What causes pupils to be dilated?

ChristyNCole1

So DS#2 (who is 9 months old) went to bed at his normal 6pm time. Woke up at 7:30 screaming bloody murder for about 30 sec. DH ran in there and said he wasn't moving just laying on his stomach screaming so he picked him up. I got back there right after he picked him up. I brought him in the living room to try and wake him up because I figured it was just a bad dream or something(?). DS#1 use to wake up screaming around this age, I would wake him up and he would be fine and go right back to sleep and be fine. By the time I got in the living room he was trying to scream but couldn't just kind of every other second noise would come out and then he would still be trying to scream and he couldn't. He was stiff and then just started moving his legs and arms really fast and wouldn't respond to anything or wake up. His eyes were half way open and his pupils were HUGE, like you could barely see the blue around them. That's when I got freaked out. It lasted all of 3 min. maybe a little longer. But his pupils have never looked like that. He finally calmed down and then seemed really dazed and confused about where he was. Then after a few more min. he was fine.

I called my sister who works in the ER at our local hospital and asked her about it. She is there now and said that he may have had a seizure and I could bring him in but she didn't think they would really do anything. She said just to keep an eye on him tonight and if it happens again bring him in but he really just needs to be seen by his pedi.

I've talked to his pedi before at his 9 month appt. about something?s he had been doing that seemed strange to me and he mentioned that he could be having seizure. But I really don't think it was a seizure, I could be wrong though. I've googled and can't find anything about if his pupils would of been dilated?

 

 

 

Heidisean

Take him to the ER. Not to scare you but dialated pupils could mean lots of things including brain damage, seizures, etc. That is nothing to mess around with. If he did have a seizure you need to find out why if there is somehting that is wrong.

FriskyPanda

Heidisean:

Take him to the ER. Not to scare you but dialated pupils could mean lots of things including brain damage, seizures, etc. That is nothing to mess around with. If he did have a seizure you need to find out why if there is somehting that is wrong.

Ditto.  

ChristyNCole1

See that's what I was thinking too -but his pupils are fine now, back to normal. So if it was one of those things would they not have stayed dilated?

Heidisean

What you described is not normal...stiffening, being non-responsive, dialated pupils, etc. You really should have him checked out.

oparcm

I would at the very least call the on call pedi or take to urgent care/er.  I hope it is nothing but I'd check it out.