What to cope with a seizure in a child

It is said that in such cases, we have to open the mouth of the person concerned, but doctors suggest that it is not indispensable, although there is some risk that will bite the tongue. This will then be very annoying and even painful, but poses no danger.

Nor should we hold the child or talk to calm down. It is advisable to ensure that no damage in other parts of the body, and maintain calm. It is important to note if you have fever or if it does piss.

When seizures have stopped, it is consulting with the pediatrician. If you are prolonged or repeated too many times in a row, we need him to the hospital or emergency alert.

Febrile Seizures are the children

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.

Febril Convulsion

1ro Define that it is a Febril convulsion

A convulsion is characterized by sudden muscle spasms or forfeiture of the conscience. Some convulsions are unchained by a feverish state and he/she knows them to him with the name of febril convulsions.

2do - How characteristic he/she has
The febril convulsions have three principal voltage-current characteristics: in general they are brief (they don't last more than 15 minutes), they only happen once during a period of 24 hours and they attack so much the right side as left of the body. The convulsions that don't complete these three approaches are not febril convulsions and they can be an epilepsy sign.

3ro - TO that age is more frequent?
Around each 100 children's 3 or 4 they have at least a febril convulsion between the 6 months and 5 years.

4to - does he/she Leave sequels?
Although in general a febril convulsion doesn't produce damage some to the boy, it can be extremely terrifying for the parents. The boy's body becomes hard, he/she has eyepiece (blank eyes) retroversión and it doesn't respond when they speak to him/her. In other cases, the boy can fall to the floor and to shake the arms and legs abruptly.

5to - When do they show up?
The convulsions, in general, show up during the initial phase of the illness (as colds, gastrointestinal infection, angina, etc.) while the temperature ascends quickly (Here it is where I want to clarify something, generally the boy that is spastic feverish, he/she usually shows up the spastic episode before we realize that he/she has fever. I say this, because the parents get scared a lot when a boy has fever thinking that they can convulsivar...). A boy that has a febril convulsion, in general, doesn't have epilepsy (convulse repetitious), although he has a probability lightly bigger than manifesting that affection that a boy that has not had it.

6to Origin
It is not known why some children have febril convulsions and other not. The children smaller than one year that you/they have had a febril convulsion have around fifty percent of probability of having another. In some cases, the physician recommends medicines to avoid other febril convulsions.

7mo - What to make?
If the boy has a convulsion, be about protecting it so that he doesn't injure. Put to bed him in the bed or in the floor and retract all hard object or filoso of the area. Place it of side or with the head toward a side so that he/she doesn't drown in the case of vomits. Not place anything in the boy's (mainly, don't try to insert him/her the fingers in the mouth, it is a MYTH to believe that it can drown with the tongue) mouth.

If the hard convulsion more than two or three minutes, or if the boy has difficulty to breathe, request to somebody that requests medical urgent help while you stay with the boy. Otherwise, once it has ended the convulsion, call to the physician or take to the boy to the emergency room. The physician can recommend some studios to discard infections or other lawsuits.

It is important that it is about avoiding another convulsion controlling that the boy's temperature doesn't ascend when it is diseased (This is in another episode, remember that the typical febril convulsions don't repeat inside the feverish same box). The physician can recommend the paracetamol (Termofrén) management or ibuprofeno (Ibupirac, Febratic, Actron, etc) for babies and children and bathrooms with tepid water.

Not shelter too much to the boy when it is diseased or he/she has fever. The temperature can still ascend more if it is dressed with different layers of clothes (Another MYTH is to believe that the more he/she perspires, quicker it downloads the fever).