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The fact provide strong evidence about how thousands of children and infants suffer great convulsions due to fever each year. Recent research found that Diazepam significantly reduced the possibility of great convulsions due to fever.

Approximately four percent of all American children suffer seizures of this type every year. The study enrolled more than 400 children are discussed in four years, who were given oral doses of Diazepam, a powerful sedative. Results showed that by using these drugs the frequency of febrile seizures caused by fever is significantly reduced.

The doctor stated that the attack does not hold much potential hazard to the child in the long run, but they can provide strong pressure to parents, and very rarely can increase the likelihood of developing epilepsy, especially among children who are naturally susceptible to this condition.

The authors behind the research and independent experts agree that there is a need to develop a new general treatment of febrile seizures, especially when other studies have shown that drugs commonly used in such cases for over 40 years actually provide little benefit if not even dangerous.

Today, most doctors use a single daily dose of phenobarbital for the children who have a history of seizures caused by fever in the first two years of their lives, hoping to prevent them in the future. But according to recent research phenobarbital can actually be harmful to children, making them lethargic and sometimes causes a decline in intellectual development over a long period of time.

Conversely, when physicians use a regular dose of Diazepam (also known as Valium) in the febrile seizure cases no major side effects in both the short and long term were observed. And the treatment far more effective than a general.

Of the approximately four million children born in the United States each year, nearly 160,000 have seizures due to fever. About a third of these children have conditions repeatedly. It is interesting to note that this condition is more typical for boys than girls, and is usually observed in the first two years of life.