A 2-year-old has a seizure with a fever of 39 degrees, lasting 2 minutes, and recovers fully. What is the diagnosis?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. Simple febrile convulsion
- Step 1: A brief generalised seizure with fever in a child aged 6 months to 5 years is a febrile convulsion.
Answer
Simple febrile convulsion.
Why not the others: Epilepsy presenting with a first fit, Meningitis and Brain tumour do not fit.
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