About incidence in siblings

[Stephanie2]

Just to give you an idea of what sudden onset looks like in a small child:

 

When DS5 had sudden onset at the age of 19 months, he LITERALLY had to be carried on my hip for 2 months straight or there would be ###### to pay (he was also very hyper and OBSESSED with stop signs, and he had a facial grimace that my husband thought was him making a funny face at the time). This happened overnight and was EXHAUSTING! I remember telling one of my non-mom friends how AWFUL the terrible two's are, and why would ANYONE want to do this again, and DON'T DO IT!! LOL! Turns out he tested positive for strep 4 months later, he was constantly sick as a baby and toddler but that was the first time they did a strep test.

 

Then DS2 came along. When he was 15 months he had sudden onset tantrums, irritability, wanted to be held alot, sudden sleep issues, and opsoclonus-myoclonus movements of the eyes. I thought he was having seizures and brought him to the neurologist (he also has chiari mal.) who believe it or not suggested that maybe the eye movements were tics and asked if he had strep recently!!! As you can imagine, I almost FELL OVER IN MY CHAIR! I didn't know about the high incidence in siblings... Anyway, over 2 months time it all went away (including eye movements) and there was no problem again until 5 months later when he developed impetigo.