{"id":4555,"date":"2025-02-18T08:55:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:55:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/uncategorized\/febrile-seizure\/"},"modified":"2025-02-18T08:55:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T08:55:29","slug":"febrile-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/news\/febrile-seizure\/","title":{"rendered":"About Febrile Seizures in Childhood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aafp.org\/afp\/2012\/0115\/p149.html\" title=\"Febrile Seizures: Risks, Evaluation, and Prognosis\">Febrile seizures<\/a>\u00a0are convulsions that can happen <a href=\"https:\/\/kidshealth.org\/en\/parents\/febrile.html\" title=\"Febrile Seizure Information for Parents\">when a young child has a fever<\/a> above 100.4\u00b0F (38\u00b0C). While the fever may continue for some time, the seizures usually last for a few minutes and stop on their own. Febrile seizures\u00a0are the most common seizures of childhood, occurring in 2 to 5 percent of children six months to\u00a0five years of age.<\/p>\n<p>Approximately one in every 25 children will have at least one febrile seizure, and more than one-third of these children will have additional febrile seizures before they outgrow the tendency to have them.\u00a0There is a 15 to 70 percent risk of recurrence in the first two years after an initial\u00a0febrile seizure<strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Febrile seizures usually occur in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years and are particularly common in toddlers. During a seizure, there is a small chance that the child may be injured by falling\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationwidechildrens.org\/conditions\/febrile-seizures\" title=\"About Febrile Seizures\">or may choke from<\/a>\u00a0food or saliva in the mouth. Never place anything in the child&#8217;s mouth during a convulsion. Objects placed in the mouth can be broken and obstruct the child&#8217;s airway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Febrile seizures\u00a0are convulsions that can happen when a young child has a fever above 100.4\u00b0F (38\u00b0C). While the fever may continue for some time, the seizures usually last for a few minutes and stop on their own. Febrile seizures\u00a0are the most common seizures of childhood, occurring in 2 to 5 percent of children six months [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_trash_the_other_posts":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4555\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dechoker.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}