**2. Acute ataxias**

Acutely presenting ataxia is a relatively common presentation to paediatric acute services or child neurologists though the cause of acute ataxia is most often benign, it is important during initial evaluation to recognise or exclude serious causes including brain tumour and central nervous system infections [8]. The most common causes are intoxication and acute cerebellar ataxia (ACA) (**Table 1**).


**Table 1.** *Causes of acute ataxia.*
