What Precautions Should Be Taken for Infant Convulsions?

Question

What are the daily care and medical precautions to take when a newborn shows symptoms of convulsions?

Answer

1. Perinatal Health Care: Protecting the fetus and newborn from oxygen deprivation, birth injuries, infections, and other damages, especially preventing newborn asphyxia and hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy.
2. Genetic Counseling: Consult on severe genetic diseases that may lead to epilepsy, and perform prenatal diagnosis or newborn screening if necessary, to decide whether to terminate the pregnancy or start early treatment.
3. Prevention and Treatment of Neurological Disorders: Timely treatment of pediatric neurological diseases to reduce sequelae.
4. Management of High Fever Seizures: Pay adequate attention to high fever seizures in infancy and childhood, striving to prevent seizure occurrences; medication should be administered immediately during an attack.