After Your Child's Outpatient EEG Test

For the EEG test, we use products that don’t cause allergies (hypoallergenic). The products wash out with water, so they should come off easily. If your child has any paste or crayon left on their head, wash their hair with shampoo when you get home.

If your child’s skin is sensitive, irritated or there's a rash where we placed the electrodes, call your child’s doctor. Your child may have had a reaction to the paste or to the metal in the electrode.

Please allow 5 business days for your referring provider to receive the results.

In some cases, you may hear from them sooner. If your child is a patient in the Seattle Children’s Neurology Clinic, and you have not received results in 5 days, please call your nurse for the results at 206-987-2078, option 4.

An EEG test can be scary and uncomfortable for both child and parent. We try our best to ease this for you.

Help us provide the best care by telling us about your child’s EEG visit. We email families with a survey each time your child visits Seattle Children’s. The date of the visit is on the survey. If you receive another survey for a different visit, please fill it out, even if your answers do not change.

Here are more ways you can tell us about your child’s clinic visit or hospital stay:

• Call Patient and Family Relations at 206-987-2550.
• Tell a staff member and ask them to enter your feedback and information.
• Fill out a comment card, which you can find at the hospital or in clinics.
• Go online at seattlechildrens.org/patients-families/family-feedback and fill out the form.