What does a febrile seizure look like?

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Is it like shivering or more dramatic?

from my experience, more dramatic. Certainly more intense than shivering. My son had two. He was unconscious, rocking violently and quickly, not breathing and turned blue.

Like quaking, fitting on a minorish scale. My baby sort of shrieked when she had one as well.

I pretty much blocked DD's out of my memory, but Tinker just reminded me that DD also shrieked which alerted me that something was wrong. I also remember her eyes rolled back and she wasn't fully concious. We were on holiday and had been there 1 hour in a private villa, so had to find the hospital ourselves. To make matters even worse, we had a flat tyre on the way. DD was 17 months at the time and made a full recovery.

My ds has had three.Please god no more.the first time he was screaming in the night(VERY unusual for him to wake up in the night)When we went in to his room he was face down completly limp as i picked him up he was like a limp rag-no movement whatsoever but he was looking in my eyes and sreaming.Called ambulance.Didnt regain movement of limbs for an hour and a half.Was told it could have been the after effects of a convulsion.The second time he woke in the night with a high temp (105!!) as i was stripping him off to mop him down with water he started to fit.His body went ridgid and limbs jerked his eyes were rolling backwards and he was making a gurgling noise and dribble was coming out of his mouth.The third time was much the same.God i have just had a good cry writing this.Bloody horrible thing to watch your child go through.

oh gosh that sounds awful. I can only begin to imagine how utterly awful and despairing that must have been for all of you. At least that answers my question - no chance of missing it. I thought it may look a bit like the shivering you get with a fever but clearly it's much more than that.

Horrible!
Ds1 had his first and I called an ambulance, the second one he had in hospital after being admitted as the cause for the raised temp. was a kidney infection he had had for over 2 months but the Dovs had never picked up, despite me taking him back week after week.

Both times he was shivering, teeth chattering, blue lips, drooling, eyes rolling about, limpness then inconsolable crying for about 30 minutes.

I paranoid about them now and as soon as he gets a temp he finds himself butt naked, just in case, which tends to perk him up no end!

It is more and its horrific, as I said I have blocked it from my memory. I hope you never have to experience it, and apologies to anyone who has ever been through something more serious but it is just so scary at the time (especially in a foreign country!)

Does anybody else find themselves checking their temp every five mins when they have a virus.Hence the name.Poor little sod must think his bedroom is a ice box at night when his temp is slightly up.

My DS is used to be stripped bare when he's a bit off colour and being chased around with the thermometer for his ears! I joke now but I honestly don't think I will ever get over the fright of him fitting. The second one was on Christmas Day, just as lunch was about to be served and our friends arrived. We left them with our DD and dashed off in an ambulance again and spent the day at the hospital. Came home and cried into my rock hard crispy roast dinner! He was 2.5 at the time and he's never had another one and he's 6 now but I still worry more when he's ill than DD.

I know that I would be beside myself. Totally beside myself. Awful.

DD has had a high temp since sunday (but none when dosed up). She last saw the Dr on Monday. When should I go again?

Did they check for infection? If not I would go back tomorrow, if temp is still high she's obv fighting something off and might need anti-b's. keep her cool, but not cold, and a convulsion might never happen so don't worry too much but just take precautions. it's a rapid spike in temp that causes the fit so a long steady high temp is less of a concern with regards to convulsions I believe.

ds3's didn;t involve any shivering- he just passed out- sort of rolled backwards in a collapse. One paediatrician said it was 'atypical' another said it was 'quite normal' so who knows. I couldn't rouse him though.

DS (12yrs) has had about 20 of them and DD (10yrs) had 4.
DS's head rolls back, drools and the shaking is like a rhythmic tic.
It usually the first sign that he is ill as it is the temperature shooting up rapidly that causes it.

When he comes round he is confused then usually sleeps for quite a long time and has no memory of what happened.

He has one in the toilet of Macdonalds when he was 8 and managed to bash his head on the wall and on the toilet on the way down. Scared a poor man to death in there.