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Febrile Seizures and Spinal Taps

It is late at night and your baby wakes up with a high fever. While you are comforting your child and called the pediatrician, the baby goes into a seizure. What do you do? chances are that you rush your baby to the emergency room where it may be standard procedure to perform a spinal tap to rule out bacterial meningitis. But new research is showing that this painful procedure that requires sedation may not be the best choice for your baby. Read more to find out what the new information is all about. Febrile seizures are very scary but … Continue reading →

What To Do For a Febrile Seizure

Watching Laura shake was perhaps one of my most scariest parenting moments. However, I am a pretty calm person and when it comes to emergencies–I’m pretty quick thinking too. Only a doctor can tell you if your child’s seizure is related to the fever. If he’s young, has a high fever, and had a seizure after the fever started or spiked–there’s a very good chance it’s related to the fever. However, here’s what you should do if your child ever has a seizure: 1. DON’T PANIC! Know that febrile seizures in and of themselves are not harmful. The potential for … Continue reading →

Febrile Seizures

It was about 5 o’clock and my husband was due home in about an hour. I had put Laura down for a nap around 2:30 and she was sleeping unusually long. When she woke up, I picked her up and immediately ran for the thermometer. Something was wrong. She went from having no fever before the nap to a fever of 104 in just two hours. Suddenly, her body stiffened and begin to shake uncontrollably. I carefully put her down on our huge, over-sized, “squishy chair” and let her shake for what seemed to be forever. (In reality, it was … Continue reading →