Febrile seizures can occur in children with various diseases accompanied by fever. Seizures of this type most often affect children under the age of 6 months to 5 years. How to help?
Approximately 5% of all children at least once tolerate this state, about a third possible recurrent episodes in the future. Cramps usually occur early in the disease, in the first day.
Seizures are independent of temperature and has a height can occur both at 37.5 and at 40 ° C.
Despite popular belief, the risk of developing epilepsy in children who have ever had febrile seizures compared with other children who did not have such problems, it is growing very slightly.
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types of seizures
Febrile seizures are divided into simple and complex (or also called typical and atypical).
- simple cramps hit all the muscles of the body, going from a few seconds up to 5 minutes. Usually accompanied by loss of consciousness is not repeated for 24 hours, are suitable for, and generally do not require further examination and specific treatment.
- complex seizures may last longer than 15 minutes, only to hit a certain part of the body to re-occur during the day. Such a state is necessarily in need of supervision, and if necessary - a thorough further examination because it is easily confused with more serious illnesses.
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How to help your child
Maximum calm down - you have to help the child in an adequate condition!
- To prevent injury to attach baby on a firm, flat surface, with which it can not roll away from the dangerous (heavy, sharp, hot, etc.) items.
- Lay the baby on its side so that saliva, mucus, vomit did not get into the respiratory tract.
- Call an ambulance, note the time to tell the doctor how many seizures continued.
The vast majority of febrile seizures last from several seconds to several minutes, and are alone!
What absolutely can not do with cramps
- Shove things in their mouths, to get the language and the like! This greatly increases the risk of injury, and fragments of objects and teeth can get into the respiratory tract!
- should not hold the young patient by force - it does not make sense and can only hurt!
- Prior to the full recovery of consciousness does not give your child any medicine, food, drink!
Important! It proved that the early use of fever-reducing medicine does not prevent febrile seizures. Therefore, these funds should be given to all children of the same principles, regardless of whether they had convulsions when febrile.
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