PEDIATRICS Vol. 42 No. 6 December 1968, pp. 1012
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Inter-Illness Prophylaxis in Febrile Convulsions

John P. Curran M.D.1

1 Department of Pediatrics, Jersey City Medical Center, Jersey City, New Jersey 07304

In his review of Febrile Conculsions by Dr. J . Gordon Millichap, in the August 1968 issue of Pediatrics, Dr. Randolph K. Byers briefly deals with the question of continuous or "inter-illness" prophylaxis versus the intermittent administration of anti-convulsant medication at the onset of a febrile illness. This is certainly one of the most difficult decisions facing the pediatrician confronted with a child who has experienced one or more "febrile" seizures. Too often, it seems to me, this subject generates heated polemics, highlighted by the expression of extreme views of equal rigidity, leaving the busy practitioner draped over a therapeutic barrel.