Febrile Seizures

There are few moments that shake parents as deeply as this one: Your child has a fever, and suddenly their small body convulses. The eyes roll back, the limbs jerk, consciousness is gone. Seconds stretch into eternities. You stand there, and everything inside you screams — but you can do nothing. Febrile seizures in infants and toddlers are among the most common neurological events in early childhood. Medicine calls them provoked epileptic seizures — a reaction of the still-immature nervous system to rapid rises in temperature. In the vast majority of cases they are medically harmless. But for the parents who witness them, it feels like a catastrophe.