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And no heat is febrile convulsions?

Febrile convulsions are more common in the period of the central nervous system dysfunction in children emergency symptoms in infants and young children are more often, good for 6 months ~5 years of age, ~20 months to 9 months to peak, its incidence is about 2%~4%, in Europe and for the 2%~5%.


Febrile convulsions are mostly caused by various infectious diseases, respiratory infections most often above, typical clinical manifestation of their attack is: sudden loss of consciousness, with eyes on the ball turned, staring or strabismus, facial muscle or muscle rigidity of limbs, spasm or constantly twitch. Time can be from a few seconds to several minutes of the onset, sometimes repeated attacks, or even status. Convulsions are brain cell dysfunction at a time, causing abnormal cells discharge, combined with different degree of hypoxia during convulsion, caused some damage to the central nervous system, serious sequelae of febrile seizures may be remnants of the nervous system.


No heat convulsions common in metabolic diseases, nutritional disorders (such as amino acid metabolism diseases, phenylketonuria, high calcium, low sodium, low sodium, low potassium, low blood sugar, vitamin B6-dependent); various toxic encephalopathy, central nervous system diseases (congenital malformations, trauma), hysteria, epilepsy, etc. This disease usually does not heat, but sometimes because of seizures for a long time, can also cause body temperature to rise. Febrile convulsion consequences rather than cause, generally through a detailed history of asking, after looking for the primary foci of the disease and the cause, and febrile convulsion is not difficult to identify without heat convulsion.

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