What's going on when the baby has a fever, convulsions and rolls his eyes?

Nowadays, many people are particularly worried about their children's health. Because we are under great pressure at work and in life, and sometimes we don't take good care of our children, which will make children sick and uncomfortable, especially fever. This is a very common disease, but some children will have convulsions when they have a fever, and we don't know why. Let us understand why babies have convulsions and roll their eyes when they have a fever?

This condition is called febrile convulsion. As the name suggests, it is a convulsion accompanied by high fever, a convulsion caused by high fever. The onset age of febrile convulsions is between 6 months and 6 years old, and febrile convulsions rarely occur in children under 6 months old.

During this special age period between 6 months and 3 years old, the anatomy, physiology, biochemistry and other aspects of the brain are in rapid development, the balance of the excitation and inhibition systems is in an unstable state, and febrile convulsions are prone to occur.

According to statistics, 3% of children have one or more seizures between 6 months and 5 years old. The body temperature during an attack is usually above 39 degrees. Sometimes the child is not noticed by the parents and the high fever is only discovered after they go to the hospital after having a seizure. Febrile convulsions are not necessarily epilepsy. Only 2% to 5% of children are at risk of developing epilepsy in the future. Electroencephalogram (EEG) examination can help confirm the diagnosis. Simple febrile convulsions do not require long-term use of anti-epileptic drugs. Timely cooling can prevent the occurrence of convulsions.

When a child has a high fever convulsion, parents should do the following: stay calm, keep quiet, and avoid giving the child any unnecessary stimulation. Keep the airway open. Lay the child flat with his head tilted to one side. Clean up oral secretions and vomit promptly to prevent them from being inhaled into the trachea and causing suffocation or aspiration pneumonia.

Now we understand why babies have fever, convulsions and rolling eyes. Now that we know what's going on, we should more or less know the causes of these diseases, so that we can better treat them symptomatically. We should also take better care of our children in daily life and let them exercise more so that they can have good resistance when their bodies are strong.