| Acute neonatal hypocalcaemia results in tetany and convulsions, usually at 5 to 14 days of age. |
| Illnesses that most commonly cause febrile convulsions include viral upper respiratory infections such as flu, ear infections, or roseola. |
| Mega-doses of folic acid can produce convulsions, interfere with the anticonvulsant medication used by epileptics, and disrupt zinc absorption. |
| One girl in a blue sari was now shaking her long mane of hair backwards and forwards as she was seized by a series of impossible convulsions. |
| Two weeks later, he was referred back to hospital after becoming semi-conscious and having convulsions. |
| We excluded provoked seizures, acute symptomatic seizures, and febrile convulsions. |
