A systematic review found that intermittent diazepam and continuous phenobarbitone reduce the recurrence of febrile seizures in children, but the drugs have mild-to-moderate adverse effects. Because ...

When a child has a fever, their body can ache, they are restless and they just don't feel well. While a fever is a part of our natural response to infection, the fever itself can lead to complications ...

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

Occur only once per 24-hour period. Events that seem otherwise like febrile seizures but that violate these rules, usually by longer duration or by having multiple recurrences in 24 hours, are ...

When babies develop a fever high enough or abrupt enough to cause a seizure, frightened parents often rush them to the emergency room, where their workup frequently includes a lumbar puncture (spinal ...

Background. Klein and colleagues have previously published data [1] on the frequency of febrile seizures after receipt of the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine. They demonstrated that the ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Although fever-related seizures can prove fatal for some children, such deaths are nonetheless extremely rare, a large study from Denmark shows. The findings, reported in ...

A febrile seizure is one that occurs when a child has a fever. A common question I get from parents when a child is ill is how high is too high for a fever. Most parents worry about fever because of ...

A seizure associated with a fever is called a febrile seizure. Now a new study has found there is no difference in developmental and behavioral outcomes for children who have febrile seizures after ...

Dear Doctor K: My 9-month-old daughter had a seizure last time she had a high fever. The pediatrician said it could happen again. What do I need to know? Dear Reader: The medical term for what your ...

In a recent study published in the Journal of Clinical Medicine, researchers investigated the incidence of febrile seizures (FS) among severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 ...

Dear Dr. Donohue: A week ago, my 2-year-old grandson suffered a febrile seizure, which scared the living daylights out of me and my wife. His eyes rolled back, and he became unconscious. After a ...