What is feral convulsion?

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What is feral convulsion?

Answer 1

Febrile convulsions occur in young children when there is a rapid increase in their body temperature. It affects up to 1 in 20 children between the ages of one and four but can affect children between six months and about five years old.

Children who are at risk may naturally have a lower resistance to febrile convulsion than others.

What is the risk of suffering a febrile convulsion?

Children may inherit the tendency to suffer febrile convulsion from their parents.

If either parent suffered a febrile convulsion as a child, the risk of the child getting it rises 10 to 20 per cent.

If both parents and their child have at some point suffered a febrile convulsion, the risk of another child getting it rises 20 to 30 per cent.

Nevertheless, the child's susceptibility also depends on whether the child frequently gets infections. About 4 out of 10 children who have had febrile convulsions will get them again at some stage, although the risk differs greatly from child to child. The child's risk of febrile convulsion rises if:

they are genetically predisposed to it

they suffer frequent illnesses, which include high temperatures

the first attack of febrile convulsion was accompanied by a relatively low body temperature - below 39ºC.

Answer 2

The word feral means wild - for instance a feral cat.

I think you may mean febrile. Febrile convulsions are convulsions which are brought on by a fever.

Answer 3

Do you mean febrile convulsion?