A febrile seizure is a generalized tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure
that occurs in some young children as a response to a high fever.
Febrile seizures are usually associated with rapidly rising fevers,
and typically occur early in the fever rather than later. Nearly
all children recover fully.
Review Date: 12/21/2010
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
