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Study: Fever-associated seizures after vaccination do not affect development, behavior
A seizure associated with a fever is called a febrile seizure. Now, a new study has found that there is no difference in developmental and behavioral outcomes for children who have febrile seizures after vaccination, children who have febrile seizures not associated with vaccination, and children who have never had a seizure. Febrile seizures are also known as febrile convulsions. “This is reassuring news for parents,” said study author Lucy Deng, MBBS, of the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance (NCIRS) in Sydney, Australia. “A febrile seizure can occur following vaccination and understandably can be quite distressing to parents. It can also cause parents to lose confidence in future vaccinations. Now, parents will be relieved to hear that having a febrile seizure following vaccination does not affect the child's development.”
Developmental outcomes after vaccine-proximate febrile seizures in children. doi.org/10.1212/WNL.0000000000009876
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