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3 years
Simple convulsion applies to my son. Is an EEG required? No medication at this time? How often will it happen? Recurrence won't harm the brain?
Dec 2, 2015

Dr. Zakia Dimassi Pediatrics
No EEG is required at this stage. The main intervention is prevention: whenever your son develops a febrile illness, you need to closely monitor his temperature and kind of "catch" it before it rises, because it is at the stage where the body temperature is rising from low-grade to high-grade fever that the febrile convulsions happen, unlike the common misconception that the convulsions occur with very high body temperatures (above 39 degrees Celsius). 
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