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My daughter is 5 and she's been twitching at night in shoulder to her leg and sometimes when awake what could this be?
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Twitching: There is normal twitching and then twitching that can be seizure activity. Twitching can be gently stopped where as a seizure cannot be manually stopped. Take a video and show your doctor. That will help with the diagnosis. All the best.
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