Talk:Febrile seizure

I reverted this article all the way back to the version by Waellll111 at 04:40, 21 September 2010. The edit by Jamhour-njitwill at 18:55, 23 November 2010 somehow messed up most of the formatting for references, and the problem was never corrected after that. Also, I don't think that the information added in that revision is entirely appropriate for this article—it's a little bit off-topic, and seems to be more of a "how-to" than encyclopedic content. While I'm sure Jamhour-njitwill's intention was to be helpful, I don't think these problems can be easily corrected at this point without reverting the article. It also doesn't appear that much, if any, information has been added since then, so a revert seems appropriate. —Guido del Confuso (talk) 01:19, 26 March 2011 (UTC)

cause

OMIM, Inherited Neuronal Ion Channelopathies: New Windows on Complex Neurological Diseases <-- discussion of sodium channel mutations that have been associated with febrile seizures. --JWSchmidt (talk) 21:21, 22 January 2010 (UTC)

Not significant?

"Simple febrile seizures do not cause permanent brain injury; do not tend to recur frequently (children tend to outgrow them); and do not make the development of adult epilepsy significantly more likely (about 3–5%), compared with the general public (1%)."

How is 3-5% not significantly more than 1% ??? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 134.153.95.138 (talk) 16:00, 15 February 2012 (UTC) It's not significantly more because of the way statistics work, especially in medicine. 2-4% more is not that much, considering the variables involved - geographic area, underlying illness, type of seizure (simple vs complex), other associated neurological problems, type of study, patient compliance, and so on. For example, a lot of parents won't report all seizures once they're assured that febrile seizures are benign in general. Besides, few studies have followed enough people from childhood until adulthood to prove the correlation between febrile seizures and epilepsy. This is quite difficult, as people might change residence, might go see other doctors for later epilepsy evaluation, and so on. Thus, that increase of 3-5% is quite questionable as it is. It would be relevant if it was more than 10%, but that's just my opinion... after I've read dozens of studies on this matter. 109.102.32.73 (talk) 01:07, 17 August 2012 (UTC)

gastroenteritis

recent studies have shown that gastroenteritis is in fact not normally associated with febrile seizures, as in only a very small percent (around 5-7%) of patients presented with FS with underlying GE. I'd rather remove GE or rephrase "normally precipitated by a recent upper respiratory tract infection or gastroenteritis" - there are other causes, upper respiratory tract infections being at around 74%. For example, otitis media is also 7% but I don't see it here. I won't modify myself right now, but when I finish studying this subject I will do so and add my sources too. Meanwhile, this article needs revision badly. 109.102.32.73 (talk) 21:15, 9 July 2012 (UTC)

also - I've found quite a lot of studies that revealed that febrile seizures are more frequent between 3 months and 5 years (not 6m-6y), the limits being 1 month and 6 years (though rarely after the age of 5 years, and when they are present it's usually in their complex, not simple form, associated with other neurological affections). I'm not going to modify this just yet, as there are as many opinions as there are authors, and I've not yet finished my own study. 109.102.32.73 (talk) 14:46, 3 August 2012 (UTC)