Febrile Seizure: Role of Antipyretics

The 1993 International League Against Epilepsy defined a febrile seizure as "an epileptic seizure occurring in childhood associated with fever, but without evidence of intracranial infection or defined cause. Seizures with fever in children who have experienced a previous nonfebrile seizure are excluded."In other words, febrile seizures are seizures that occur in febrile children between the ages