Febrile convulsions - what if she has one in the night?

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Dd had her 2nd one last night. The first time she had been unwell and I've been giving her calpol any time she's had a temp. Today she was fine, it seemed to come out of nowhere. I am scared that on the future she will have one in the middle of the night and I won't know.

I don't mean to worry you but I'd take her to see the doctor asap.
My only experience is with epileptic fits & with my sister, she always bit her tongue so the blood was the give away.
Could you try co sleeping with her? Or atleast sleeping in the same room? Air bed, sleeping bag etc
Good luck & I hope she's better soon xx

I really wouldn't worry.
First of all it is very rare to have mote than two. We have a genetic problem called gefs+ which means some of the children I'm my family have fertile convulsions past the age of 5 and have more than normal.
Ds had his last one at 13 and had over 20 and dd had 4 between the age 3 and 4.

My mum and sister had fc until the age of 10.

Fc very very rarely do any harm to the child, only to its mothers nerves as Christopher green puts it so well.

There is very little you can do to prevent them because it is the temperature shooting up that causes the fc and it is usually the first sign of illness.
Fwiw my mum says my sister may have had one in her sleep, the only sign would have been she wet the bed, my Ds never wet himself during a fit so I will never know if he had one in the night. I very much doubt he has.
A gp can't do much, they will only refer if the child is over 5, or the fits are long,or very regular. We were given diazipam in case the fit went over 5 minutes and usual advice to treat the fever with paracetamol and or ibroprufen.
They are scary but please don't worry

Sorry my post wasn't clear, her first one was a few months ago. She only had one last night. We took her to a&e do she's been checked. Dr was snippy with me saying I shouldn't have let her temp get so high but she was fine all day so I didn't see it coming. I am worried it could happen in the future like that and if we were all asleep I wouldn't know.

What do you think will happen if she had one and you didn't know?
How long were the fcs she has had?
How old is she?
As I said above the fcs happen when the temperature shoots up, so is usually the first sign of illness. you can't stop it getting high if you don't know she is ill in the first place.
To me the safest place to have one is in a soft bed. Because my ds has had them at a lot older age he has had them at school and out and about and hurt himself falling.
It is very very rare to have fc past the age of 5 so please don't worry about that.
How far is your room from hers, I am pretty sure that I would hear the bed moving if dc had one.