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 ...

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 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 ...

Febrile seizures in young children who receive vaccinations age are much rarer than some might think, occurring in just about three children out of 10,000, according to new research published in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

On an otherwise unordinary night in June 2021, Lindsay Moll heard a strange gurgling sound from her 17-month-old son's bedroom. “I opened the door to hear the gurgling noise even louder. ... I looked ...

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 ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted eight to three for separate shots of MMR and chickenpox, instead of the combined MMRV vaccine. This change helps lower the chance of a ...

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, ...