In the pediatric emergency department of children’s specialty hospitals, no less than dozens of children are admitted to the hospital every day because of convulsions. For children’s convulsions, what knowledge as parents should need to know to help the children. The main causes of children’s convulsions: febrile convulsions, epilepsy, electrolyte disorders, etc. Huang Yujuan, Department of Cardiology, Shanghai Children’s Hospital, Shanghai, China Febrile convulsions are the most common cause of convulsions, and generally some patients have a family history, i.e., the mother and father had convulsions when they were children with high fever, and often the children also have the possibility of convulsions, while another part of the patients can have no family history. Convulsions of high fever (mostly of simple type) often occur on the first day of high fever, i.e. within 24 hours of fever, during the stage of sudden rise of body temperature, if parents are not aware of the child’s fever, or are not equipped with physical cooling after taking antipyretic drugs for known fever, but are afraid of the child getting cold and cover the clothes tightly, some children will have convulsions, which are manifested as loss of consciousness, twitching of limbs, closed teeth, purple lips, etc., and some children Some children may have incontinence, but the convulsions usually stop on their own within a few minutes. Emergency treatment of convulsions in general hospitals: you can use tongue depressor and other things to protect the tongue and avoid tongue bite; appropriate amount of oxygen, measure body temperature (anal temperature is recommended), and apply antispasmodic drugs such as luminal. Improve laboratory tests to clarify: the cause of convulsions, such as cranial CT to exclude intracranial occupying lesions, EEG examination 10-14 days after the onset of convulsions, and examination according to the characteristics of the primary disease: blood routine, electrolytes, etc. Note to families: Generally, febrile convulsions are common in the simple type, that is, a fever course only once, often within the first 24 hours of fever, parents just need to carefully monitor the first day, generally after the steady rise in body temperature, the occurrence of convulsions is rare, the time of seizure is often in the chills (rapid rise in body temperature period), part of the child can complain of cold, parents hear the child call cold, see or feel the child’s hands and feet cold, it Habitually cover the child with blankets or more clothes, close doors and windows, etc., often the body temperature can rise sharply, because before 6 years old children, the child’s brain is not yet developed, the cerebral cortex regulation function is not perfect, there will be convulsions. So when the child’s body temperature rises, pay attention to measures such as timely heat dissipation, drinking water, temperature measurement, taking antipyretics, and physical cooling.