After six months and during the first two years, between 3 and 5 per cent of children convulsing amid feverish episode infectious.Fortunately, this incidence decreased to zero between 4 and 5 years old. Men tend to suffer from this disorder much more frequently than girls and in some families seems to have greater sensitivity than in others.
The causes of such attacks, are very diverse, but in the case of simple febrile seizures, it is an infectious process extra skull. In these cases, the abrupt increase in temperature that usually produces a viral infection, disrupts the electrical impulses brain, which makes the child loses consciousness and at the same time, develop involuntary movements class spasmodic: convulsions. After 2 or 3 minutes, gave the episode and almost always coincides with the fall in temperature.
The convulsive episodes, triggered by spikes in temperature very high, higher than forty degrees. The fever with these characteristics often cause viral infections. That is why if the child was taking an antibiotic to solve the latter problem, of course, it was unable to control infection because viruses are not sensitive to that.
Which face a seizure? If the seizure lasts no more than 3 minutes, and then lower the temperature reacts correctly, leaving with dreams post-convulsive proceeds of attrition that leads the episode, saying that this is a typical febrile seizure.
However, when the diagnosis is unclear, are made all the necessary studies to discover the cause of the seizure, as it may be due to meningitis and should perform a lumbar puncture.
As febrile convulsions never leave aftermath, it is not necessary to practice any sophisticated study, the neurologist who will decide whether to place an electroencephalogram after a month of the episode to certify that everything is fine.
Those children who have more than one episode, should receive diazepán under the supervision of a pediatrician only in the first 48 hours of feverish episode started.
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