What symptom does child febrile convulsion have?

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Febrile convulsion mainly refers to 6 months to 3 years old infants due to acute infection, especially viral upper respiratory tract infection, resulting in increased metabolism of nerve cells, increased oxygen consumption, personal blood flow speed. What symptom does child febrile convulsion have? Let's talk about it

What symptom does child febrile convulsion have?

Convulsions usually occur within 12 hours after fever. Most of them were generalized tonic clonic or clonic seizures, a few were tonic or atonic seizures, and 15% were unilateral or limited seizures. Most of the episodes lasted for a short time, and only one episode occurred in a fever course.

One third of the children had recurrent FC. The time of convulsion was more than 20 minutes (24%), and there was recurrence (about 1 / 4) or limited local seizures within 24 hours. Only 2 or 4% of febrile convulsions turned to epilepsy.

Convulsions are generalized convulsions with loss of consciousness. They last for a few minutes and wake up quickly. There was no central nervous system infection or other brain injury. It may be accompanied by acute infection of respiratory and digestive system.

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At the beginning of fever, when the body temperature is above 38 ℃, diazepam enema should be used urgently. The dosage is 5mg once or 0.5mg/kg every day. The effect of oral administration was not obvious. Long term use of drugs for prevention, no matter whether the usual fever, continued regular oral phenobarbital, 3 ~ 5mg / kg per day. Sodium valproate can also be used, 15-30mg / kg per day.