Young children often develop seizures during the febrile illness and these are short, generalised tonic clonic convulsions.
The characteristics features of febrile convulsions are
- Affects 2-5% of the population of young children.
- Age range of children is between 6 months to 5 years.
- Often there is a positive family history of febrile convulsion.
- Convulsions are not related to the degree of rise of temperature as they may occur even with moderate fever.
- Seizures may last for less than 5 minutes and this is generalised.
- It is not associaled with interictal EEG abnormalities or any neurologic deficit.
- Management is done by tepid sponge bathing
- Antipyretics
- Diazepam (0.2-0.5 mg/kg. I.V).
- Young age of onset
- Low fever
- Family H/O febrile convulsion
- Short duration of fever before convulsion.
