What To Do When Young Febrile Seizures?

Recently, my 4-year-old child had a high fever and had convulsions in an emergency room. I heard that if a child has a seizure when he has a high fever, the next time he or she has the fever it is very easy to get back. I would like to ask you, if my child has a febrile convulsion, what should I do to avoid other complications? (Le Thi Tung - Quang Ninh)
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When children have high febrile convulsions, the child shows stiffness, convulsions, body tremors, eyes rolling up, foaming at the mouth, shallow breath, wheezing, teeth grinding, urinary incontinence.
Symptoms usually occur in children from 6 months to 6 years, lasting about 30 seconds to 5 minutes. After the child is fully awake and there is no weakness in the limbs or other abnormal symptoms

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Seizures are recurrent and subsequent seizures may occur when a child has a mild fever. If the child is well managed when convulsing, there is almost no sequelae.
The best way you can do this for your child now is to keep his cool, quickly place the handle of the spoon wrapped in gauze or wrap a thick towel between his teeth to prevent him from biting on the tongue, reducing fever for children as quickly as possible because will shorten seizures (take off clothes, wipe the child's body cool with warm water, apply wet towels on the armpits, groin, neck)
Do not apply wet towels to the chest or place babies lying in puddles because they are prone to colds, pneumonia.



Do not use alcohol or ice to reduce the child's body temperature because cold ice will cause vasoconstriction, cause tremor will increase heat generation, wipe with alcohol in large quantities that can cause poisoning for children due to alcohol seeping through the skin. .
Using analgesic suppositories, put your child on his or her side to avoid side effects from the airway and avoid injury to the child.
In the case of a child with fever above 38 degrees Celsius with one of the signs of child under 3 months of age; children with disorders: delirium, convulsions, difficulty waking up, crying inconsolable; erythema rash on the skin; shortness of breath; stomachache; signs of dehydration, parents need to send their children to the nearest medical facility for timely treatment..

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