Hi Belfie,

Your poor little DS and also poor Mummy and Daddy. It is terrible to witness your child having a FC. My DD started having them at 12 months of age and has now had a total of 5. Unfortunately she is one of the unlucky one's that has gone on to have multiples. The majority of children that have them only ever have one. We have a really strong family history of them (I had one as an infant, so did another of my sisters and one of my sisters had them constantly until she was 5 and had to be medicated for them as they were a real problem for her). My Paed has told us that they normally happen near the beginning of an illness where you get a sharp spike in temperature. It isn't really about how high their temp goes, more about the sudden increase. We used to call an ambulance everytime as DD's go for longer than 5 minutes (but less than 10). One of the paramedics explained that it is like a computer rebooting. That is their little brain's are not able to deal with the sudden rise in temp and they switch off and restart. Now we are 'old hands' at it so as long as the fit doesn't go for too long and she becomes responsive, we no longer call the ambulance.

Just know that he will have no memory long term of this. Sometime's I think it is harder for us parents to have to witness this. As long as the fit is a classis FC then there are no long term side effects.

I hope that this is a one off for your little man.

Janie xxx