be read by a neurologist and we should get it in 2-3 days.
We will be going back again on Saturday, Aug 11, to do the BAER which should also be done while Kiefer is asleep.