EVALUATION OF SERUM IRON AND ZINC LEVELS IN CHILDREN WITH FEBRILE SEIZURES | ||
| Al-Azhar Journal of Pediatrics | ||
| Article 6, Volume 24, Issue 4, October 2021, Pages 2464-2474 PDF (125.38 K) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/azjp.2021.223333 | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: febrile seizures (FS) are the commonest cause of convulsions in children during the first five years of life, many factors can exacerbate the occurrence of febrile seizures. Objectives: This study was done to evaluate the serum zinc and iron levels in children with febrile seizures. Patients and methods: this was a prospective case-control study that was including 120 children aged 6-60 months attend to Al-Azhar university hospital Asyut in the period from August 2020 to August 2021, with fever, sixty patient of them has fever with convulsions (case group) and the other sixty patient has fever without convulsions (control group). Both groups fulfill the inclusion and exclusion criteria of the study and subjected to complete history, physical examination, routine investigations and serum iron and zinc levels evaluation. Results: our study reveals that serum iron and zinc levels are significantly deficient in case group than control group (40.89±21.0), (59.96±17.51) vs (71.60±39.58), (94.22±12.50) respectively with P value (0.000) for both. Also the hematologic indices and serum ferritin were significantly lower in case group than control group. Conclusions: Serum iron and zinc levels are significantly lower in patients with febrile seizures than febrile patients without seizures. | ||
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