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 ...

Children who suffer repeated febrile convulsions have an increased risk of developing epilepsy and psychiatric disorders later in life; this is shown by a comprehensive register-based study from ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers sought to estimate the risk for recurrent febrile seizures and whether there is an association between recurrent febrile seizures and the development of epilepsy, psychiatric disorders, ...

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 ...

A major international study involving researchers from the Danish iPSYCH psychiatry project has identified new genes that increase the risk of febrile convulsions. And in contrast to previous research ...

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 ...

In a study designed to better understand sudden, unexpected deaths in young children, which usually occur during sleep, researchers have identified brief seizures, accompanied by muscle convulsions, ...

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 ...

Young children are particularly susceptible to seizures induced by high fever. Experiments in rats suggest that changes in brain pH might be to blame (pages 817–823). Epilepsy, better defined as ...

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 ...