Like many parents, Britton and Trever Stoffel have learned how to care for their 3-year-old daughter, Collins.
More specifically, they’ve learned how to handle instances where Collins develops a fever, possibly shaking or convulsing and throwing up – common symptoms of a febrile seizure.
“I didn’t really know it was a thing before it happened the first time,” said Britton. “Hearing from another family that it happened to them and feeling like, ‘Oh gosh, that’s kind of scary.’ And then it happened to us.”
Zach Nolz, M.D., a family medicine specialist at Sanford Health in Luverne, Minnesota, said some of the fear for parents comes from the symptoms from these seizures.
