As the seizure passes, the child may feel drowsy or act disoriented. Seizures defined Physicians depend on parents' accurate observations of the child's behavior during seizures to treat them correctly. The better the medical history we can gather, the better the treatment. Partial seizures start in one area of the brain, and may or may not spread to the whole brain. Parents may notice that only one part of the body, such as the hand, twitches.
Generalized seizures appear to start on the entire surface of the brain at the same time.
Afterward, the child may be extremely tired. Less dramatic than the tonic-clonic, this type of seizure involves staring spells that last less than 30 seconds. Seizures linked to high fevers usually don't require treatment. Febrile seizures, which occur in about 5 percent of children ages 6 months to 6 years, are generalized seizures that accompany fevers of over 101 degrees. Excluding febrile seizures, doctors are able to identify causes for about half of all other seizures.