Febrile seizure is the common seizure age related, occurring between age of 6 month to 5 year. And the most of them is self-limited, it is believed as a benign seizure. The pathogenesis of febrile seizure is uncertain and preventive measure of
febrile
seizure is still controversial. On addition to this, the causes of the recurrence of febrile seizure and the later development of epilepsy, even the incidnec eis not high. as well as the preventive remedial measures are not established. 12 to 25%
of
victims experienced febrile seizure are on the risk of recurrent seizure when they are feverish and 2 to 4 % of them may develop to various epilepsies such as generalized tonic clonic seizure, partial seizure, absence, myoclonic, Rolandic
seizure,
and
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, atypical absence, benign occipital spikes and juvenile myoclonic epilepsy.
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