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Febrile seizure. A febrile seizure, also known as a fever fit or febrile convulsion, is a seizure associated with a high body temperature but without any serious underlying health issue. [ 1 ] They most commonly occur in children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years. [ 1 ][ 3 ] Most seizures are less than five minutes in duration, and the ...
The most common symptoms are fever, intense headache, vomiting and neck stiffness and occasionally photophobia. [1] Other symptoms include confusion or altered consciousness, nausea, and an inability to tolerate light or loud noises. [1] Young children often exhibit only nonspecific symptoms, such as irritability, drowsiness, or poor feeding. [1]
Scarlet fever. Scarlet fever, also known as scarlatina, is an infectious disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a Group A streptococcus (GAS). [3] It most commonly affects children between five and 15 years of age. [1] The signs and symptoms include a sore throat, fever, headache, swollen lymph nodes, and a characteristic rash. [1]
Infectious mononucleosis (IM, mono), also known as glandular fever, is an infection usually caused by the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV). [ 2 ][ 3 ] Most people are infected by the virus as children, when the disease produces few or no symptoms. [ 2 ] In young adults, the disease often results in fever, sore throat, enlarged lymph nodes in the neck ...
Rheumatic fever (RF) is an inflammatory disease that can involve the heart, joints, skin, and brain. [ 1 ] The disease typically develops two to four weeks after a streptococcal throat infection. [ 2 ] Signs and symptoms include fever, multiple painful joints, involuntary muscle movements, and occasionally a characteristic non- itchy rash known ...
Corticosteroids, Colchicine, Cimetidine. Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis and adenitis syndrome is a medical condition, typically occurring in young children, in which high fever occurs periodically at intervals of about 3–5 weeks, frequently accompanied by aphthous-like ulcers, pharyngitis and cervical adenitis (cervical ...
Intermittent fever is a type or pattern of fever in which there is an interval where temperature is elevated for several hours followed by an interval when temperature drops back to normal. [1] This type of fever usually occurs during the course of an infectious disease. [2] Diagnosis of intermittent fever is frequently based on the clinical ...
Common, all ages, [ 3 ] typically children under 5-years [ 5 ] Adenovirus infection is a contagious viral disease, caused by adenoviruses, commonly resulting in a respiratory tract infection. [ 1 ][ 10 ] Typical symptoms range from those of a common cold, such as nasal congestion, coryza and cough, to difficulty breathing as in pneumonia. [ 10 ...