There is no difference in development or behaviour between children who have fever-related seizures after receiving vaccines and those who don’t, according to new research.
, which was published in the American Academy of Neurology on Wednesday, examines whether fever-associated seizures, or febrile seizures, that occur following a vaccination, affect children’s development.
For the study, researchers from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance in Australia compared 62 children who experienced febrile seizures within two weeks of receiving a vaccine to 70 children who had the same type of seizure from another cause and 90 children without a history of seizures.
Certified developmental assessors without prior knowledge of the children’s seizure history conducted cognitive, motor, and language function tests on all of the children. Parents also completed questionnaires about their children’s behaviour for the study.
What’s more, the study showed that other factors, including having febrile seizures before the age of one, a febrile seizure lasting longer than 15 minutes, and experiencing more febrile seizures after the first one were also not associated with developmental problems.
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