Febrile convulsions or febrile seizures are benign, generalised convulsions seen in children aged between six months and five years associated with fever in the absence of intra-cranial infection, metabolic disturbance, or history of afebrile seizures.
The International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) defines a febrile seizure as:
“a seizure occurring in childhood after one month of age associated with a febrile illness not caused by an infection of the central nervous system, without previous neonatal seizures or a previous unprovoked seizure, and not meeting the criteria for other acute symptomatic seizures.” (1)
Febrile seizures occurring in a child older than one month during an episode of fever affect 2-4% of children in Great Britain and the United States and recur in 30%. (5)
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