Le Febrile convulsions are seizures in the course of fever in a subject between 6 months old and 5 years old, who has no signs of acute brain affection or concomitant chronic. Symptoms present generalized tonic-like seizures, clonic or tonic-clonic. The duration is only a few minutes and rarely lasts for more than 30 minutes. Usually the child arrives at the hospital when the crisis seizure is over, so no urgent measures are needed to less than one recidivism.
Laboratory tests to be performed are blood glucose, calcemia, and electrolytes. Treatment performed only of seizure recurrence involves Diazepam rectally.
Source: Mediserve‘s Medical Emergencies in Pediatrics.
