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The most important thing is to prevent a fit in the first place by cooling a feverish child using paracetamol or ibuprofen and by dressing the child coolly. If a child is experiencing a rapid and uncontrollable rise in temperature more drastic measures can beused to reduce temperature such as putting the child in a bath of tepid water andfanning the child.The treatment for a fit is toleave the child alone, having placed him or her into a safe position lyingon their front so that they are not likely to inhale vomit. Diazepam is available as a rectal treatment to stop fits in children who are prone to fits and other more powerful anti-epileptic drugs can be given in hospital if that is necessary.Overallabout one in twenty children will have at least one febrile fit and of those one in three may have repeated fits during childhood.
These figures apply to children between the ages of six months and five years; fits occurringin children outside thoseage limits may have other causes and so theoutlook there depends on the exact diagnosis.
