Febrile Seizures in Children and it’s Association with Bacterial Infection - A Hospital based Study.

ABSTRACT

Introduction: Simple febrile seizures are the most commonconvulsive disorder of childhood. As bacterial infection andfebrile seizures are common during early childhood, it waspostulated that some association may exist between these twoclinical conditions. So this research was undertaken to studythe association of bacterial infection with febrile seizures inchildren.Material and Methods: 100 children between 6 months to05 years of age admitted with febrile seizures were includedin this study. Patients were divided into three age groups agegroup 6 months to 1 years, age group more than 1 to 2 yearsand age group more than 2 years to 5 years. Variables includingage, sex, type of seizure, associated symptoms, family historyof seizure or epilepsy, past history of seizures, laboratory testincluding blood and urine cultures were recorded.Results: Total 15% had positive blood culture. Streptococcuspneumoniae was the most common organism in blood culture.Total 7% had positive Urine culture. E coli was found to becommon organism in urine culture.Conclusion: Even though viruses form major precipitatingagents for febrile convulsions, bacterial infection should beruled out in all children presenting with febrile seizures.