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 ...

Background and aim: The strength of evidence-based recommendation on febrile seizures (FS) suggests the opportunity to check the current state of knowledge and behaviour on FS among health care ...

To stratify the risk of future epilepsy, physicians have historically used lumbar puncture, neuroimaging, and electroencephalography in these patients. Four predictors of future epilepsy in children ...

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 ...

One of the scariest things for any parent to see is their child having a seizure. It comes on suddenly and seems to take over the child’s body. Its victims often become unconscious and are thrown into ...

Fever in children is a common problem seen daily in almost any busy office practice. In fact, some studies estimate that up to a third of office visits for children in the United States are the result ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Saint Joseph Medical System is warning parents that febrile seizures can happen when your child has a high-grade fever. WSBT 22 spoke with a family that experienced ...

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 ...

Miller's wife Morgan shared their young son's health scare on Instagram. The wife of Olympic gold medalist skier Bode Miller is opening up about a health scare they faced with their 3-year-old son, ...

Pediatric Medical Tourism: International Patients Seeking Treatment in the United States for Malignancy and Serious Hematologic Disorders. A Review of the St Jude Experience This is a randomized ...

Seizures during sleep may be responsible for some sudden deaths in young children, according to researchers from NYU Langone Health who used home monitoring video donated by families of seven toddlers ...