What is the disease when the baby has a fever and convulsions?

Before I became a parent, I didn’t know how to raise a child. Only after I had a child and became a parent did I realize that parents live for their children and the interests of their children are the most important. Many people think so, but no matter how well we do, children will get sick. Many people are discussing babies getting sick, having a fever, and having convulsions, but we have rarely encountered this. So what disease is it that causes a baby to have a fever and convulsions? Let’s compete together!

A baby's fever and convulsions are called high temperature convulsions, which are common emergencies in children. They occur when the baby's body temperature is higher than 39°C in the early stages of a respiratory infection or other infectious disease.

Among them, high fever convulsions caused by upper respiratory tract infection are the most common. Generally, when the child's body temperature rises sharply, the higher the temperature, the more likely the attack is. It manifests as sudden onset of generalized or localized muscle rigidity and clonic convulsions, most of which are accompanied by impaired consciousness. The incidence of convulsions in children is 10 times that of adults, especially in infants and young children.

Except newborns, babies of other ages may suffer from febrile convulsions. 90% of them occur between 6 months and 3 years old, 4% occur before 6 months old, 6% occur after 3 years old, and the average age of onset is 18-22 months.

For young mothers, please pay attention: when your child has a fever, you must pay attention to heat dissipation. I have seen many heartbreaking examples: parents think that when children have a high fever, they need to be wrapped tightly like adults to "sweat out" the child. Little do they know that this is exactly what will further increase the child's body temperature and induce febrile convulsions!

It manifests itself shortly after the onset of high fever (body temperature above 39°C) or when the body temperature rises suddenly, with whole-body or local muscle convulsions, staring, squinting, straightening or rolling up of the eyes, accompanied by loss of consciousness. Breathing may stop for 1-2 minutes. In severe cases, the lips may turn blue, and incontinence may sometimes occur. Most patients experience only one attack during one fever. It takes about 3-5 minutes, and the elderly can take up to 10 minutes.

We have solved the problem of what disease the baby has when he has a fever and convulsions. Now that we have children, we should increase our knowledge, because the child's health is the most important. Only when we have an understanding of some diseases can we better prevent our children from encountering some problems, and we will not panic when we encounter them, but solve these problems in a very measured way.