What Does My Child’s Dravet Syndrome Look Like?
Typically, your child’s first year of life is when seizures first might appear. A fever frequently coexists with the initial seizure. Following the initial seizure, further seizures take place without a fever. On one side of their body, they may experience jerking muscular movements during the seizure.
Other Dravet syndrome characteristics include:
- Seizures to last more than five minutes.
- Throughout infancy and the early years of youth, seizures occur about every two weeks.
- numerous varieties of seizures occurs.
Are There Other Seizures Triggers besides Fever
Other seizure triggers include:
- Illnesses and infections.
- Increase in body temperature unrelated to a fever, such as after taking a warm or hot bath, being in hot weather, or exerting oneself physically.
- Photosensitivity, such as that caused by patterns of flashing lights.
- Emotional tension or elation.