A Rare and Unique Case Report of Two-Year- Old Suffering From West Syndrome

Infantile spasms or West syndrome, may be a serious and severe sort of neurological disease that generally affect infants who are younger than 2 years. West syndrome, or infantile spasms syndrome may be an oft ruinous infantile epileptic neurological disease with a range of aetiologies. We are reporting a 10 months old male child who is a known case of seizure disorder for 6 months and came with the chief complaints of spam of upper and lower limb, 2-3 episodes per day, which last for 3-4 min for 5 months. The history included that the baby did not cry immediately after birth and was shifted to Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and was on ventilator support for 15 days and then discharged. Later at 4 months of age baby started developing convulsions, electroencephalogram (EEG) was done which suggested of epileptic encephalopathy along with hypsarrhythmia. Post EEG baby developed respiratory distress for which he was shifted to Paediatrics intensive care unit (PICU), kept on nil by mouth (NBM) and on oxygen support by nasal prongs, treatment started. Patient was hemodynamically stable and hence being discharged.