Febrile Seizures

Written by Rexanne Mancini


While fever isrepparttar body's natural defense against infection, approximately five percent of children have what are classified as "simple" febrile seizures while running a fever.

If anyone has a child who suffers from febrile seizures, take heart ... 99 percent of children outgrow them byrepparttar 110708 time they are six years old and there are generally no ill after effects.

Febrile seizures can occur in babies as young as three months old. Whenrepparttar 110709 child is running a fever, a seizure brought on byrepparttar 110710 sudden rise of their body temperature can overtake them.

Febrile seizures look like epileptic attacks and they are one ofrepparttar 110711 most frightening events a parent can live through. These seizures happen only when a child has a fever and are not a precursor to epilepsy, although in about 1 percent of cases, febrile seizures are an indication of more complicated neurological problems.

When my older daughter was 18 months old, she had her first febrile seizure. Thankfully, I had read about them and knew what was happening. The first episode lasted less than two minutes and byrepparttar 110712 timerepparttar 110713 paramedics arrived, she was sleeping peacefully. I wish I could say that was her last febrile seizure. She had at least ten more inrepparttar 110714 following four years, withrepparttar 110715 last episode occurring when she was five-and-a-half-years-old.

While we tried to learn everything there was to know about these seizures,repparttar 110716 best explanation any doctor had was that they were hereditary. Sometimes I wonder aboutrepparttar 110717 genetic conclusions doctors jump to. As far as my husband and I knew, no one in our immediate families had recurring febrile seizures, nor did our younger daughter ever have a febrile seizure. As we were told by numerous physicians to expect our other children to have them too, we were enormously relieved when we were spared yet another 5 years of anxiety and living in fear ofrepparttar 110718 dreaded fevers.

The Importance of Fathers

Written by Rexanne Mancini


There is no doubt that mothers play an all-important leading role inrepparttar lives of their children. They arerepparttar 110707 obvious heroes of child rearing. But what about a father's role? Just how important arerepparttar 110708 dads ofrepparttar 110709 world compared torepparttar 110710 almighty image of mother? My belief is that fathers play just as important a role as mothers. Different, yes. Possibly not as nurturing, not as all-sacrificing but just as important inrepparttar 110711 developmental and emotional well being of a child.

Dads arerepparttar 110712 solid foundation of our lives. They arerepparttar 110713 shore we swim to when our arms and legs feel increasingly tired. They arerepparttar 110714 strength we rely on as we take our first tentative steps intorepparttar 110715 world. Dads can be tender, tough, fragile or powerful but they are probablyrepparttar 110716 most uncomplicated love we will ever know. For daughters, Daddy isrepparttar 110717 first man they adore ...repparttar 110718 first man whose eyes shine with overwhelming amazement when they look at us. He isrepparttar 110719 first man to fall in love with us.

For sons, Daddy isrepparttar 110720 idol they first aspire to emulate ... their mirror image of what will be and possiblyrepparttar 110721 only man they will ever feel comfortable loving.

Daddy isrepparttar 110722 first man who held us, as a loving parent, with a lump in his throat so huge, onlyrepparttar 110723 joy of that love could eraserepparttar 110724 overwhelming pain of choking on unexpected raw emotion. I think when a father holds his newborn baby, he is touched by pure vulnerability forrepparttar 110725 first time in his adult life, leaving him forever humbled byrepparttar 110726 unexplained miracles of life.

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