Patient's question:
Convulsions caused by high fever, sleepwalking: How many days of phenobarbital should be taken? Age and duration of this episode: The child is 5 and a half years old. Since May, they have experienced high fever convulsions and sleepwalking (sudden awakening, wide-eyed sitting up, restlessness, walking out of the room, terrifying facial expressions, staring, sometimes shouting, but still in a dazed state, and may also show pale complexion, rapid breathing, and sweating) after falling asleep every day. Sometimes once, sometimes up to 6 or 7 times, each lasting 5 to 10 minutes. After taking traditional Chinese medicine, the frequency was controlled to once a night, but it could not be completely eradicated. For more than twenty days, they recently went to a hospital in Shanghai for an electroencephalogram (sleep. Clear).Doctor's answer:
Convulsions caused by high fever, need to take luminal temporarily when fever.