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Febrile seizures are a phenomenon that often occurs during childhood, and although apparently are generating great anxiety in parents, in general it is a benign self-limiting and disappears with age.
Febrile seizures are convulsive episodes associated with fever, affecting nearly 5% of children, and there is some hereditary factor is very common that when children are convulsing febrile seizures in either parent.
A febrile seizure does not indicate that the child suffers from epilepsy, and that this is a benign process that leaves no neurologic sequelae. It is true that children suffering from febrile seizures are at higher risk of developing epilepsy, but the risk is slightly higher compared to any other healthy child.
It has been shown that febrile seizures can cause brain damage or cognitive or neuropsychological abnormalities and mortality risk is zero.
Febrile seizures are manifested in various ways and generally consist of two phases.
1. The first phase that lasts less than fifteen minutes
2. The second phase lasts less than an hour.
The phase of seizure is tonic-clonic type that usually presents in the trunk stiffness and involuntary movements jerky like a jolt. The phase can also be atonic seizure is when the baby loses body tone and is loose. Tonic convulsive phases in which the child becomes rigid. Generally a seizure involves the whole body; you lose consciousness and last a few minutes.
The normal recovery phase makes the child regains consciousness, usually mourn and it shows very listless and tired.
The cause of febrile seizures is based on a special susceptibility in some children from sudden temperature changes causing the fever cause a seizure.
The most frequent recommendations during an episode of febrile seizure include:
* Place the child in a quiet place.
* Do not try to stop the convulsive spasms.
* Place the child on his side in a safe position.
* Note in detail the type of seizure for the subsequent description with your pediatrician.
* Try to reduce the fever, place the child in light clothing and administer a rectal medication for fever.
* Visiting a doctor or nearest hospital.
* Do not administer oral medications to prevent choking.
Eat protein in excess can have serious health problems especially for its association with multiple nutrients from meat and other foods of those who, wrongly, we tend to abuse.
The energy supplied proteins in childhood should involve between 10% and 15% of total calories from the diet. Slightly more than half of them, around 65%, would have to be of animal origin, while the remaining 35% would have to bring the consumption of vegetables.
But the current children’s diets tend to stay away from this general pattern and, usually, children eat more protein foods (dairy and meat in particular) than it would be advisable. Read the rest of this entry »