Can Cetirizine Cause A Seizure

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i have a 15 year old son EXTREMELY healthy! Had a random seizure . The only thing he had take was the generic form of medicine, that walmart filled the perscription. was at er all test NEGATIVE ,no stress nothing is this possible? he sees a Neruologist in 2 days but im having issues sleeping

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I am sooo sorry to hear about your son's seizure- it is the very WORST feeling in the world seeing or knowing your child has had a seizure. I am the mother of 3 boys & a daughter. All 3 of my boys have had a seizure before! My youngest was 9 months old, & it was a febrile seizure, which is quite common in younger children. My older 2 were not sick or feverish at the time, so it was scary and baffling! For one son I was told pretty much that it was a mystery and that sometimes things "just happen". My oldest son though was diagnosed with juvenile temporal-lobe epilepsy. It is a common childhood diagnosis in boys- likely caused by changes in the hormones/body. I do not know about your sons' medication causing his seizure, but I would search the internet to see what you can find. Good luck and I hope it was a one time thing that "just happens"!

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ive been searching the internet ,and its driven me nuts see the specialist on wednesday not fast enough i guess. They did a cat scan at er,and i have a copy but dont know what im looking 4. that medicine is generic 4 Zertec, probably spelled wrong. Its so scary and i wanna follow him everywhere.i have heard the puberty answer before ,but thought that happend 3 years ago . Thanks for ur help

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I did some searching of drug monographs and medical resources and from what I'm finding, seizures have been reported with the newer antihistamines.

The reports for Zyrtec/Cetirizine say seizures were known to occur in approximately 1.4% of the people taking it and there was no other medication or medical condition involved to explain it.

Learn more Cetirizine details here.

1.4% doesn't sound like a high number, until you take into account that there are millions of people taking it, then you realize how many might be affected by such a side effect.

There are even warnings in the monograph that it can up the seizure risk, so people that suffer from epilepsy shouldn't take it, at all.

I'm not a doctor, so I can't tell you definitively that the medication did cause his seizure, I can only give you information.

However, as a mother myself, if something like this had happened when my son was younger and on Zyrtec for allergies, I'd have discontinued it pending further testing and consultations with the specialist, just to be on the safe side.

I understand how horrific it is to have something like that happen to your child.

How is he feeling? Has he been having any other problems or issues?

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I have an 11 yr old with absent seizures, been having them for a year and a half now. Recently had allergy problems so I gave her some zyrtec for about 4 days. She awoke on the 5th day after taking it and had a grand mal seizure. I do think there is a relation with taking zyrtec and it causing seizures since she had never had a grand mal before. And we took her to ER after the grand mal and the doctor said the zyrtec could very well have triggered it.
My oldest child has been on zyrtec for about 12 years, on and off, she has more severe allergies. She has never had any seizures, yet.

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I have to agree with you. I hope more studies are done. My son had taken it for 4 days and had a seizure on the 5th day after being seizure free for over a yr

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