Background. Klein and colleagues have previously published data [1] on the frequency of febrile seizures after receipt of the measles-mumps-rubella-varicella (MMRV) vaccine. They demonstrated that the ...

When a child has a fever, their body can ache, they are restless and they just don't feel well. While a fever is a part of our natural response to infection, the fever itself can lead to complications ...

Occur only once per 24-hour period. Events that seem otherwise like febrile seizures but that violate these rules, usually by longer duration or by having multiple recurrences in 24 hours, are ...

When a high fever triggers seizures in a child, the experience can be very scary for the parents, but most of the time, the seizures will resolve on their own. Febrile seizures are convulsions that ...

The CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices voted eight to three for separate shots of MMR and chickenpox, instead of the combined MMRV vaccine. This change helps lower the chance of a ...

On an otherwise unordinary night in June 2021, Lindsay Moll heard a strange gurgling sound from her 17-month-old son's bedroom. “I opened the door to hear the gurgling noise even louder. ... I looked ...

Haley Sittner was providing some TLC to her then 16-month-old son, Henry, who had a cold caused by a viral infection with fever, when she drifted off to sleep with him in her arms. She was awoken by ...

"When I looked down at my baby with a grey face, blue lips, a limp body — completely unresponsive, not even twitching — I lost it," said Jamie Otis Dave Quinn is the Deputy News Director at PEOPLE. He ...

ST. JOSEPH COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — Saint Joseph Medical System is warning parents that febrile seizures can happen when your child has a high-grade fever. WSBT 22 spoke with a family that experienced ...

The wife of Bode Miller, a 2010 Olympic gold medalist, said on Instagram that the couple's 3-year-old son was hospitalized on Tuesday after suffering a febrile seizure. "Life is constantly walking a ...

Miller's wife Morgan shared their young son's health scare on Instagram. The wife of Olympic gold medalist skier Bode Miller is opening up about a health scare they faced with their 3-year-old son, ...