(HealthDay)—It's frightening to see your child have a fever-related (febrile) seizure, but researchers are learning more about who's more susceptible. Febrile seizures are defined as seizures in ...

The risk of febrile convulsions increases with the child's fever, and children who suffer from repeated febrile convulsions during their first year of life have an increased risk of developing ...

This page lists all known medications that could potentially lead to 'Convulsions generalised' as a side effect. It's important to note that mild side effects are quite common with medications. The ...

The older term "ether convulsions" is inappropriate since these attacks have been described as occurring as well under anesthesia employing nitrous oxide and oxygen, chloroform, vinethene, ethylene ...

Shakespeare describes an attack of epilepsy or the 'falling sickness' in the famous Roman statesman and commander Julius Caesar in Act I, Scene ii of his tragedy ‘Julius Caesar’, Casca describes how ...

Neonatal convulsions are abnormal movements of the body or portions of the body due to abnormal brain activity. Here's are tests to detect these seizures In an interview with HT Lifestyle, Dr Kishore ...

A convulsion is when muscles of the body contract uncontrollably. The contractions are usually rapid and involuntary. They can last from as little as few seconds to as much as minutes. They are ...

Child health experts have warned that poorly treated infections, malaria, and meningitis could trigger convulsions in children and may lead to brain damage and permanent disabilities without urgent ...

My two-year-old was looking a little peaky, all right. Ikea was stifling, coming in from the cold of January, and the two boys were wrapped up in too many layers. We were pushing a trolley through the ...