Febrile convulsion & rotavirus

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afternoon all,

my 13 month old had his 1st febrile convulsion on Wednesday afternoon. Ambulance called and taken to hospital (I was at work at the time so went with dad). He had his second one at 1 am later that night and I called ambulance again as it was longer. They thought it was secondary to rotavirus and have just said monitor and keep temp down with paracetamol and ibuprofen.

I just have a question on practicalities please.
have been keeping him in bed next to me because it was the scariest thing in the world to see him fitting and I don’t want to miss it in case it happens in the cot again.
for anyone who has experienced this in the past,

1. when did you relax? Or at least be ok with letting baby sleep on his own in the cot again?
2. I’ve been giving regular paracetamol to keep on top of the temp but have stopped today as he is a bit more like himself and starting to eat/drink/play more. Is this ok? I’m scared I’ll miss a temp spike and he’ll fit again if I don’t keep giving paracetamol
3. when would you say it’s ok to go back to nursery?

thank you for reading and any advice

The advice from medics is that there's nothing specific you can do to prevent future FCs, they'll either happen or not. The idea of "getting on top of the temperature" to prevent them, with medicines or other means, is outdated

My little one has had 2 of these, one at 14 months and one at 20 months. It is terrifying, I do understand. We ended up in a&e both times. The first time we got home about 1am, the second 9pm. We put him to bed after in his cot both times. He's never co slept and he's been in his own room since 6 months so he wouldn't have settled anywhere else and he was exhausted. We sat with him for a bit, but then we made sure we kept the monitor volume up all night and checked on him a million times. I could relax a bit more once he'd gone 24hrs with no more temps. Like someone said above, you can't predict them, you can't prevent them, and we were told by the doctors in a&e that no amount of calpol or nurofen would stop it happening if it was going to. I'd send him back to nursery as soon as he was fit and well/ once the exclusionary period for whatever he has got has passed x

Thank you, that’s very helpful