Pediatrics & Therapeutics
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Department of Pediatrics, University of Limerick, Ireland, Ireland

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• Editorial   
  Management of Paediatric Febrile Seizures
  Author(s): Aaron Martin*
  
  Febrile seizures are the convulsions that occur in children even who don’t have any history of neurological symptoms. Febrile seizures occur in the children aged 6 months to 6 years. When a child gets febrile seizures they lose consciousness. Commonly the most cause of febrile seizure is of fever and it occurs when the temperature rises to 38?C. Febrile seizure symptoms are loss of consciousness, difficulty in breathing, eyes rolling to the back, foaming occurs at mouth, shaking of the arms and legs. Management of febrile seizures is done by long term management like hospitalisation and patient education. Long term management includes continuous prophylaxis and intermittent prophylaxis for the recurrence of attacks... View More»
  DOI: 10.35248/2161-0665.21.11.e377

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