Study of rectal diazepam in prevention of simple febrile convulsions recurrence.
Year: 2011
Type: article
Abstract: Febrile convulsions, the most common seizure disorder during childhood are age dependent and are rare before 9 months and after 5 years of age.1,2 Approximately 30-50 % of children have recurrent seizures with later epi-sodes of fever and a small minority has numerous re-current febrile seizures.3,4 The routine management of a normal infant with simple febrile convulsions in-cludes a careful search for the cause of the fever and reassurance and education of the parents.5,6 In this randomized clinical trial, 80 children aged 9 months to 5 years with simple FC referred to Pedi-atric Neurology Clinic in 2003 were divided into two 40 patients ' random groups. We advised one group using rectal diazepam (0.5 mg/kg) in the form of gel named Diastat in addition to wet sponge and aceta-
Source: Europe PMC (PubMed Central)
Authors: M M Taghdiri, A Heidari, M Mojarrad, M Fallah
Institution: Hamedan University of Medical Sciences
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Neurology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1507960781