What you should know about heat cramps: Heat cramps are convulsive seizures that affect children between the ages of 6 months to 5 years, and are usually caused by a high temperature. Are heat cramps dangerous ?: Parents often get intense panic and confusion when seeing their child during a seizure, but it does not result in any serious damage or complications, as it does not cause brain damage and does not affect the intelligence or development of the child as some believe.
The seizures of heat convulsion last for a few minutes and end automatically and rarely exceed more than ten minutes. In this case, the child does not need the complex diagnostic tests that a child with epilepsy usually needs.
What do I do for my child during a heat seizure ?
Put your baby on his side so that he does not - God forbid - suffocate from swallowing saliva secretions.
Do not put anything in your child''s mouth during a seizure.
Do not restrict your baby''s movement during a seizure. Perhaps the most difficult thing to do in this situation is to keep your calm and monitor your baby until the convulsions end automatically.
If the duration of the seizure increases more than ten minutes, transfer your child to the nearest hospital or doctor to receive appropriate treatment to control the seizure.
Your baby''s body temperature should be lowered by using water compresses or / and antipyretic suppositories.
Will these spasms recur for my child in the future?
Most children do not have heat cramping attacks, but studies have proven that the likelihood of a child having repeated seizures is between 25-30%, and the percentage usually increases in children who start heat cramping attacks at an early stage (less than a year and a half of age), as well as children who They have a family history of these convulsions and also children who had a relatively low onset of heat cramps.
Do heat cramps mean that my child will have epilepsy in the future?
Having a single heat seizure or even repeatedly does not mean that he has epilepsy. Because most children, the problem ends automatically, and this problem is always associated with a high body temperature, unlike epilepsy, in which convulsive seizures occur without a high temperature.
And recently studies have shown that only 2-4% of cases of heat cramps may develop epilepsy, while symptoms of heat cramps completely disappear in the remaining percentage of children, 95%.
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