OBJECTIVES American Academy of Pediatrics consensus statement recommendations are to consider strongly for infants 6 to 12 months of age with a first simple febrile seizure and to consider for children 12 to 18 months of age with a first simple febrile seizure lumbar puncture for cerebrospinal fluid analysis. Our aims were to determine compliance with these recommendations and to assess the rat...

UNLABELLED Convulsions triggered by fever are the most common type of seizures in childhood, and 20% to 30% of them have recurrence. The prophylactic treatment is still controversial, so we performed a systematic review to find out the effectiveness of continuous phenobarbital and intermittent diazepam compared to placebo for febrile seizure recurrence. METHOD Only randomized, double-blind, p...

Background and Objectives:    Febrile convulsion is one of the most common types of seizure in childhood. Its pathogenesis is unknown, so studying its cause is valuable. The purpose of this study was to determine the serum level of zinc and magnesium in children withfebrileconvulsion (F.C) (3 months to 6 years age). Patients and Methods: In this analytical case-control study, serum le...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the oxidative status following a seizure in children experiencing a simple febrile seizure. METHODS The cross-sectional study was conducted at Harran University, Turkey, between January and September 2011. It comprised 32 paediatric patients who, within the preceding 8 hours, had experienced a seizure due to upper respiratory tract infection and had been diagnosed with s...

OBJECTIVE Some studies suggest that detection of epileptic discharge is unusual during the first postictal week of febrile seizure and others believe that EEGs carried out on the day of the seizure are abnormal in as many as 88% of the patients. In this study, we intend to compare early and late EEG abnormalities in febrile seizure. MATERIALS & METHODS EEG was recorded during daytime sleep, 2...

Objective: To determine whether the epileptic predispositions of recurrent febrile seizures (onset age 1 and below) could be predicted earlier using analysis SCN1A gene sequencing. Material Methods: The study included 55 patients aged between 0-18 who were admitted to pediatric emergency service with a seizure. Patients selected based on criteria presenting (two or more) onset one below, having...

BACKGROUND Febrile seizure (FS) is the most common childhood seizures which occur in 2-5% of children. Studies about association between iron deficiency and febrile seizure have shown contradictory results. The purpose of this study was to compare the iron status of children with first febrile seizure and healthy control group. MATERIALS AND METHODS In an analytic case-control study , iron st...

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