Will a febrile seizure leave sequelae?

Children's physical health is an issue that their families are very concerned about. Once children have some symptoms, parents are very worried and don't know how to deal with it. We suggest that parents can learn more about common children's diseases so that when their children at home become sick, they will know how to deal with it. Febrile convulsions are a symptom that children are prone to, so will febrile convulsions leave sequelae?

Febrile convulsions refer to convulsions that occur in children when the body temperature rises to >= 39°C in the early stages of respiratory tract infection or other infectious diseases, excluding intracranial infection and other organic or metabolic diseases that cause convulsions. The main manifestations are sudden tonic or clonic convulsions of the whole body or local muscle groups, staring, squinting, straightening or rolling up of the eyes, accompanied by loss of consciousness. Febrile seizures are divided into simple febrile seizures and complex febrile seizures. It can occur in children of all ages (except the neonatal period), and is more common between 6 months and 4 years old. The prognosis of simple febrile convulsions is good, while the prognosis of complex febrile convulsions is poor.

1. Intravenous diazepam is the first choice. After controlling convulsions, sodium phenobarbital or other drugs are used to consolidate and maintain the therapeutic effect. Diazepam has side effects of suppressing breathing, heart rate and lowering blood pressure, so cardiopulmonary resuscitation measures should be prepared.

2. Amobarbital sodium or thiopental sodium should be used only when the above anticonvulsant drugs are ineffective. Thiopental sodium can cause laryngeal spasm. Do not move the head when using it to prevent laryngeal spasm. Once laryngeal spasm occurs, the head should be tilted back, the lower jaw should be lifted to prevent the root of the tongue from falling back, and atropine should be injected intramuscularly to relieve spasms.

3. When convulsions persist and intracranial hypertension occurs, measures to reduce intracranial pressure such as 20% mannitol and furosemide should be used.

4. For patients with high fever, physical cooling and/or drug cooling should be performed.

5. Give appropriate etiological treatment to convulsions of different causes.

In the above article, we suggest that parents can learn more about common childhood diseases so that once the child has a problem, they will know how to help the child treat the disease. In the above article, we raised a question, that is, whether febrile convulsions will cause sequelae. In fact, everyone can rest assured that febrile convulsions will not cause sequelae.