Influenza, one of the most common diseases is also one of the most ancient. Described for the first time by Hippocrate in 412 before Christ, influenza also touches the children. Influenza is first of all an illness, benign, which does not require, except complication, the prescript of antibiotic. His complication...

Although the place of the lukewarm bath in the armory of used means when a child has fever, tends to diminish in the medical articles of these last years, she remains important in publications intended for the general public. The reflex to bath very present rest in...

Fevered convulsions happen between the age of 6 months and of 5 years (with a peak between 1 and 3 years) for the upper fever in 38 C, at an unharmed child of sharp or chronic neurological affection. They are considered to be simple fevered convulsions if they are generalised, of...

In our culture, fever has a negative, worrying connotation: divine punishment, named as such in the Bible, often linked to Hell and to Devil, alias Satan, responsible for illness, often antechamber of death in the Middle Ages, of bad harbinger before the advent of antibiotics. Of our...

The hyperthermie of the child must be treated only to improve the comfort of the sick man. No scientific proof of the advantageous effect of antipyr tiques on the prevention of hyperthermal convulsions allows to justify this treatment in a systematic way. AFSSAPS published a bet in January, 2005 in the point on fever of...