The following are the most important diseases or complications that may be contributed to by a febrile convulsion:
Psyche – Nervous System (F00-F99; G00-G99).
- Epilepsy – rarely occurs later in life (3%).
Symptoms and abnormal clinical and laboratory findings not classified elsewhere (R00-R99)
- Complicated febrile seizure – lasts longer than 15 minutes; must be interrupted by medication
- Sudden Unexplained Death in Childhood (SUDC): in the SUDC group, the prevalence for febrile seizure was 28.8% and in the Sudden Explained Death in Childhood (SEDC) group, the prevalence was 22.1%.Note: In the general population, febrile seizure occurs in 2-5% of children.
- Recurrent febrile convulsions – usually ends from school age.
Other indications
- The child’s development is not affected by simple febrile seizure.
- Febrile convulsions that occur in children after vaccination are no more dangerous than febrile convulsions that occur in children from other causes (eg, viral infection).
