It is recognized that the febrile convulsion is a common problem. The figures of Patrick and Levy, 2 based on well-baby clinic population, and of Thom, 3 based on home sampling, suggest that about ...

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When body temperature rises because of an infection or inflammation, this can cause a febrile seizure or febrile convulsion. It does not mean the person has epilepsy. Febrile seizures can occur at ...

A 68-year-old lady with bilateral lower lid ectropion and punctal stenosis was listed for bilateral lid shortening procedures and punctoplasty under local anaesthesia. She had a 12-year history of ...

What is convulsion? The first thing to say is that convulsion is like a symptom of an ailment just like you have fever, headache and the likes. It’s a symptom that something is going on in the body.

Extract: In a cohort of 18,500 newborn infants, those who had experienced one or more convulsions were studied. Data were available for the unaffected as well as for the affected children. All ...

Febrile convulsion:Help your child through an attack. By Smriti Daniel. Watching your child go through a febrile convulsion can be terrifying and in such a situation parents tend to panic . But in ...

In 1981, Huntington predicted that the next moral convulsion would hit America around the second or third decade of the 21st century—that is, right about now. And, of course, he was correct.

A febrile seizure is a convulsion that can occur when a child has a fever, usually as a result of infection. The seizure often occurs during the first day of a fever, which is defined as a ...

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Convulsions are involuntary movements of the body and can be caused by many medical conditions such as epilepsy, low blood sugar, fever, and head trauma. Anyone who has a convulsion needs to see a ...