Febrile Seizures; 7 Important Steps Toward Children With Febrile Seizures

What is Febrile seizures?

Convulsions from fever or febrile seizure is usually called the toddler's body condition is not able to withstand an attack of fever on high temperatures. rising temperature in children can be over-stimulate the brain, so that brain can't  longer coordinate the requirements of the limbs, including arms and legs. consequently there are seizures, among others, arms and legs.

Febrile seizures are marked with a blue face, arms and legs uncontrollably twitching for some time. Symptoms of  a febrile seizure is only for a few seconds, but the result may arise febrile seizures can be dangerous for toddlers. A direct result of rising in the case of febrile seizures is the mouth and tongue move are uncontrolled. or bitten tongue can be directly reversed so that clog the airways.

Another result is that febrile seizures in children under five years will have a growth delay of brain tissue that would cause the toddler be an idiot or have some level of intelligence below the average.

Here are tips that you can do when a child who has a background of febrile seizures:

1. Provide  febrifuge from doctor's recommendation.
2. Provide thermometer to control the child's body temperature, because a febrile seizure occurs when a child's body temperature over 39 degrees centigrade.
3. Find out the trigger febrile children, so it's  easy to take precautionary action against febrile seizures.
4. If the child has a fever, give first aid as a febrifuge and compress the parts of the body that's flown of large blood vessels such as  through in the armpit and neck. We must remember,  that compress on the forehead just make the child calm, have no stress. It's not to help decrease body temperature of children.
5. when a child has a fever, foot and hand the child should be in a warm condition. the feet and hands often become cold, it can  be an indication of a child stricken with febrile seizures.
6. Give a child with a healthy intake of food and balanced nutrition as the body's defenses from it, so that children do not easily have a fever.and febrile seizures can be avoided.
7. Do not forget to always take the children with febrile seizures to the doctor every 3 months to control the child's health track record.