Forever Five: How a sudden fever can turn deadly for a child (2010)

Febrile convulsions affect 5 percent of children between 6-months and 5-years, with most outgrowing them after that, but having just one puts a child at greater risk of having another one.

Roman and Betty Karpishka tell NEWS10 the tragic story of the 5-year old son Stefan, who drowned in the bathtub after suffering a Febrile seizure.

Lydia Kulbida reports.

Originally aired March 2, 2010

READ: Forever Five: How a sudden fever can turn deadly for a child: http://www.wten.com/global/Story.asp?s=12077514
READ: Febrile seizures fact sheet: http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/febrile_seizures/detail_febrile_seizures.htm

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[77tahirkhan]

cant stop my tears, so sorry for your lost, my 20 months old had one last 3days i was so scared, i thought i lost her, yesterday i put her in the bath and i left her for about 3min now im really scared and worry about her i will never leave her alone for a second never never ...

thanks for sharing

[jcavfish]

so sorry for your loss!! i wish your family well!

[vero331]

2 days ago my 2 year old had a seizure out of nowhere but after his bath i was so scared im sorry for your lost and i thank you for posting this to let us open our eyes. i hope you and your family are doing better. :( this makes me sad.

[MrPeter0730]

I am sooo sorry for your loss. I am aware of febrile seizures now that my son has had 2 in the last 2 months both from an ear infection that caused a fever and spike in temp. It was very scary. I will never get used to this. I really feel for you!!! Oh funny the first one happned a week after his MMR vaccination...

[MrPeter0730]

I am sooo sorry for your loss. I am aware of febrile seizures now that my son has had 2 in the last 2 months both from an ear infection that caused a fever and spike in temp. It was very scary. I will never get used to this. I really feel for you!!!

[BrookNom08]

STOP THE VACCINES!

[yesilovesart]

hey man im so sorry for your lost . my baby just had one and it scaired me so much i feel for you guys im sorry