RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Febrile convulsions
JF Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
JO Drug Ther Bull
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd
SP 101
OP 102
DO 10.1136/dtb.3.26.101
VO 3
IS 26
YR 1965
UL http://dtb.bmj.com/content/3/26/101.abstract
AB DIAGNOSIS - There is much confusion about the diagnosis of febrile convulsions It is important to distinguish them from idiopathic epilepsy, because the management and prognosis are different. Febrile convulsions should only be diagnosed on rigid criteria:1The fits occur only in children under five years old, and rarely in the first six months.They occur only as a result of a rise of temperature. If the child was not off colour for a few hours before the fit occurred, the fit was almost certainly not a ‘febrile convulsion’. A febrile fit usually occurs within 12 hours or less of the onset of an infection.The fits do not last more than 5 or 10 minutes.The fits are not focal.