Consultant paediatric neurologist in the Department of Paediatrics, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Joy Alejo, tellsis convulsion?
Another cause, which is a popular one, is meningitis. Meningitis is a bacterial infection of the brain and can be very severe both in children and adults. It will cause seizures. Tuberculosis can also infect the brain and cause seizures. Brain tumors, which are also one of the dreaded diseases like cancers, can cause that too. Also, in children who are less than five years old, we have found out that in some, high body temperature can trigger convulsion.
There is also a tiny risk that it can progress to epilepsy and epilepsy now means that even with nothing happening, the child continues to have seizures. You wouldn’t want a child who has had seizures to keep going with that anyhow because there’s always that chance of less than one per cent. Epilepsy means that the child is having at least two or more seizures that are unprovoked.
If a child or a person has seizures, the first thing you want to do is to put the child on the ground. The meaning is that the person is usually not conscious of the environment, so, the likelihood of a fall is very high. The person should be placed on the ground, not on the table, not on a chair because in the process of thrashing around, they can fall and do themselves even greater harm.
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