MONDAY, Apr 2 (HealthDay News) — Measles vaccines don’t boost the
risk of febrile seizures in children ages 4 to 6, according to a new
study.
Febrile seizures are brief, fever-related convulsions that are not
fatal and do not lead to mind damage, epilepsy or other seizure
disorders.
The study, conducted by a Kaiser Permanente Vaccine Study Center and
funded by a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, looked at
data from scarcely 87,000 children ages 48 to 83 months who perceived the
measles-mumps-rubella-chickenpox (MMRV) vaccine; a MMR vaccine and thevaricella vaccine for chickenpox, administered alone though on a same
day; or possibly a MMR or varicella vaccine alone.
There was no increasing risk of feverish seizures among a children
during a 6 weeks after they perceived any of a vaccinations,
according to a study, that appears in a stream emanate of a journalPediatrics.
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