Sheeza Basharatalmost 3 years ago

Benign Neonatal Convulsions

Benign neonatal convulsions are defined as seizures with onset after birth through day 28 in an otherwise healthy child with no other known medical or neurologic problems. Such cases may be familial or isolated. Psychomotor development should be normal for a full-term or near full-term infant with benign convulsions. Between seizures, findings on neurologic examination should be normal. Clinically, the seizures are frequent and brief, occasionally occurring many times within a day. The brief seizures are followed by a short or no postictal state. The episodes usually resolve within days but may continue for several months and have no neurologic sequelae.