Febrile Seizure

I’m really sorry, and know what you are going thru. It will be a good idea to have the doctor run some blood test. Also, sometimes children swallow things and can get a fever from it (ex. paper, toy, pennies). If I were you I would also ask the doctor to do a stomach x-ray. My cousin had a similar situation and her son had swallow 3 quarters, kept getting fever and the doctors said the same non-sense thing to wait a couple of day. Long story short they found out about it because the baby did not want to eat at all, and mentioned to his mommy that he did not want to eat any more (money). That is when my cousin rushed him to the hospital, they found the quarters in the middle of his throught and stomach. I don’t want to scar you but, we parents need to be more persistent with Doctors.
A.

J.,

A friend of mine, her daughter thankfully did not experience seizures, sorry to hear that yours did. However, her daughter did experience fevers consistently for more than six months, she was then diagnosed with kidney refluxe and that was causing the high fevers and keeping her in the doctors office. You might want to ask the doctors about that possibility.

Good luck.

S.
SAHM of 3 boys.

Hi J.,
I cannot imagine what you went through when your daughter had the seizure.
I do want to tell you, as far as the Motrin/Tylenol thing goes, keep on it. My DS had Roseola with a 104.3 temp and I set my alarm clock to be sure he got his meds, of course along with the tepid baths, etc...

I hope your baby is on the road to a speedy recovery!!
L.

J., Im sorry about your baby, I know how frustrating can it be when they are sick and no one seems to tell you what`s going on.. Last year my little one, he is four, also had fever for about a week, as high as your daughter did, I did not know what to do, the Tylenol and Motrin was also what I was told, I took him to the hospital after the third day and they kept saying he was fighting the virus, to keep giving him the Tylenol, etc, but his fever would not go down. When I went back to the Doc, since nothing seemed to work, she decided to test him for Strep Throat, which she should have done in the beginning, and it came out positive, make sure she is tested, this causes high fever and sometimes even vomiting. I hope she feels better.

M.

J.,
Having gone through this myself, I know how scary this must of been for you. In all the reserach I have done via the internet and talking with my doctor it suggests that febrile seizures are more common then we realize. Everything I have read suggests that they do not have any affect on the childs brain or other organs after the fact and that this is just the way our childs body reacts to a fever that spikes quickly.

My little one has had three in the first two years of his life, he is now 3. We are blessed that we have not seen one in a year or so. Although, I am diligent about giving him Motrin even at the slighest of fever. The last seizure he had he actually was able to tell me that he felt funny and needed me to pick him up.

The only suggestions that I have is to make sure that little one eats a wholesome diet, children's vitamin and to watch for those getting sick signs. (runny nose, pulling at the ears, etc). Should she have another seizure just remember to place her on her side on a carpeted floor and be sure nothing is in her mouth. Continue to talk to her during the seizure. The ER told me it was not necessary to call an ambulance but to just bring him in once his seizure was completed. I expalined to them that I would call the ambulance everytime and that the EMT's are better able to handle the situation then I and asked if they had ever tried to put a child in a car seat after a seizure.

I still worry about him having another seizure and keep a monitor in his room so that I may hear him, told his preschool teacher/school, family & friends, babysitter what to expect and do should it occur when I am not around. Our peditrician stated that the peek time is 8 months to five years. I hope some of this helps.

Hi J.,
How scarey! Recently, my 4 year old had a viral/bacterial infection that kept him at 104 for a whole week. Since he was on antiboitics, the doctor said let them run its course. Every time the tylenol/motrin wore off, he also spiked right up to 104 - very scarey! but it did break on the 7th day. the doctor said that as long as he is a bit active and eating some while on the tylenol/motrin, not to worry. but if the fever was down and he was still lathragic, then i was to bring him in. i had another experience when my now 3 yr old was 15 months: he woke up in the middle of the night w/a 104 and i took him to the er. they immediately gave him a suppository (they are quickly absorbed) his fever came down, they ran a bunch of labs and determined that it was teething. my ped disagreed but his fever never returned and he was fine. maybe ask your ped if the viral infection may have also created a bacterial infection that you may need antibiotics for. with such a high fever for so long it's best to cover all areas.
i hope this helps! keep praying, it really helps!!!
god bless you & your little girl,
T.

J.,

I feel your pain... My son is now 10 months old and he had two seizures in a week. The first one, his fever was only 102.5 and the second one his fever was 101.7. He to was sick and at the time of his first seizure he had an ear infection and was on medication. Anyways my point is its not how high the fever is that will cause the seizure but how fast your childs temperature rises. Also I just recently went to a Neurologist and my son is having an EEG Brain scan tommorrow to see if he may have a seizure disorder. Hopefully this is not the case for either of our children. How you can tell is the length of the seizure a normal febrile seizure my doctor said should be 2 mins. or less. I know when it happens it seems like very long time but if you see your daughter have another try to be aware of how long it lasts. In my son's case his second seizure was much too long in my doc's opinion to be just a febrile seizure but I still praying for the best. I never thought my son would never have another one when I left the hosptial the first time but days later he did. They are very scarey thing to deal with. The mortin needs to be given even though I hate gaving him so much. I am believer that God only gives us what we can handle, hang in there your daughter will be better soon.

Hello J. ,

My 22 month old son has been Hospitalize 8 times and 2 of them were in the PIC-U @ Joe Dimaggio Great Hospital (for Asthma attacks ,) I know how scary it can be . Seeing My Son not able to Breath is devastating . I can understand how you feel when you see your little Girl running such High Fevers ( I have not gone thru that though). I would ask the Dr. to run Test . I would ask ask and aks lots of questions . We are our Children Advocates , Since they can't explain how they feel . Fever are signs of Infections and is the way the body reacts to try to fight the infection.But too many fever episodes , I'm not sure !!! I know how frustrated and upsetting you can feel but like I mention before ask lots of Question to the Dr.Don't just take it is normal for an answer. J. I hope your little girl gets better soon and please keep me posted !!!!

~ A.

Hi,Luckily my kids never spiked a fever that high. But they have had viral infections with a fever (up to 103) that has lasted 3-4 days. My doc told me to alternate Motrin w/ Tylenol, so that they can have one or the other every 3 hours to keep the fever down. What I've noticed is that Motrin is always faster acting to lower the fever and lasts much longer than Tylenol (my kids fevers will always spike back up too after 4 hours w/ tylenol). So let's say you give Tylenol at 3 pm. , you can give Motrin at 6 pm, Tylenol at 9 pm, etc...
Best wishes and hope she gets betteer soon.

J.,

when my son was about your daughter's age, he too went through about two months of a similar fever thing. he'd get a really high fever > 102 for a day or two & then back down for a few days. then, we'd start the cycle all over again. the highest his ever got was 105. thankfully, he never did have febrile seizures! i was fully expecting him to as they run in our family & because of the high fever. the doctor could never figure out what was wrong w/him & also attributed to it to a virus. as a parent, it is very frustrating, but hang in there! and remember, listen to your intuition! good luck!

Hi J., my name is E., and I am so sorry that happened to your little girl. I have a little boy who will be 3 this month and for the first year of his life I lived in the E.R. He always had very high fevers, they would start out very low grade and then spike to 104-105, I would rush him to the hospital and they would tell me the same thing viral and no antibotics just motrin and tylenol. His fevers would last weeks with very little breaks and there was nothing that they could do for me, so I was giving him his meds every 4 and 6 hours like clockwork because as soon I it would wear off the fever would spike. I did also buy those patches for the forehead to try and keep him comfortable and he did like them. I would also not let him get chills because that causes fevers to get higher, so a cool bath is good but don't let her get cold and shiver because it will go higher, that is what the nurse and the hospital told me. I did notice that once he was about a year and a half he has not had a fever so severe, and I also have a 6 year old daughter and I have never had a fever problem with her. Good luck with your little girl and I hope so gets better soon.

HHi J.,
My daughter is 2 yrs old now and I went through the exact same thing with my daughter when she was 13 months old. And all of a sudden my daughter had a fever and I gave her tylenol but I gave it to her too late because right after i gave her the medication she had the seizure. We took her to the hospital too and it was viural so I too could not do anything. Now once I see she has a slight fever like anything over 105.0 i give her tylenol and if after like an hour if it keeps getting higher I give her motrin. Thank god she only had it once, but i took her to get an MRI of the brain and neverything just to make sure everything was ok. It's hard for us moms to see our child go through that and no be able to do anything, but the child doesn't remember anything so thats good. well take care and I wish you the best

I just read your request today, and my daughter is now 19 months but went through a lot of viruses with high fevers. My doctor said the same about motrin/tylenol every 3 hours and it would last approximately 5 days. My daughter would get 104+ fevers. My doc says she's a "high fever kid.".

She would get these viruses about every 2-3 weeks, and it's frustrating that there is no medication for it besides the tylenol.

Hang in there...not to say my daughter won't get a virus again, but it seems she's out of that phase. And my daughter is a bit of a nightmare when she's not feeling well.

Good luck

This same thing happened to my son yesterday he started having a seizure at the zoo and stopped breathing when he finnally got in the ambulance it was 104.6 and since we have been home like you said his temp will go down with the tylonol but as soon as the tylonol starts to wear off he gets a temp again. I am a reck too Im afraid to let him sleep by himself fear he will have another seizure I have to take him to his regular dr. but as far as i heard if i keep giving him tylonol every four hours and he doesnt stay to hot it souldnt happen again.