Febrile Seizures in Children: Symptoms, the Abnormal Features, the Tests Required and the Treatment

A convulsive-disorders deck on febrile seizures: what a simple seizure looks like, from the sudden tightening of the muscles on both sides of the child through the crying, the falling, the vomiting and the tongue biting to the rhythmic jerking and the post-ictal drowsiness. It sets the features that make a seizure abnormal - longer than fifteen minutes, confined to one part of the body, repeated in the same illness or more than one in twenty-four hours - and the cases that need an electroencephalogram, a CT scan or a lumbar puncture, then the immediate treatment: the positioning, the clearing of the mouth, the cool washcloths and lukewarm sponging and what must never be given by mouth.