Sentences with phrase «febrile convulsions»

A recent study by Paul Armstrong at the Department of Health, Western Australia, and colleagues reported that the rate of febrile convulsions among young children was 3.3 per 1000 doses, 200 times that reported in a U.S. influenza vaccine safety study.

The 15 June letter accuses CSL of failing to adequately investigate why its Fluvax influenza vaccine last year caused a sharply elevated rate of febrile convulsions in some children under the age of five.

These seizures, or febrile convulsions, usually occur at the very beginning of an illness before the parents even realize that there is a fever.

Treating the fever will not prevent febrile convulsions and you should not use medications for this purpose.

A temperature in this range indicates the need for infant paracetamol as well as urgent medical care as there is an increased risk of having a febrile convulsion.