Fear of febrile seizure should not lead to vaccination hesitancy in healthy children

Fear of febrile seizure should not lead to vaccination hesitancy in healthy children

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Other treatments

Age

Pediatric

Topic Area

Paediatrics

Any vaccination can cause fever and febrile seizure. This may lead parents to hesitate in following the vaccination programme. Seizures in post vaccination fever are rare and do not differ from other febrile seizures during infectious diseases.

Sources

1. Postvaccination Febrile Seizure Severity and Outcome. Deng L, Gidding H, Macartney K, Crawford N, Buttery J, Gold M, Richmond P, Wood N Pediatrics. 2019 May;143(5):e20182120. doi: 10.1542/peds.2018-2120.
2. Febrile seizures: risks, evalutation and prognosis. Smith DK, Sadler KP, Benedum M.Am . Fam Physician. 2019 Apr 1;99(7):445-450
3. When development is at stake Fear the disease, not the vaccine. Charuta Joshi, Liu Lin Thio Neurology Jul 2020, 95 (3) 103-104; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009882
4. Developmental outcomes following vaccine-proximate febrile seizures in children Deng L, Wood N, Macartney K, Gold M, Crawford N, Buttery J, Richmond P, Barton B Neurology Jul 2020, 95 (3) e226-e238; DOI: 10.1212/WNL.0000000000009876

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