Seizure as the first presentation of Glucose-6-Phosphate dehydragenase deficiency in a 3-year-old child

ABSTRACT

Seizure is a rare presentation for acute hemolysis due to G6PD deficiency. We report a previously healthy boy who presented initially with seizure and cyanosis and subsequently acute hemolysis, due to glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase defeciency [G6PD] and probably secondary methemoglobinemia, following the ingestion of fave beans