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    Fever-induced seizures, also known as febrile seizures, are common in young children between 6 months and 5 years old. They occur when a child has a fever but are otherwise harmless. The seizures are generally brief, lasting less than 5 minutes, and involve shaking or jerking movements. While frightening for parents to witness, the child does not experience pain and recovers quickly. Proper management of fever is important to prevent seizures and involves giving pain relievers, keeping the child cool, and monitoring for other illnesses. Reassurance should be provided to parents that febrile seizures themselves do not cause long-term harm or epilepsy in the vast majority of cases.

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    Fever-induced seizures, also known as febrile seizures, are common in young children between 6 months and 5 years old. They occur when a child has a fever but are otherwise harmless. The seizures are generally brief, lasting less than 5 minutes, and involve shaking or jerking movements. While frightening for parents to witness, the child does not experience pain and recovers quickly. Proper management of fever is important to prevent seizures and involves giving pain relievers, keeping the child cool, and monitoring for other illnesses. Reassurance should be provided to parents that febrile seizures themselves do not cause long-term harm or epilepsy in the vast majority of cases.

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    Counseling Child With Febrile Seizure: Focused History

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    Fever-induced seizures, also known as febrile seizures, are common in young children between 6 months and 5 years old. They occur when a child has a fever but are otherwise harmless. The seizures are generally brief, lasting less than 5 minutes, and involve shaking or jerking movements. While frightening for parents to witness, the child does not experience pain and recovers quickly. Proper management of fever is important to prevent seizures and involves giving pain relievers, keeping the child cool, and monitoring for other illnesses. Reassurance should be provided to parents that febrile seizures themselves do not cause long-term harm or epilepsy in the vast majority of cases.

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    COUNSELING CHILD WITH FEBRILE SEIZURE


    Focused history:-

     Name, age,
     Episode:-type of convulsion, previous episodes, past medical history, drugs, family
    history of epilepsy, trauma! Any fever! URTI, UTI PNEOMONIA

    Your child has a condition called febrile seizure

    What do you know so far about febrile seizure?

    Introduction:-
    I know Mrs. Smith that was a very frightening experience for you. You may even have thought
    that your child was dead or dying. Many parents think that when they first see a febrile
    convulsion. However febrile convulsions are not as serious as they look.
    It is an attack brought on by fever in a child usually aged between 6 months and 4 or 5 years.
    A convulsion is an attack in which the person becomes unconscious and usually stiff, with
    jerking of the arms and legs. It is caused by a storm of electrical activity of the brain. The
    words convulsions, fit and seizure mean the same thing.

    Episode:- The convulsions are usually brief, lasting less than 5 minutes, and causing generalized body
    shaking. It is not as scary as it looks!

    Precipitating factors:- Many deferent illnesses can precipitate but the commonest one viral upper
    respiratory tract infection e.g common cold. This is the way our body responds to the rapid rising of
    body temperature.

    Management;-
    If your child is having fever, you can take the temperature by placing the bulb of the
    Thermometer under his armpit for 3 minutes with his arm held against his side. Keep him cool.
    Don't over clothe him or over heat the room. Give plenty of fluids to drink. Give children's
    paracetamol medicine to get his temperature down. If he seems ill or has earache or sore
    throat, let your doctor see him in case he needs any other treatment such as antibiotics.

    When your child is fitting you should lay him flat on his side, with his head at the same level or
    slightly lower than his body. Note the time and wait for the fit to stop. It is not necessary to do
    anything else. We will give a medicine to insert into your child's bottom. This is called rectal
    diazepam. If the fit carries for more than 5 minutes give rectal diazepam. This should stop the
    fit in 10 minutes, if it doesn't bring him up to the hospital. In any event let your doctor what
    has happened.

    Reassurance:- The child doesn't suffer discomfort or pain during a convulsion. The child is
    unconscious and unaware of what is happening.
    The convulsion is much more disturbing to you than the child.
    Febrile convulsions often run in families, this does not mean your child will have epilepsy; there
    is very small percentage of children can develop epilepsy in the future.

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