Convulsions (step) or febrile seizures, occurs when the body temperature of experiencing a surge. Sure,
when your child has seizures, looks very worrying, but in fact,
seizures are generally not harmful to the child and does not cause
long-term harm, such as brain damage, mental retardation and learning
disorders. Febrile seizures are also not indicative of epilepsy.
Febrile seizures, are classified into two parts, namely:
• Simple febrile seizures, seizures occur only a few seconds to fifteen minutes and only happens once a day.
•
Complex febrile seizures, seizures that occur more than 15 minutes, can
occur several times a day and on only one side of the body only.
When
a febrile seizure, usually the child will lose consciousness and his
body shook, could only on one side of the body or both at once, his eyes
rolled back, vomiting, urinating or large even stop breathing for some
time. After a seizure occurs, the child will look limp and looked like the confusion, let it rest while Moms attention recovery.
The cause of the occurrence of seizuresFebrile seizures can be caused by:
Bacterial infections
Viruses (such as roseola virus, which causes swelling of the lymph nodes dileher)
Impact after your child immunized.
Febrile seizures more frequently on children aged between 6 months to 5 years and heredity.
Handling when the seizure happened to the child:
Put a thick blanket as a pad under his
Loosen his clothing (especially those waist up to the neck)
Remove if any dangerous objects around the child
Tilt the child's body if she vomits
Move the location only if the child is in the location that harm
Moms,
while his body still shaking, do not enter anything into the mouth,
including the drug and do not hold her to stop seizures. To prevent your child is having a seizure, give febrifuge when the fever starts.
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