background: febrile convulsion (fc) is one of the most common causes of seizure in children. oral diazepam or oral midazolam are two mostly recommended drugs for fc prevention, but the effectiveness of these drugs remains controversial. prophylactic use of oral anticonvulsant drugs is thus a questionable practice. this study was carried out to compare the effect of using different diazepam dose...

how to cite this article: karimzadeh p, rezayi a, togha m, ahmadabadi f, derakhshanfar h, azargashb e, khodaei f. the best time for eeg recording in febrile seizure. iran j child neurol. 2014 winter; 8(1):20-25. 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...

OBJECTIVE Prediction of a recurrent febrile seizure during subsequent episodes of fever. DESIGN Study of the data of the temperatures, seizure recurrences, and baseline patient characteristics that were collected at a randomized placebo controlled trial of ibuprofen syrup to prevent febrile seizure recurrences. SETTING Two pediatric hospitals in the Netherlands. PATIENTS A total of 230 ch...

how to cite this article : salehiomran mr, hoseini sm, ghabeli juibary a. intermittent diazepam versus continuous phenobarbital to prevent recurrence of febrile seizures: a randomized controlled trial. iran j child neurol. winter 2016;10(1):21-24. abstract objective febrile seizure is the most common neurologic problem in children between 3 months to 5 years old. two to five percent of children...

The aim of this study was to assess the number of fever episodes as a risk factor for febrile seizure recurrence during the first 6 months after the last previous febrile seizure. In a 6-month follow-up study of 155 children, aged 3 months to 5 y, with a first or a recurrent febrile seizure, the occurrence of fever episodes and febrile seizure recurrences was prospectively documented. Using log...

Febrile seizures are common and mostly benign. They are the most common cause of seizures in children less than five years of age. There are two categories of febrile seizures, simple and complex. Both the International League against Epilepsy and the National Institute of Health has published definitions on the classification of febrile seizures. Simple febrile seizures are mostly benign, but ...

BACKGROUND Febrile convulsions, or febrile seizures, are frequently encountered in paediatrics, and despite often being self limiting, these seizures strike fear in the hearts of patients' carers. OBJECTIVE This article reviews the assessment and management of febrile seizures in children. DISCUSSION The initial assessment of a child who convulses with fever should be directed at finding a ...

objective febrile seizure is the most common problem in pediatric neurology that occurs in 3- 4 % of children. the purpose of this study was to determine febrile seizure recurrence frequency and to evaluate its risk factors. materials & methods in a descriptive prospective study, 139 children (6 months to 6 years) with first febrile seizure were admitted to yazd shaheed sadoughi hospital betwee...