AN OBSERVATIONAL RESEARCH FOR HYPOCALCEMIC FITS IN KIDS WHO ARRIVE AT A TERTIARY CARE HOSPITAL WITH AFEBRILE CONVULSIONS.
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afebrile seizures, serum calcium, hypocalcemia.
Abstract
Introduction: A seizure without fever is known as an afebrile seizure. Hypocalcemia is the most frequent metabolic anomaly producing afebrile seizures in children. Children with hypocalcemia may not exhibit any symptoms at all or they may exhibit a variety of signs and symptoms. Very young patients are more prone to exhibit symptoms including weakness, feeding issues, facial spasms, jitteriness, or seizures because they are unable to appropriately describe their symptoms verbally.
Aims & Objectives: To ascertain how frequently afebrile seizures in children are associated with hypocalcemic fits.
Materials & Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study in which a total of 106 children presented during a span of 06 months i.e. May 2019 to November 2019 with the afebrile seizure of age 1-60 months in the pediatric department of the Children Hospital Pims Islamabad were included. The patient's blood sample was drawn at the time of presentation and sent to the hospital laboratory for biochemical analysis of serum calcium.
Results & Findings: Age ranged from 1 to 60 months in this study, with a mean age of 23.28 12.56 months. The bulk of the 80 patients (75.47%) were infants under the age of one year. 40 of the 106 patients were female and 66 (62.26%) were male, making a male to female ratio of 1.65:1. According to this study, there are 15 (14.15%) hypocalcemic fits per 1,000 children who arrive with afebrile convulsions.
Conclusion: This study came to the conclusion that children who appear with afebrile seizures frequently experience hypocalcemic fits.
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Mubashir Raza
Consultant Paediatrician, RHQ Hospital Skardu, Pakistan.
Muhammad Azhar
Consultant Paediatrician, RHQ Hospital Skardu, Pakistan.
Arshad Ali Lakho
Assistant Professor Pediatric Medicine, People's University of Medical & Health Science, Nawabshah, Pakistan.
Ishrat Fatima
Consultant Paediatrician, RHQ Hospital Skardu, Pakistan.
Abdul Raziq
Consultant Paediatrician, District Children Specialist Women & Children Hospital Kohat. Pakistan.
Zulfiqar Ali Dahri
Consultant Paediatrician, Institute of Mother & Child Health Nawabshah, Pakistan.