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What To do If Your Child Is Having Febrile Seizure?
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For any parent, witnessing a baby in seizure is a nightmare. Just the sight of it can bring shivers down the spine, so to speak. When this happens at home, parents usually tremble with fear; and they usually tend to forget to do the proper thing during that situation.
It is comforting for mothers and fathers to know that the most common seizure in child years is harmless in nature. That disorder is known as Benign Febrile Seizure (BFS). It happens between 3 months and 5 years of age, associated with a fever but without having evidence of intracranial infection or defined triggering factor.
Ordinarily, a high fever (102º to 104º F) precedes the convulsion. Seizures display a tonic-clonic pattern, oftentimes combined with upward rolling of eyeballs. This normally lasts for 15 to 20 secs and there are no more than 5 to 7 episodes in the child’s life. There commonly is a history of other family members having experienced similar convulsions through childhood.
Because these convulsions arise with elevated fever, they are mainly preventable. If a family history of convulsions is known, parents ought to be extra alert when a baby has fever. Acetaminophen need to be given to hold fever below 101ºF (38.4ºC). If Acetaminophen can not control the fever, sponge the little one with tepid water to help in reducing the fever quickly.
If a seizure has occurred at home, remain calm and follow these important points.
a) Move aside furniture or any sharp item from the baby.
b) Move the child’s body and head gently to his side to prevent aspiration of unswallowed mouth secretions.
c) Do not restrain the baby other than to hold his head turned to the side so that mouth secretions continue to drain. Restraining the baby may end up in injury.
d) Do not attempt to place a stick or padded tongue blade while the baby is in seizure. You may break the tongue blade or loosen his teeth.
e) Ask the onlookers or spectators to move aside from the convulsing baby.
f) Be mindful that the little one may possess some slight cyanosis or bluish discoloration during convulsive phase, but that stage is so quick that administering oxygen is not needed.
g) Right after a seizure, the kid could be in a drowsy state. Do not try to give oral Acetaminophen for the reason that the child might aspirate the medication. Instead, apply tepid sponge bath to the baby to retain the fever low. Alcohol and frigid water is not advisable. Alcohol can be absorbed by the skin or its fumes inhaled in toxic amounts, compounding the child’s problems. Extreme cooling by utilizing cold water, on the other hand, can cause shock to the child’s immature nervous system. If sponging efforts are unsuccessful, you can put a cold wash cloth on the baby’s forehead, axillary, and groin area. After that, transport the kid, lightly clothed to a health treatment facility for immediate intervention.
h) If the baby should pass quickly from one convulsion to another (known as status epilepticus), telephone immediately the emergency medical service number. The kid may need supplemental oxygen and anticonvulsant medicines like Diazepam.
i) After any single convulsion at home, phone your primary care provider and notify him of the incident so arrangement for follow-up can be made. The occurrence of fever by itself even without having seizure still warrants a medical evaluation to determine the source of infection, so medicines could be given if necessary.
Quite a few parents want to be assured that febrile seizures do not lead to brain damage. The kid is almost always entirely well afterward, so that issue is not that serious as it looks.
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